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Aug 4, 2020 · 1 Recommendation. Keira O'Kane. Ulster University. also received this email on the 9th August, assuming it is a scam. Cite. Sumit Verma. I also received it. The email mentions my most recent...
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In 2020, OMICS changed hundreds of URLs and overhauled websites and typesetting to remove references to OMICS. It also introduced a ‘Hilaris’ brand. Although the titles of the rebranded journals remained listed on the OMICS web pages, mentions of OMICS are absent on the Hilaris web pages, as well as those for other subsidiaries. The Journal of Surg...
One tactic predatory journals have used is to mimic longstanding legitimate journals online (or sometimes to acquire the titles). Predators rely on the journal’s reputation to collect fees1 without providing scholarly services. In August, scholar Anna Abalkina at the Free University of Berlin reported that a list of COVID-19 publications maintained...
Why go to all this trouble? One possibility is that OMICS is seeding fledgling journals to attract paying customers. Also, OMICS has footnotes in some plagiarized articles claiming that work was presented at predatory conferences, falsely suggesting that these are vibrant, professional events. (The FTC judgement found that such conferences are a si...
Predatory publishing has flourished as more reputable journals charge authors publication fees and scholars remain under intense pressure to publish. OMICS is just the tip of the iceberg of a swiftly evolving fraudulent business model. Following the ruling against OMICS, economist Derek Pyne at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada, remark...
Instead of repeatedly severing heads for new ones to regrow, policy that combats predatory publishing should focus on starving the Hydra of resources. Here’s what we recommend. Audit peer reviews.To determine whether a journal is predatory, evaluators rely on many ‘indirect’ clues, such as dead links on websites, poor English grammar, or lack of li...
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Mar 22, 2017 · By midway through the decade, researchers were assaulted by spam from journals of questionable legitimacy asking them to submit a paper or to be an editor, even in areas of research where they...
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Jan 19, 2021 · If they claim you are invited, find out whether they cover travel/accommodation and conference fees. If they tell you that you have to pay conference fees, this is a scam. If they say that the conference is free, but they do not cover the trip, it's an orange flag (but not necessarily a scam).
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