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Posted on March 22, 2018April 2, 2018

897 predatory journals identified in UGC’s white list

Only 112 of the 1,009 randomly chosen university-recommended journals included in the UGC white list were found to be standard.  The remaining 897 journals were found to dubious or predatory.…

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Posted on February 22, 2018March 14, 2018

Hyderabad-based OMICS group to translate their journal papers to Indian languages

Predatory journal publishing in India is gaining more ground, legitimacy, and credibility. The CEO of OMICS Group, a “potential, possible, or probable” predatory journal publisher, has signed an MoU with the…

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Posted on November 25, 2017November 27, 2017

Injunction against Hyderabad’s OMICS group to stop ‘deceptive practices’

In a preliminary injunction, a U.S. federal court has ordered Hyderabad-based OMICS to remove all misleading claims from its websites. This includes removing the names of eminent scientists who never…

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Posted on September 14, 2017November 27, 2017

UGC’s revised white list has 111 more predatory journals

The increasing number of predatory journals spotted in the UGC list of approved journals is a clear indication that UGC is not equipped to produce and sustain a journal white…

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Posted on September 6, 2017September 7, 2017

Researchers at Harvard, Mayo Clinic too publish in predatory journals

Twenty-seven per cent of over 1,900 papers published in predatory journals came from researchers based in India. But a large number of scientists in the developed countries too are willing…

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Posted on September 5, 2017September 15, 2017

UGC’s revised white list has 71 active predatory journals

The inclusion of predatory journals in the approved list makes a mockery of the entire exercise and gives the predatory journals the UGC stamp of authenticity, which they proudly flaunt…

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Posted on August 26, 2017September 5, 2017

Now, more predatory journals get indexed in PubMed

The PubMed database managers have irresponsibly allowed it to become a repository of citations to predatory journal articles. Among other things, the next time you see a questionable journal proudly…

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Posted on June 17, 2017September 1, 2017

Cabell’s: “Our predatory journal Blacklist differs from Jeffrey Beall’s”

  Five months after Jeffrey Beall, librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, shut down his widely consulted blog (Scholarly Open Access) that listed predatory journals and publishers, Cabell’s International based in…

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