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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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…
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…
Predatory journal clones of India’s Current Science spring up
An online predatory journal “Current Science“, which is a clone of the Current Science journal published by the Current Science Association, Bengaluru in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences,…
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…
At last, Jeffrey Beall reveals the reasons for shutting down his blog on predatory journals
Unlike what most people had guessed, it was not a lawsuit from any of the predatory journal publishers that forced Jeffrey Beall, Librarian at the University of Colorado Denver…
Predatory journals in India make desperate bid to gain authenticity
One more evidence that India has a huge and growing number of predatory journal publishers comes from the India office of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Since…
I am still trying to figure out what my new research agenda will be: Jeffrey Beall
Contrary to what Cabell’s International, a publishing services company, had said in a tweet on January 17 that Jeffrey Beall has been working with them as a consultant since 2015…
