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Posted on April 3, 2019April 4, 2019

Hyderabad-based OMICS fined $50 million for ‘unfair, deceptive business practices’

A court in the U.S. has slapped a $50 million fine on Hyderabad-based OMICS International, which publishes over 700 questionable scientific journals, many of which appear predatory, for “unfair and…

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Posted on March 14, 2018March 15, 2018

OMICS to translate all Open Access journal papers to Indian languages

The Hyderabad-based “predatory journal” publisher OMICS International’s venture to translate papers to a few Indian languages will not be restricted to OMICS and Pulsus Group of journals it owns. Plan…

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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 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 July 14, 2017February 26, 2018

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,…

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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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Posted on June 13, 2017June 14, 2017

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…

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