Why India’s National Programme on panchagavya is worrying
Questionable work published in predatory journals is being showcased by the Department of AYUSH as evidence of the benefits of panchagavya! No, it is not bullshit. It is Panchagavya. “One…
Category: predatory journals
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,…
Why I disagree with Nobel Laureates when it comes to career advice for scientists
Merlin Crossley, UNSW The measures by which we judge scientists are always under intense scrutiny. For those who hit the peak of their field, there’s the Nobel Prize. But across…
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…
IISER Thiruvananthapuram Director: There’s more to it than meets the eye
In response to the Faulty IISER-Tvm Facebook post that I shared about the lack of action against Prof. V. Ramakrishnan, the Director of IISER Thiruvananthapuram, despite my article pointing out…
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…
