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.…
Category: predatory journals
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…
Predatory journals: UGC’s greyish white list is a curse to science
The Academic Performance Indicators (API) system introduced by the UGC is singularly responsible for the sharp growth of predatory journals in India. The white list it introduced to stem the…
Indian scientific community should act now to stop the journal paper translation centres
Starting centres employing thousands to translate into Indian languages the papers published in “predatory” journals is singularly aimed at gaining legitimacy for a fraudulent practice. Keeping the predatory journal industry in…
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…
How to spot predatory journals
Spotting predatory journals is quite easy in most cases. By default, most predatory journals have at least a few red flags listed here that should warn researchers of the true…
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…
Four papers from CSIR, ICAR labs retracted for fake peer reviews
The journal publisher Frontiers has retracted four papers from NIIST and CTCRI, which are Thiruvananthapuram-based CSIR and ICAR labs respectively, once it found evidence of fake peer reviews. Routine check on…
