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The website of the group's Journal of Medical Toxicology and Clinical Forensic Medicine says it all: Forensic analysis studies the arranged information with respect to events of occurred crime. Forensic analysis is used to determine and understand the outlines of the total activities. The data from claim organizations or from their original files is stated to as arranged data. Formless data in comparison is taken from statement and applications or from mobile expedients. Email 3/22/16: Dear Dr. David H. Kaye, Greetings from Journal of Medical Toxicology and Clinical Forensic Medicine Hope you are doing well I wonder if you could write a short review or a short commentary based on your previous article entitled “ The good, the bad, the ugly: The NAS report on strengthening forensic science in America ” for publication in upcoming issue. ... It would be grateful if you would submit your manuscript by April 8th, 2016. If your manuscript is ready, submit it NOW . We will process an...

This Indian publisher “is organizing scholarly, online international journal which aims to Publishes peer reviewed original research result oriented Survey papers in the fields of Engineering, Science and Promote Innovative Technology.” Actually, there are ten "international journals" (12/28/16) of "recent trends," "emerging trends," "new trends," "research," "resedarch and development," and "scientific research" that aim to publish papers on any possible topic in science, mathematics, and engineering. A payment of 50 or 60 dollars buys a foreign author up to six pages of space and a certificate “in recognition of the publication of the paper.” International Journal of Research and Development in Physics Clicking on the "latest issue" of the International Journal of Research and Development in Physics (IJRDP) takes on to the archives. Every "volume" of the journal (one for 2014, 2015, and 2016) ...

Beall is uncompromisingly negative , calling IMR "complete rubbish" from "a completely fake medical journal that falsely claims to be based in Washington, D.C." He maintains that this "hybrid" journal, as it calls itself, has "no subscribers — the entire operation is a scam [that may be] connected to the predatory publisher called KEI Journals. KEI claims it’s based in California, but they use a mail forwarding service there." The Author Guide (viewed 10/17/16) states that "[t]he Internal Medicine Review grants authors rights to publish their work in any form for any scholarly purpose." That's great -- authors get to pay at least $1250 (unless they qualify for fee reductions on unspecified grounds) to give away their copyright to a "journal" that has no known circulation. The emails purport to be "confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed." In case you don...

Herald International Research Journals and Herald Scholarly Open Access are on Beall's list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers." The publisher's website (12/26/16) is consistent with this assessment. Despite a Virginia address, it has this mission statement: Herald Scholarly Open Access is a leading, internationally publishing house in the fields of Sciences. Our mission is to provide an access to knowledge globally. We provide high-quality articles to the scientific community and we strive for your research improvement and distinguishment throughout the world. We all could use some distinguishment, but if that is not enough, HSOA's vision includes "A Platform to highlight quality exploration work to the biggest possible swarm over development points secured under the field of medicine." One of its medical journals had a dog on its board of editors  . Journal of Forensic, Legal and Investigative Sciences Th...

Ironically, Scitech Central posted a comment -- no, an advertisement -- on the blog Forensic Science, Statistics and the Law. That -- and the content of its website -- earns it a place here. Many of the brands with "Central" in the name are OMICS in disguise, but this one could be an independent voice in the cacophony of pseudo-journals. It is hard to know, inasmuch as Scitech Central uses a virtual post office in the US rather than its true address. The putative address on its website (12/26/16) is "SciTech Central Inc., 340 S Lemon Ave # 2725, Walnut, CA 91789, United States." The 340 S. Lemon Ave.  address is that of a company that sells an "Online Postal Mailbox" to "View Postal Mail Online. Anytime. Anywhere." Get a real US address to receive postal mail. View your mail online without forwarding. Manage your postal mail no matter where you live. Mail sent to the above address goes to Virtual Post Mail's building, and "your mail wi...

Would you trust this individual or group with your words? The startup website (viewed 11/17/16) includes remarks such as these? "Gavin Publishers is a newly launched international open access organization with all its journals are in the initial stages of developments." "Gavin Publishers ... publishes all kinds of manuscripts ... from the fields related to CLinical, Biology and Medical especially. Our passion to serve the scientific community drove us ... . We strive hard to spread the knowledge ... . We welcome ... people involved in and around the fields of Clinical, Biological and Medical, with open arms to come forward to share and to gain the knowledge on an open access platform. [W]e can build a huge platform ... ." Although "[a]rticle processing charges are required for accepted manuscripts in order to manage the publication costs," the charges are not listed. Like the Academicians Research Center email , some of Gavin's emails close with an...

In May 2012, Beall reported that OMICS created this name for 53 instant journals and was "spamming tens of thousands of academics, hoping to recruit some of them for the new journals’ editorial boards." The domain scitechnol.com is registered to Srinu Babu G, OMICS International, 5716 Corsa Ave, Suite 110 Westlake, Los Angeles CA 91362-7354, +16.506189889, email@omicsgroup.net. You can obtain the same geographic address from InCorp Services, Inc ., for $99 a year (if you pay for multiple years).. The About Us webpage (11/27/17) advertises "global presence ... to take the high quality research work close to a wide range of ... communities." Too close for comfort perhaps. SciTechnol claims to have "104 Hybrid Access online Journals, ... 1500 Editorial team, 2 Million readers, ... More than 50,000 Facebook Likes." Journal of Forensic Toxicology and Pharmacology (JFTP) The first Scitechnol journal that spammed me (on 12/20, 21, 22, 26/16) was the Journal of F...

Remedy Publications describes itself (12/22/16) as a "mega journal." Its journals bear names like "American Journal ___," "World Journal ___," "Global Journal ___," and "Clinics In ___." Harvard Medical School professor Shuji Ogina tweeted (3/11/16) "Remedy Publications LLC is a horrible publisher that keeps sending me countless spam emails. Please do not support this company." Beall writes that "Remedy Publications claims it’s based in California, but I think it is probably a new brand from the Hyderabad, India-based publisher OMICS International. They botched their California address on their website ... . ... Once again, UTSA’s George Perry is listed as one of the editors. He serves on more predatory editorial boards than anyone." Clinics in Oncology Not many bona fide medical journals call themselves "mega journals," but the website (7/2/16) reports: " Clinics in Oncology Journal is a peer r...

For suggestions that this group or individual is more of center for promoting fraud than ideas, see Beall: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/09/questionable-oa-publisher-launches-with-a-clever-website-and-52-new-journals/ ; http://sacsanua.blogspot.com/2013/01/suspicious-academic-conferences-and.html Paul Jump, Research Intelligence -- 'Predators' Who Lurk in Plain Cite, Aug. 2, 2012, https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/research/research-intelligence-predators-who-lurk-in-plain-cite/420731.article The latter article (on the Times Higher Education site) reported that in 2012, the indexing service Scopus had rejected the CPI journals and would ask that it not use its name in marketing materials. CPI has not honored this request. (An email of 11/15/16, sent by a Micah Coleman (micahcoleman44@yahoo.com) but signed by "Dr. J. Sabrina Mims-Cox, The Chief Editor, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS)," states that "the journal is under the i...

The Canadian Center of Science and Education "publishes many open-access journals and ... is now threatening to sue [Jeffrey Beall] for alleged defamation and libel." 1 / Beall , an academic librarian, lists it among the swelling ranks of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers." Journal of Management and Sustainability Less than a week after I posted a 38-year-old book review on the Social Science Research Network, a Maple Xiao pounced, sending an email for the Journal of Management and Sustainability . Apparently, "management and sustainability" embraces a wide swath of subjects. (The book review asked whether it was proper for a former prosecutor to disclose previously private information about the subjects of the criminal investigations, and it questioned the justifications given by former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski for some of his decisions.) Email 12/23/15: I have the honor to read your pap...

Biomed Central has been said to offer a cornucopia of " low quality " journals. According to one report ( BioMed Central Accepts and Quickly Publishes an Obvious Junk Paper ), "Biomed Central has published an obviously bogus scholarly article that apparently uses the 'template-plagiarism' technique, crafting a new article from an earlier one, changing the data and some of the text." Despite what seems to be flagrant plagiarism, the Biomed Central article remains on the web as 7/1/16. In 2015, BMC Medicine published an article on the spam "associated with the rise of predatory journals (journals exploiting gold open access, providing no or non-sensible peer review, undercutting standard article processing charges, while frequently publishing rubbish)." It was an N-of-1 study on the number of invitations to submit articles received "received by one of the authors (DM) over a 1-year period." David Moher & Anubhav Srivastava, You Are In...