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Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI)

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...

American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD)

The " Founding Director " of this "American Research Institute" is Md. Mamin Ullah . He registered the domain name aripd.org with the address Western Education, 5/ka, PC Culture Housing Society, Ring Road Shamoli, Dhaka, 1207, Bangladesh, +880.1778964703, mamin_83@hotmail.com. The "institute's" website gives an address of 3942 Tulane Avenue, Madison, WI 53714. Google Maps displays a nice residential neighborhood there. Md. Mamin Ullah also is Director (Publication and Production) for the Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), 49, Senpara Parbata. In that capacity, he is one of the " key people " publishing another slew of flaky journals . His address as listed there is Mirpur-10, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh. More distressing news was at http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/04/28/more-junk-journals-from-a-bogus-research-center/ American Review of Mathematics and Statistics This "American Review" has no named editor and a putative editorial board whose ...