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Scholarly Pages (previously The Scientific Pages?): "You can submit as you write"

All indicators are negative. The website text includes the following delicts: ⊘ "Scholarly Pages provide track for a variety of international scientific journals to access the latest updates in the interrelated fields” ⊘ “Each journal has the ... experts' team providing support and guidance ... to improvise the submitted papers ... .” ⊘ “Peer Reviewer carried out by the scholarly peers play a crucial role in ensuring the scientific integrity of the scholarly record entailed with us.” ⊘ “The individuality status and exertion habits of the lead editor play major roles in setting the editorial pitch.” The Annals of Atoms and Molecules solicits papers on such topics as Bohr Model, Chemical Bonding Explained, and Formation. The entire journal consists of a five-page article from Hungary (László Nemes (2017) Carbon Vapor and Carbon Plasma Infrared Emission. Ann Atoms Molecules 1(1):1-5). The publisher's alleged address is 1805 N Carson St, Carson City. Nevada. Zillo identifies ...

Scholarena feels pleasure to publish names of toes

Scholarena promises to “enlighten your knowledge” with such journals as JMSA ( Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Analysis ), which “publishes significant and important research from all area [sic] of mathematical and statistical science fields such as pure and applied mathematics ... .” It might not seem surprising that a mathematics journal would publish papers on pure mathematics, but the logos on the journal’s website show a nice microscope, test tubes and skeletal structural formulas for a few organic molecules. Maybe that is the publisher’s idea of mathematics, for the website states that this mathematics journal “aims . . for sharing new empirical findings and novel ideas in the emerging field of clinical, health and medical professions education.” The articles in press, the current issue, and the archive can be described by the null set {}. For all the graphics, the journal is empty. It has an editorial board of one person. Or does it? The editor is said to be “Mais Nijim,...

SOAOJ Publishing, where "outstand care is taken"

SOAOJ Publishing advertises "Medical Science Open Access Open Journals" and "Engineering Open Access Open Journals" with titles as "Accident Anaesthetic and Critical care Open Access Open Journal (AACCOAOJ)" and "Mathematics and Humanities Engineering Open Access Open Journal (MHEOAOJ)." I guess that is better than publishing open access closed journals. The homepage floridly explains (4/4/18) S Open access Open journals-(SOAOJ) ... provides a platform to publish ... in all areas of sciences. We accept scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty . ... It is accomplished to carry out the highest excellence ... . It belongs to an intellectual group ... reflecting ethos of plumbing the deepest details and unexplored region of fields. ... S Open access Open journals-(SOAOJ) empowers you with endless scientific research information and helps you in your progress of discovering the world around you. According to our belief, there is no b...

Pegasi Media Group's Parasitic Spam

This posting is not directed at a publisher -- flaky, predatory, or otherwise. Its subject is Pegasi Media Group. The group seems to sell specialized email lists to spammers. Like a parasite, it advertise these lists through thinly disguised comments in blogs. (The ones I purged from this blog are at the end of this posting.) The firm's prose is reminiscent of some flaky journals. The webpage on "Our Obligations" includes the following promise about "Integrity and Clarity": Transparent in our business, transactions and honest in our research studies. As clarity is one of the major issues that prick the minds of both website owners and customers, we assure you that we are transparent and honest with our work. We do not keep our customers or clients in the dark but make them aware of every progress. For all this talk of transparency, the individuals behind Pegasi and the location of the firm are hidden by domainsbyproxy.com. But Pegasi is correct about one thing: ...

Who Put the "American" in "American Research Journals"?

According to the American Research Journal of Genetics , “[g]enetics is theoriginal [sic] study of all aspects of human and animal genetics ... .” Oh well, I never cared for plant genetics anyway. The named editors include “Dr. Niels Morling , MD, DMSc, Professor of Forensic Genetics, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.” Although the website reports no articles in press and no editor-in-chief, it assures us that “the current issue edition will be published shortly.” The American Journal of Nanotechnology is in the same boat — no articles in press, and no editor-in-chief. Yet, it too maintains that “the current issue edition will be published shortly We highly appreciate and encourage the Professors, Research scholars, Students, Research fellows etc, to globally publish their articles in our Journal.” The American Research Journal of Mathematics has no articles in press, but it has a couple of past issues. The non-US affiliations of most of the editors ...

Pearl Research Journals

Pearl Research Journals lists (3/31/18) seven online journals covering almost anything you can imagine -- from a "Journal of Scientific Research and Essays" to a "Pearl Journal of Management, Social Sciences, and the Humanities." Although none of the websites gives a physical address for Pearl or its journals, the domain pearlresearchjournals.org is registered to Pearl Research Journals, Emu lane off Old ogorode Road sapele, sapele Delta 234, Nigeria, Phone: +234.8039782940, Fax: +234.8039782940, Email:SAKPOGHENETA@GMAIL.COM. Authors are advised that ⊙ they should "Precise the introduction in a significant manner ... ." ⊙ "Introduction should be briefly justifies the research ... ." ⊙ "Postal submission will only be accepted in electronic format. Submissions ... by post are not acceptable." ⊙ "Acknowledgement section may be included if author wants to acknowledge to the funding agency of to an scientist (s)." Email From: ...

Copernicus Publishers

Not to be confused with Copernicus Publications in Germany, Copernicus Publishing is just entering a crowded field of pretenders. Copernicus Publishing's website (copernicuspublishing.com) identifies two academic journals -- Archives of Psychology and Clinical Medicine Review (CMR). The link to the latter does not work, but the website (such as it is) can be found at www.clinicalmedicinereview.org). The solicitation spam fails to mention that there is no such journal -- at least, not yet. Clicking on "current" and "archives" triggers the response "This journal has not published any issues." Clicking on "Authors Guidelines" yields "File not found." The website lists neither an editor nor an editorial board. The publisher's motto ought to be, "After they come, we'll build it." The domain names copernicuspublishing.org and copernicuspublishing.com were registered by GoDaddy's Domains By Proxy on Feb. 7, 201...