[LIS-Forum] India is among the leaders in predatory publishing

Wed Oct 14 09:35:02 IST 2015

I disagree Dr. Guruprasad's view that the authors have no option to publish
in good journals. There are many good journals in every discipline that do
not have publication charges but stringent quality control methods. Large
number of authors, however, do not have patience to keep responding to
reviewers comments and work more on improving the quality of their
publications. And predatory journals come to their solace.

Any way, though slow, UGC is in a process of putting in place a list of
such journals (mostly Beals list) -  the news (at
http://www.punemirror.in/pune/civic/Keep-out-of-bogus-journals-SPPU-tells-researchers/articleshow/48089848.cms)
first
brought to the notice on this forum by Siva Shankar Kimidi on 19 July.
Let's believe things would improve.

If the research management is strict with the quality things improve. See
the jump in the graph from 2004 of one such organization at
http://www.nio.org/index/option/com_subcategory/task/show/title/Research%20Contributions/tid/1/sid/19/thid/58

Regards, - Tapaswi

Regards, - Tapaswi

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Ramachandran Guruprasad <
gprasad61 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Dr. Goudar,
>
> You can go on with the list which will only mushroom in the coming years.
>
> If the so called 'prestigious journal publishers' charge such huge amounts
> for publishing a paper, it is but natural, people will go elsewhere and
> publish it at a smaller amount.
>
> The individual organization should come out with a policy that one should
> publish only with a certain number of identified journals. This process is
> rather very difficult but not impossible.
>
> At the other hand, this process also becomes very difficult, as every year
> there are many good journal publishers who constantly springing up.
>
> The onus can also lie with the Indian Govt. to bring out policies in this
> regard.
>
> An International regulatory policy could also bring out strong policies
> with various journals in different disciplines.
>
> The joys of the Internet and Online Publishing was enjoyed all these years,
> now one has to face its perils also.
>
> With best regards,
> Dr Guruprasad
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Ishwar Goudar <
> goudarishwar at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > Predatory journals are a big menace in scholarly publication activity.
> The
> > report quoted by Prof. Arun 'India is second only to Nigeria in
> publishing
> > Predatory Journals' is a disturbing news and a big challenge for serious
> > Indian Academic and Research Community.  I keep getting mails from many
> > dubitious publishers inviting me either to be in their editorial board or
> > to submit a research papers and I am sure many of you must be getting
> > similar mails.  While I dont want to make any comments about the
> following
> > examples, you can have your own inference/assessment after visiting their
> > websites , the contact address, the so called  editorial board, article
> > processing charges and more importantly the misleading Impact factor
> > values, etc.
> >
> > 1. There is one "Institute of Research In Engineering and Technology
> > (IRET)", which publishes 10 Journals and 12 Transactions, covering
> >  almost all branches of engineering like a combined job of Societieslike
> > IEEE, ASME, AIChE, ACM, ASCE, etc.
> >
> > 2. Another publishing group claims to publish with a slogan "A Monthly
> > Double-Blind Peer Reviewed Refereed/Juried OA International Journals*,
> > Included in the International Serial Directories"*  http://ijrcm.org.in/
> > <http://223.130.4.181/%7Emywahegu/link.php?M=2515958&N=124&L=12&F=H>
> > <http://223.130.4.181/%7Emywahegu/link.php?M=2515958&N=124&L=12&F=H>
> >
> > I tried to visit this site, but.....
> >
> >
> > 3. Following is one of the example, for which I received a mail inviting
> me
> > to be in their editorial board.  You make your own assessment
> >
> >    of  this agency which publishes about 16 journals covering many
> > disciplines. http://www.innovareacademics.in/index.php
> >
> >
> > 4.. A good number of journals of this kind are being published including
> > LIS in India  I have received hundreds of mails of this kind either
> >      directly or through various forums like our Lis-forum, marked in a
> > folder of my e-mail account.
> >
> > 5. There is an interesting report on the topic of discussion.
> >     Junk journals from bogus research center
> >
> >
> >
> http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/04/28/more-junk-journals-from-a-bogus-research-center/
> >
> > 6. We keeping seeing many postings in our Lis-forum requesting  for
> > contributing a chapter for the proposed edited book to be published
> >     with ISBN number by a well known International Publisher without
> giving
> > more details. Intentions are obvious for adding some API score
> >     as author/editor. (This ststement of mine is not necessarity on the
> > issue of Predatory Journals, although has some bearing on the
> >      topic.)
> >
> > 7. There are some agencies evaluating journals, many a times overnight
> and
> > provide misguiding different kind of  Impact Factor values.
> >
> > For example the agency detailed in the following URL assigns 'Technical
> > Impact Factor'.
> > http://timpactfactor.com/index.html
> > Following is a sentence I have just copied from it's site. Please read it
> > and examine the spelling mistake, from an ageccy evaluating scholarly
> > journals. "Technical factor can be added to impact factor. Technical
> factor
> > is caliculated from editorial bord and journal team members".
> >
> > Another agency "Index Copernicus International", which releases annual
> list
> > of journals with "IC Value". It claims of using various parameters for
> > assigning this value.  Please visit the following site for more details.
> > http://jml2012.indexcopernicus.com/masterlist.php
> >
> > I can go on and on giving such examples.
> > We need analyse the situation and reasons for this kind of developments.
> > - UGC has mandated to publish two research papers before submission of
> PhD
> > and obviously many take a short cut of reducing
> >   processing time from 1-6 months to 1-6 days by approaching predatory
> > journal publishers.
> > - While many academicians and researchers do serious research and publish
> > in quality journals, few follow this shortcuts just for API
> >   score required for recruitment and assessment for promotion.
> > - Unless all our authorities and research administrators including
> > Chairpersons of the departments, BOS and guides are serious I don't
> >   think there is any solution.
> > UGC's move of scanning research papers and ETDs using Plagiarism software
> > for similarity check may help the situation, but may not curb the menace
> > created by Predatory Journals totally.  We need a serious and proper
> > consorted effort by all stake holder of scholarly publishing activity
> > including Publishers (both Commercial and Society), Academic and Research
> > Administarors, Faculties and Scientists, Librarians, etc.
> >
> > I REQUEST ALL OF YOU TO REACT AND  CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION ON THIS ISSUE.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <
> >
> http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/04/28/more-junk-journals-from-a-bogus-research-center/
> > >
> >
> > "Access E-Resources for Academic and Research Excellence"
> >
> > *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -*
> > Dr. I.R.N. Goudar
> > - Adjunct Professor, Mangalore University
> > - Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser
> >   Bangalore University Library, BANGALORE - 560056
> > - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore
> > - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore
> > - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai
> > - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad
> > - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96)
> > - British Council Scholar (1982-83)
> >   E-mail: goudarishwar at gmail.com
> >   Tel: 080-23215510
> >   Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line)
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Subbiah Arunachalam <
> > subbiah.arunachalam at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Friends:
> > >
> > > India is second only to Nigeria in predatory publishing, says this
> > report:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.punchng.com/opinion/viewpoint/the-upsurge-in-black-market-publishing/
> > >
> > > Arun
> > > http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658
> > > http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009
> > >
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