Re: [LIS-Forum] Study of Predatory Journals

Dear professionals, Greetings. At the outset I would like to apologize Mr Suresh Narayan for the delayed response. As far as I know from the study I have conducted on the concept “Predatory Journals” I would like to convey few of my opinions as rejoinder to Mr Suresh Narayan’s mail on LIS Forum. I felt that the response of Koteshwara Rao Mimidi is anomalous since the predatory journals are emerged in all discipline. It is not that one part of LIS fraternity is publishing in predatory journals and other group is condemning on publishing in predatory journals. Being library professionals it is also our responsibility to keep our user community informed about genuine journals to have their papers published while other side researchers are requested by predatory journals through e mails mentioning fake impact factor to stimulate researchers for publishing articles in their journal. Actually the term “*Predatory Journals*” has been coined by Jeffrey Beall, librarian at Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver, in Denver, Colorado. This person has created a website in which the list of predatory journals in various disciplines is frequently updated not just the library and information science. *Here are my observations on the predatory journals:* 1. Instant publication (within two days acceptance letter will be given seeking publication charges). 2. Publishes even large portion of plagiarized content (more than 90% plagiarized content can also be published). 3. Doesn’t review the articles (though journals are peer reviewed ones). 4. Provides wrong impact factor. 5. Some of the journals are not having internet domain (created using free website) 6. Automated reviews (for all articles common reviews or suggestions are given). I think there are no committees or council like *The office of Research integrity (ORI)*, *Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) *in India which addresses the concerns of editors and publishers of scientific journals about scientific fraud and raises awareness among editors, reviewers and educates authors about unethical behavior. In case these types of offices exist in India how they are monitoring the publishing or integrity of the journals which were given ISSN by National Science Library, India. The rate of retraction of papers due to plagiarism, fabrication/falsification of data and other academic misconduct is very less in India but in other countries like USA and UK a paper with small portion of plagiarized content gets retracted. For the reports on retractions of scientific papers one can subscribe or visit to http://retractionwatch.com/ . In my study it is also observed the advisorship and editorship of many professors and librarians in the journals which accepts even papers with high similarity index. This way directly or indirectly research community itself becoming the supporter of these sorts of predatory journals. In LIS field many researches like bibliometric and citation analysis are being done similar to this if we start doing research on the publication ethics/integrity of journals we can help India becoming predatory journals free country. Regards Kodandarama Temporary Assistant Librarian University of Mysore Mysore On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Koteswara Rao Mamidi wrote:

The irony is that one group of LIS fraternity is publishing their papers in these predatory and dubious journals while the other group of people are making hue and cry about these journals. Is this not double standard? Koteswara Rao Retd. Librarian, UOH

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On 22-Oct-2016, at 8:40 PM, Ramachandran Guruprasad wrote:

As simple as searching for a needle in the Haystack.

Warm regards, Dr Guruprasad

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Suresh Narayanan < suresh@bridgepeople.in> wrote:

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Dear All,

Greeting.

Of recent, there has been an explosion of FREE to access and PAY to publish business models in the STM domain.

I have been observing a growing set of new metrics that are being put in place by the new business model publishers. Most importantly, various websites are publishing details of predator publishers and some names are quite common to all of us.

Would appreciate to understand the stand of senior library professionals on the topic and what is the impact of such content on library budgets and research quality?

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