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Elsevier Reveals More Details About Its Fake Journal Division
from the that-would-be-an-oops dept
Remember how Elsevier and Merck were caught putting out a fake journal that had articles favoring Merck drugs, implying peer reviewed articles that weren't? Soon afterwards, it came out that Elsevier had a whole division for such things. However, following an internal investigation, it looks like Elsevier is backtracking a bit and saying that, while the group's practices were problematic, most weren't as egregious as the "Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine (AJBJM)" that was created by Merck and Elsevier. Instead, most of the others were sponsored by multiple companies, rather than just one. Still, the company admits that it never should have called the custom publications "journals" and is changing its publication rules -- having editors from its real journals create the guidelines for any custom publication offerings. Either way, this whole episode is a serious black mark on Elsevier and the reputation of any of its journals -- real or "fake."
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They should've added the word "advertisement" to the top and bottom of each page, in very small print.
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"They should've added the word "advertisement" to the top and bottom of each page, in very small print"
That doesn't mean anything - While I am not up on all the rules (and it varies by journal and grant), but if you use grant money to pay for publication costs (anywhere from 3,000 - 10,000 (and sometimes more)), you must put a footnote on the bottom and call your submission an "Advertisement" - all because you used grant money to defer pub. costs.
The rules are more complex and cumbersome, but basically, seeing "advertisement" on the bottom really doesn't mean anything.
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As much as I'm not a fan of laws for every single thing, I just cannot believe that this is legal.
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Now that you mention it I don't think a lot of "cable news" should be legal.
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That's a good one.. eh! But do they make good beer?
Oh, this is about Elsiver the fake publisher, nor Elsinor the fake brewery. Oh well, take off eh, they are both a couple of hosers...
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Two Fake Journals in Computer Science
While browsing the net, I found two more fake journals in Computer Science: (1) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS) (http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/contact-ijcsis) (2) International Journal of Computer and Network Security (IJCNS) (http://www.ijcns.org)
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Re: Two Fake Journals in Computer Science
may be your paper not acceted and sais fake coz IJCNS is free journal.
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Re: Two Fake Journals in Computer Science
There is nothing fake about the journals, on the contrary-- the papers are quite high quality and the review process works like how 'open source' works for software industry. Stop posting silly claims like this or you will face law suits and/or criminal actions for defamation by posting the names of all these people and their respectable academic institutions here.
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FAKE JOURNAL CROP UP BEWARE -- ijcvms.org
Today I got a wonderful email read as follows: (All those who are against scams, forward this post to related and relevant websites/blogs/forums.) ------------------------------------------------- Dear Researcher, We have seen your profile on researchgate.net and we pleased to request you to hold the position of Reviewer in the International Journal of Computer Vision and Multimedia. The International Journal of Computer Vision and Multimedia is a scholarly peer-reviewed international scientific journal published monthly, focusing on theories, methods, algorithms, and applications in computer vision and multimedia. It provide a high profile, leading edge forum for academic researchers, industrial professionals, engineers, consultants, managers, educators and policy makers working in the field to contribute and disseminate innovative new work on computer vision and multimedia. More information can be obtained from the official website: http://ijcvms.org You can register using this link. Registration is free! http://ijcvms.org/index.php/cvms/user/register Reviewers are also requested to send their CV to editor@ijcvms.org. Researchers holding a PhD can also apply to be part of the editorial team. We hope to hear from you very soon. Maria Hollingsworth Journal Manager -------------------------------------------------- These people are real academic criminals trying to make money out of researchers! They set up a fake journal, populate it with some people's name and release CFP and ultimately their hands goes down to your pocket when it comes to register your papers!! They downloaded OJS which is an open source easily installed app, 10 mins configuration and they are done! The funny thing is that this guy happen to send me the email from his gmail ac and just before that I guess he configured his GMail to use the "Send Mail As" option to make it as if the mail comes from the journal domain name host. I simply extracted the header of the mail and got the following: -------------------------------------------------- Delivered-To: {my email add here} Received: by 10.115.110.15 with SMTP id n15cs31538wam; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:28:13 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com designates 10.90.22.29 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.90.22.29; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com designates 10.90.22.29 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.90.22.29]) by 10.90.22.29 with SMTP id 29mr2033275agv.25.1253708891141 (num_hops = 1); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:28:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:content-type; bh=kXKqJmT6tjVZwsSeZjyltB5UtzETwbSnWFi/9khmUM0=; b=OLQZuU4e/Pfs5JBdkmj/po84qevgs6BA3Cb27yEYJfXObxZq7JT2bsp7kBz+LxmPDq upu20DAW9SpkymLOLYFSyky41LH87YFoCqVGgD6DzbSRzqxRPTLqsLIubiR2D1Om4pOI kInXjfa/Te6d6VWWXvfyGIFKeVSkDLXuaDcP4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:content-type; b=IZ8JCGqIwAF/cgAF/6O1OFm0wth7Plm3rLxxM5WKks31dpqZyDXDaGsdJrzt/PAxpS CGQtZvrbcpI7WbowgM4UJkWXEz5dv3+x6xkvJqbmwqzHTfNO7iPE+z9o9sgzRF8C8DWr Xm5ScwddfBrdZDeijOzvu+9r5JlIt5biMOmSQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com Received: by 10.90.22.29 with SMTP id 29mt2033275agv.25.1253708890810; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:28:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:28:10 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2dd18ebcc2b231bd Message-ID: Subject: Request for joining the International Journal of Computer Vision and Multimedia Services as Reviewer From: International Journal of Computer Vision and Multimedia Services Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016362835f01b9f1004743dd91c --0016362835f01b9f1004743dd91c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -------------------------------------------------- sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com is sending the fake emails and also violating someone else identity (thats identity theft), that of Maria Hollingsworth who claims to be the Journal Manager!
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FAKE JOURNAL CROP UP BEWARE -- ijcvms.org
Today I got a wonderful email read as follows:
(All those who are against scams, forward this post to related and relevant websites/blogs/forums.)
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Dear Researcher,
We have seen your profile on researchgate.net and we pleased to request you to hold the position of Reviewer in the International Journal of Computer Vision and Multimedia.
The International Journal of Computer Vision and Multimedia is a scholarly peer-reviewed international scientific journal published monthly, focusing on theories, methods, algorithms, and applications in computer vision and multimedia. It provide a high profile, leading edge forum for academic researchers, industrial professionals, engineers, consultants, managers, educators and policy makers working in the field to contribute and disseminate innovative new work on computer vision and multimedia.
More information can be obtained from the official website:
http://ijcvms.org
You can register using this link. Registration is free!
http://ijcvms.org/index.php/cvms/user/register
Reviewers are also requested to send their CV to editor@ijcvms.org.
Researchers holding a PhD can also apply to be part of the editorial team.
We hope to hear from you very soon.
Maria Hollingsworth
Journal Manager
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These people are real academic criminals trying to make money out of researchers! They set up a fake journal, populate it with some people's name and release CFP and ultimately their hands goes down to your pocket when it comes to register your papers!! They downloaded OJS which is an open source easily installed app, 10 mins configuration and they are done!
The funny thing is that this guy happen to send me the email from his gmail ac and just before that I guess he configured his GMail to use the "Send Mail As" option to make it as if the mail comes from the journal domain name host. I simply extracted the header of the mail and got the following:
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Delivered-To: {my email add here}
Received: by 10.115.110.15 with SMTP id n15cs31538wam;
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:28:13 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com designates 10.90.22.29 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.90.22.29;
Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com designates 10.90.22.29 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com
Received: from mr.google.com ([10.90.22.29])
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Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:28:11 -0700 (PDT)
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Sep 2009 05:28:10 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:28:10 -0800
X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2dd18ebcc2b231bd
Message-ID:
Subject: Request for joining the International Journal of Computer Vision and
Multimedia Services as Reviewer
From: International Journal of Computer Vision and Multimedia Services
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016362835f01b9f1004743dd91c
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sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com is sending the fake emails and also violating someone else identity (thats identity theft), that of Maria Hollingsworth who claims to be the Journal Manager!
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University of Mauritius - Lecturer Sameer Padaruth
University of Mauritius
I think this lecturer, Sameer Pudaruth sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com is a lame lecturer who does not know much about computer ethics. In fact, he started a good website but the way he promoted it leads to severe criticism.
The sad part is that, all these criticisms will kill his good endeavour and discourage him to invest his time and energy in the website. He wants to host a website for education purposes and perhaps get some money with advertisements.
Anyway, he is a total nerd at dating. Who gets a girl with clichéd love letters? I should definitely teach him the skills behind dating! Duh.
There is another lecturer - Gavin Sathan - who tries to date university girls. Oh! How scornful. He always succeeds to invite to lunch the good-looking, yet stupid and lame, girls. Good for him, but this attitude is not professional. This lecturer lacks personality and integrity. He should learn from the respectable Darren (Dassen?) Sathan , or other lecturers like Pascal Grosset.
I hope this message reaches the concerned parties.
Special Offers:
June 2009 Solutions for Maths, Add Maths, Computer Studies, Chemistry and Principles of Accounts.
$2.00 each.
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Examiners' Reports available freely for all subjects on:
http://education.mu/forum
Marking Schemes available freely for some subjects on:
http://education.mu/colleges
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* All Papers and documents will be available till the 24th of September. *
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Payments can be done through Paypal. Please send your payments to sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com
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Scam: Fake Journal Publications
Beware of more unscrupulous journals with many academics getting scammed and deceit.
IJCSI Official Reviewers
http://www.ijcsi.org
• Mr. Markus Schatten, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Croatia
• Mr. Forrest Sheng Bao, Texas Tech University, USA
• Mr. Vassilis Papataxiarhis, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Ilissia, GR-15784, Athens, Greece, Greece
• Dr Modestos Stavrakis, Univarsity of the Aegean, Greece
• Dr Fadi KHALIL, LAAS -- CNRS Laboratory, France
• Dr Dimitar Trajanov, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information technologies, ss. Cyril and Methodius Univesity - Skopje, Macedonia
• Dr Jinping Yuan, College of Information System and Management,National Univ. of Defense Tech., China
• Dr Alexis Lazanas, Ministry of Education, Greece
• Dr Stavroula Mougiakakou, University of Bern, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Switzerland
• Dr DE RUNZ, CReSTIC-SIC, IUT de Reims, University of Reims, France
• Mr. Pramodkumar P. Gupta, Dept of Bioinformatics, Dr D Y Patil University, India
• Dr Alireza Fereidunian, School of ECE, University of Tehran, Iran
• Mr. Fred Viezens, Otto-Von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
• Mr. J. Caleb Goodwin, University of Texas at Houston: Health Science Center, USA
• Dr. Richard G. Bush, Lawrence Technological University, United States
• Dr. Ola Osunkoya, Information Security Architect, USA
• Mr. Kotsokostas N.Antonios, TEI Piraeus, Hellas
• Prof Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, U of Halle-Wittenberg & Purdue U & National Sun Yat-sen U, Germany, USA, Taiwan
• Mr. M Arif Siddiqui, Najran University, Saudi Arabia
• Ms. Ilknur Icke, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
• Prof Miroslav Baca, Associated Professor/Faculty of Organization and Informatics/University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Dr. Elvia Ruiz Beltrán, Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes, Mexico
• Mr. Moustafa Banbouk, Engineer du Telecom, UAE
• Mr. Kevin P. Monaghan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Ms. Moira Stephens, University of Sydney, Australia
• Ms. Maryam Feily, National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAV6) , Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
• Dr. Constantine YIALOURIS, Informatics Laboratory Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
• Mrs. Angeles Abella, U. de Montreal, Canada
• Dr. Patrizio Arrigo, CNR ISMAC, italy
• Mr. Anirban Mukhopadhyay, B.P.Poddar Institute of Management & Technology, India
• Mr. Dinesh Kumar, DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology, India
• Mr. Jorge L. Hernandez-Ardieta, INDRA SISTEMAS / University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Mr. AliReza Shahrestani, University of Malaya (UM), National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAv6), Malaysia
• Mr. Blagoj Ristevski, Faculty of Administration and Information Systems Management - Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
• Mr. Mauricio Egidio Cantão, Department of Computer Science / University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Mr. Jules Ruis, Fractal Consultancy, The netherlands
• Mr. Mohammad Iftekhar Husain, University at Buffalo, USA
• Dr. Deepak Laxmi Narasimha, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia
• Dr. Paola Di Maio, DMEM University of Strathclyde, UK
• Dr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Institute of Instrumentation Engineering, Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, India
• Mr. Sana Ullah, Inha University, South Korea
• Mr. Cornelis Pieter Pieters, Condast, The Netherlands
• Dr. Amogh Kavimandan, The MathWorks Inc., USA
• Dr. Zhinan Zhou, Samsung Telecommunications America, USA
• Mr. Alberto de Santos Sierra, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Dr. Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad, Department of Applied Physics, Electronics & Communication Engineering (APECE), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Dr. Charalampos Bratsas, Lab of Medical Informatics, Medical Faculty, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Ms. Alexia Dini Kounoudes, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Mr. Anthony Gesase, University of Dar es salaam Computing Centre, Tanzania
• Dr. Jorge A. Ruiz-Vanoye, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico
• Dr. Alejandro Fuentes Penna, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, México
• Dr. Ocotlán Díaz-Parra, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, México
• Mrs. Nantia Iakovidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Mr. Vinay Chopra, DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jalandhar
• Ms. Carmen Lastres, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Centre for Smart Environments, Spain
• Dr. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
• Mr. Srikrishna Nudurumati, Imaging & Printing Group R&D Hub, Hewlett-Packard, India
• Dr. Olivier Nocent, CReSTIC/SIC, University of Reims, France
• Mr. Burak Cizmeci, Isik University, Turkey
• Dr. Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez, LIG (Laboratory Of Informatics of Grenoble), France
• Mr. Md. Rabiul Islam, Rajshahi university of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Bangladesh
• Dr. LAKHOUA Mohamed Najeh, ISSAT - Laboratory of Analysis and Control of Systems, Tunisia
• Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi, Department of Chemistry - University of Firenze, Italy
• Mr. Mungwe, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• Mr. Somnath Tagore, Dr D Y Patil University, India
• Mr. Nehinbe Joshua, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK
• Ms. Xueqin Wang, ATCS, USA
• Dr. Fondjo Fotou Franklin, Langston University, USA
• Mr. Haytham Mohtasseb, Department of Computing - University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
• Dr. Vishal Goyal, Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, India
• Mr. Thomas J. Clancy, ACM, United States
• Dr. Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed, Dr. in Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, menouf 32951, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering Department, Menoufia university, EGYPT, EGYPT
• Dr. Rushed Kanawati, LIPN, France
• Mr. Koteshwar Rao, K G Reddy College Of ENGG.&TECH,CHILKUR, RR DIST.,AP, India
• Mr. M. Nagesh Kumar, Department of Electronics and Communication, J.S.S. research foundation, Mysore University, Mysore-6, India
• Mr. Saqib Saeed, University of Siegen, Germany
• Dr. Ibrahim Noha, Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France
• Mr. Muhammad Yasir Qadri, University of Essex, UK
• Mr. Annadurai .P, KMCPGS, Lawspet, Pondicherry, India, (Aff. Pondicherry Univeristy, India
• Mr. E Munivel , CEDTI (Govt. of India), India
• Dr. Chitra Ganesh Desai, University of Pune, India
• Mr. Syed, Analytical Services & Materials, Inc., USA
• Dr. Mashud Kabir, Department of Computer Science, University of Tuebingen, Germany
• Mrs. Payal N. Raj, Veer South Gujarat University, India
• Mrs. Priti Maheshwary, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
• Mr. Mahesh Goyani, S.P. University, India, India
• Mr. Vinay Verma, Defence Avionics Research Establishment, DRDO, India
• Dr. George A. Papakostas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• Mr. Mohsen Toorani, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
• Mr. Abhijit Sanjiv Kulkarni, DARE, DRDO, India
• Mr. Kavi Kumar Khedo, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
• Dr. B. Sivaselvan, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, IIT Madras Campus, India
• Dr. Partha Pratim Bhattacharya, Greater Kolkata College of Engineering and Management, West Bengal University of Technology, India
• Mr. Manish Maheshwari, Makhanlal C University of Journalism & Communication, India
• Dr. Siddhartha Kumar Khaitan, Iowa State University, USA
• Dr. Mandhapati Raju, General Motors Inc, USA
• Dr. M.Iqbal Saripan, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
• Mr. Ahmad Shukri Mohd Noor, University Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
• Mr. Selvakuberan K, TATA Consultancy Services, India
• Dr. Smita Rajpal, Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon, India
• Mr. Rakesh Kachroo, Tata Consultancy Services, India
• Mr. Raman Kumar, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab., India
• Mr. Nitesh Sureja, S.P.University, India
• Dr. M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
• Dr. Aung Kyaw Oo, Defence Services Academy, Myanmar
• Mr. Sanjay P. Patel, Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering, Visnagar, Gujarat, India
• Dr. Pascal Fallavollita, Queens University, Canada
• Mr. Jitendra Agrawal, Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal, MP, India
• Mr. Ismael Rafael Ponce Medellín, Cenidet (Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico), Mexico
• Mr. Supheakmungkol SARIN, Waseda University, Japan
• Mr. Shoukat Ullah, Govt. Post Graduate College Bannu, Pakistan
• Dr. Vivian Augustine, Telecom Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
• Mrs. Mutalli Vatila, Offshore Business Philipines, Philipines
• Dr. Emanuele Goldoni, University of Pavia, Dept. of Electronics, TLC & Networking Lab, Italy
• Mr. Pankaj Kumar, SAMA, India
• Dr. Himanshu Aggarwal, Punjabi University,Patiala, India
• Dr. Vauvert Guillaume, Europages, France
• Prof Yee Ming Chen, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
• Dr. Constantino Malagón, Nebrija University, Spain
• Prof Kanwalvir Singh Dhindsa, B.B.S.B.Engg.College, Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab), India
• Mr. Angkoon Phinyomark, Prince of Singkla University, Thailand
• Ms. Nital H. Mistry, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, India
• Dr. M.R.Sumalatha, Anna University, India
• Mr. Somesh Kumar Dewangan, Disha Institute of Management and Technology, India
• Mr. Raman Maini, Punjabi University, Patiala(Punjab)-147002, India
• Dr. Abdelkader Outtagarts, Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs, France
• Prof Dr. Abdul Wahid, AKG Engg. College, Ghaziabad, India
• Mr. Prabu Mohandas, Anna University/Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, india
• Dr. Manish Kumar Jindal, Panjab University Regional Centre, Muktsar, India
• Prof Mydhili K Nair, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technnology, Bangalore, India
International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI)
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
its good that you are mentioning the name of journal which is fake.But it is very ridiculous and shame for you that you are mentioning the name of reviewers of the journal,because the reviewers belongs to very reputed institutions and academic area and you don't have the right to display their names like this without anyone permissions.
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it is suggested that you delete the names of the reviewer and apologise for your deeds
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
I found good papers in IJCSI and the way things are done seems ok to me(peer review). I don't undstd what is your problem with this journal, did it turn down your paper? ;)
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
Silly and stupid behavior! I have previously seen such type of attack to open access journal. If you don't like it, so don't like it why trying to defame it? If you are really an academic, then you are in the wrong job! You need to be in the FBI :D
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Well said! ;)
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
Looks like the growing popularity of IJCSI is really making someone unhappy! I guess the moderator should ban this comment.
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
This is really a cheap thing to do, to list the reviewers. If you had any issue with the journal, you should have contacted them! And from what I understand, IJCSI is an open access and registered journal! So, what issue of fake are you speaking about?
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
This fake comment about IJCSI has been posted by Mr Sameerchand Pudaruth of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Mauritius, who has previously been reported to be a lame, unprofessional and unethical lecturer!
He can be reached at the following email addresses: sameer.pudaruth@gmail.com, sameerchand.pudaruth@gmail.com, s.pudaruth@uom.ac.mu. Website: http://cse.uom.ac.mu/node/272
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
This guy, Sameerchand Pudaruth, is a real crap!
I have just came across his facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/sameerchand
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
It seems to me that TechDirt only moderator articles and not the comments. I have requested them several times to remove the fake comment where the list of reviewers appeared through their contact us page (http://www.techdirt.com/contact.php); however I didn't receive any response from them!
I am sure if I contact them for advertisement purposes(http://www.techdirt.com/advertise.php) they will reply me in minutes! A real shame!
It's good that this lame academic (Sameerchand Pudaruth)has been reported in the scientific community for his unethical act!!
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
I just went through the papers published by IJCSI. No bogus/fake paper as such has been published, instead I found some very good quality papers. So what "fake" are you claiming?
The beauty of IJCSI like other good quality open access journals is that there is no payment-barrier in accessing the papers, we don't have to pay to access knowledge. I like this philosophy!
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
I just saw this post and frankly I was shocked about how could someone do such thing!
I am from the US and yes my name is listed up there and I am a reviewer of IJCSI for the past 3 months. I have reviewed 5 papers until now out of which I recommend 2 to be accepted (with minor revisions) and rejected the rest.
I noticed that the papers that I recommended have been published and the remaining 3 were not, probably the 2nd reviewers feedback were almost same as mine. The journal even mail me back revised versions of the papers to be further check if the minor changes have been respected some days prior to their publications.
Before making such comment, become a reviewer and get involve, and see how things work!
For me definitely, you are a narrow-minded person and an amateur in the scientific publishing community!
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
There is nothing fake about these journals
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ridiculous
Its ridiculous and shame that you are giving the name of reputed journal and not only the name of journal but also the name of reputed reviewers who work for the journal.And it is shame for techdirt also that they are allowing such type of nuisance published in their site and they are not taking proper consideration what to be published or not.really they are proving their name that techdirt is a dirt for technology and others too.This type of websites and peoples associated with techdirt has to be closed down and punished for their activities and publishings that they are allowing the anonymous persons to write anything in their blogs.
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Re: ridiculous
I agree with you susan! I've got noting to add more, you said what I wanted to say.
Just one thing, that was really a bad and sad move from this academic. He has disgraced himself!
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How do you know that IJCSI is fake? How can you tell?
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stupid and unethical action
I just went through the papers published by IJCSI. No bogus/fake paper as such has been published, instead I found some very good quality papers. So what "fake" are you claiming?
The beauty of IJCSI like other good quality open access journals is that there is no payment-barrier in accessing the papers, we don't have to pay to access knowledge. I like this philosophy!
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Re: Scam: Fake Journal Publications
I am one of the reviewer in IJCSI (and yes, listed up there too). I was looking for my own name in google and found this forum.
Based on my involvement with IJCSI (so far), they have been following the normal/standard way of publishing papers. The papers are properly reviewed and we can get to reject the papers too. Therefore, I dont quite understand what is the issue here. Of course, the journal is not an impact factor journal, but at least it is a peer reviewed journal, and properly being reviewed, unlike a few bogus journals that I knew.
I think, before making such comments, you should try to involve with them (try to submit papers, or volunteer to become the reviewers), then only you will know if the journal is good or not.
So, I'm thinking either you are an anti-open access journal person, or you are still young in the research world.
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no-nonsense
I just saw this post and frankly I was shocked about how could someone do such thing!
I am from the US and yes my name is listed up there and I am a reviewer of IJCSI for the past 3 months. I have reviewed 5 papers until now out of which I recommend 2 to be accepted (with minor revisions) and rejected the rest.
I noticed that the papers that I recommended have been published and the remaining 3 were not, probably the 2nd reviewers feedback were almost same as mine. The journal even mail me back revised versions of the papers to be further check if the minor changes have been respected some days prior to their publications.
Before making such comment, become a reviewer and get involve, and see how things work!
For me definitely, you are a narrow-minded person and an amateur in the scientific publishing community!
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Well, I am one of the reviewers listed in the thread and I am offended. The comment should be deleted by the moderators. I have reviewed 4-5 articles and have accepted only 1. I have not seen any problems with the journal.
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I don't see anything fake about the journals
I was asked to be a reviewer and I accepted--I have not been asked to review any papers yet, but I did take a look at the papers they published so far, and they do not look fake to me at all. On the contrary, some of the papers look very high quality. I do not appreciate the fact that someone posted my name here as if I was doing 'fake science'.
Having said that, It seems like the reviewing mechanism works well. I think it might even be beneficial to have a review mechanism like this because I personally think that most of the 'professional communities' are so narrow minded that they do not want to accept any work that does not follow their way of thinking even though it might have sound ideas and methodologies.
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its a shameless act
Iam the reviewer of this journal and my name is listed there .It is my request to all the reviewers of this journal to launch a case or report the act so that the moderators of this tech dirt will take a very serious action in future to not publish this type of comments where the name of reputed persons are mentioned.I had written to them so many times to delete this comment from the board but they refuse to do that so I think if we will together take some action then in future no one will do this type of act again.Its a very serious matter to the reputation of all of us because I didn't find anything fake about this jouranl .I had reviewed 4 papers also.
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Re: its a shameless act
all the reviewers are ALREADY listed on the IJCSI.org site... what is the problem?
http://www.ijcsi.org/reviewers-list.php
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I am also a reviewer of IJCSU ad I really agree with rita ann that we should take a collective action.
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I also agree
Iam also a reviewer of IJCSI and I also agree that we should have to take some action to remove this kind of dirts in the field of growing technology and also it is neccessary to give lessons to the publishers to not play and not allow to play anyone from the name of reputed persons.
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TechDirt is CRAP since comments are not moderated!
I will ask only one single question.
How can we ensure the CREDIBILITY and VALIDITY of a website content if the latter is NOT MODERATED?
As you will see friends, no comment is moderated!!
So ANYONE can post ANYTHING!! A real shame for TechDirt!
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Who is in charge in this site?
I was informed that my name is listed in the "fake" IJCSI reviewers list. Please give me the name and the home address of the site's owner so that I can press charges. This has to end now!
I reviewed 5 papers and rejected the 4 of them, what do you mean by "fake"? What in hell are you people doing here? Tell me the admin's name. This behavior is against any ethics in science!
Dr. Alexis Lazanas
University of Patras, Greece
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Re: Who is in charge in this site?
there is link of the team and one guy has link to his blog where his email and facebook details could be found. maybe it oculd work.
http://www.floor64.com/team.php
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Admin and Owner of TechDirt
This website (TechDirt) is managed by Floor64 a company based somewhere in the US. They did not give their physical mailing address (http://www.floor64.com).
The owner is Mr Michael Masnick. He provides a telephone number on the contact us page (http://www.techdirt.com/contact.php) which is 1-888-930-9272, but you can call them 1000 times, you will never reach someone on the other end!
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its a shameless activity
it is a very shameless thing that techdirt has no proper authenticated person who is ready to take the responsibility and have proper mailing address.if anyone find this, please give it on this site I will take very serious action on them because Iam a LAW person and I know how to handle this kind of activity and how to stop this kind of nuisance activities done in the site where name of reputed personnals are displaying.I think this techdirt personnels don't know that our laws are not that much week that they will allow anything to be display on the site without any proper moderations.They will definetely face a very big problem on displaying and allowing to dispaly this kind of messages.
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Re: its a shameless activity
Hello Joseph,
Hope the following will help you.
TechDirt is managed by a company known as Floor64...(don't know whether if it really exist or registered!)
On this link: http://www.floor64.com/team.php you will find all the persons responsible for the company Floor64.
Furthermore, one member of this company, Dennis Yang, got a link to his blog (http://www.dennisyang.com/). His email add is me@dennisyang.com and his FaceBook profile is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=421383.
Michael Masnick (the CEO of Floor64) website: http://www.masnick.com/
Michael Ho (the Executive Director of Floor64) website:
http://www.mikeho.com/
Some links:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis/sets/72157622388688211/
http://www.dennisyang.com/album s/
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