How some of the mega #OpenAccess journals have performed in the past couple of years - against a decline by MDPI & Frontiers (see buff.ly/3Th00xd) | C&E's The Brief | Cureus | Nature Communications | Heliyon | PLOS ONE | buff.ly/4d1HAYo

. 72.67% of Annals of Case Reports articles get a submit to acceptance decision in less than a week. #FJN_P00002 #FJN_P00002_J0001 #FJN_Evidence We have extracted the dates from when articles were received by Gavin Publishers' Annals of Case Reports, and the time the article

Have to admire the audacity but I think you'll need a lot more than $2000.

Emails from (suspected) preadtory publishers is frustrating. We hope that we can alert others to the tactics/phrases they use. #PredatoryPublishingEmails #PredatoryPublishing Pexels

If you find this quote interesting, follow the link to view the full article. #FJNSoundBite #predatory #fake The Conversation buff.ly/2JjZNn8

We are going to take a look at ASRJS Publishers. Not sure what we'll find, but let's take a look. #FJN_P00004 #FJN_Evidence If you have any experience of this publisher, or the journals it publishes, please let us know. URL: buff.ly/3ZspQ5i (archived at

. A scholarly publication trade body that has real teeth? We have bodies such as DOAJ, Retraction Watch and who all do a fantastic job. But what we don't have (in our opinion) is a "trade body' that has real teeth and can demand publishers/journals take action, otherwise

We are thinking of doing a newsletter (no more than weekly, and probably less). The aim is to provide an update of significant (at least things we think are significant) things for the past week or so. Also to provide updates that we have not been able to cover elsewhere. If

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At the time of writing (16 Sep 2024) ASRJS Publishers' Advances in Infectious Diseases & Therapy have only published one issue (2022, 1(1)). The issues comprised 6 papers. Theor editorial board has 31 members. #FJN_P00004 #FJN_Evidence Our (perhaps naive) calculations says that

Suspicious phrases in peer reviews point to referees gaming the system buff.ly/4gr5izS

ASRJS Publishers' Cardiology & Cardiovasular Research has a journal guidelines page, which mentions its #OpenAccess policy. #FJN_P00004 #FJN_Evidence What they fail to mention are the Article Processing Charges (#APC) …. And we can't find the amount of these charges anywhere

Anyone can start a papermill! buff.ly/4elGVSC

ASRJS Publishers' International Journal of Nursing & Healthcare has a journal guidelines page, which mentions its #OpenAccess policy - actually it does not, as the page is blank. #FJN_P00004 #FJN_Evidence What they fail to mention are the Article Processing Charges (#APC) ….

I wonder why Magnus Langseth is so keen to get people away from the main platform and engage via Private Messaging. If I was being cynical, I'd guess that what he is offering is unethical.

On their Review Process page, ASRJS Publishers says that it follows COPE guidelines. This is good but, as far as we can see, they are not a member of #COPE. #FJN_P00004 #FJN_Evidence It is always a worry when publishers/journals say this as i) COPE have no way of enforcing

On their web site, the Annals of Clinical and Medical Case Reports (ISSN: 2639-8109) claims that it has published 2,600 articles (and rejected 3,200). #FJN_P00005 #FJN_Evidence We looked at the number of papers they published each year and could only find 773 articles. We

.IEEE, please monitor for these papers. If you don't, I suspect that somebody else will. URL: buff.ly/3zk8kp6 (you may need to be a member of the Facebook Group)