random wrote on Jan 3
rd, 2016 at 7:16pm:
The paper is bogus.
The International Journal of Current Science is number 120 on the List of Predatory Publishers 2014
By Jeffrey Beall
Released January 2, 2014
"The gold (author pays) open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts."
They publish anything for the right money. That all you got? No science at all?
And Indians are generally so rich, especially scientists.
'Jeffrey Beall came to prominence because of Beall’s List, which set out to document the existence of what Beall termed “predatory publishers.” Without addressing the question of whether Beall was right 100% of the time, I thought he was doing a good thing. There are inherent structural problems with Gold Open Access and sooner or later unscrupulous people were going to exploit them. Beall offered himself as the cop on the beat and helped to make ours a safer neighborhood. Kudos to him.
Since I first became aware of Beall’s List, however, I have been following some of Beall’s work with growing unease. Here and there some (to me) distasteful political ideology peeked through (with my pragmatic mindset, any kind of ideology makes me queasy), but you don’t have to agree with somebody all the time to agree with them some of the time. But now, in a recent screed, he has crossed the line. While I continue to admire Beall’s List, the broader critique (really an assault) of Gold OA and those who advocate it is too strong for me. Sorry, Jeffrey, but I’m not with you on this.
So what is that Beall is expounding? The following comes from the conclusion to his essay:
The open-access movement isn’t really about open access. Instead, it is about collectivizing production and denying the freedom of the press from those who prefer the subscription model of scholarly publishing.'
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/16/parting-company-with-jeffrey-beall...I guess you should choose your champions with care.
Also -
'Beall is not a recognized authority in evaluating scholarly Journals
Man with no credibility
Jeffrey Beall’s blog has no affiliation to any governing body or organization accredited to scholarly publishing. This is an important key element that needs to be considered when analyzing his blog. He is just a single individual writing a blog (full of nonsense) same as many others do over the internet. His blog is his personal opinion and has not been tested for its validity and as such has no authority whatsoever. Even so, Beall attempted to create a problem that does not exist. When we compare the number of open access journals around the world, Beall’s list is not significant at all. Despite that, Beall has maliciously discredited many Open access journals and demanded ransom in exchange for the removal of them from his hit list. This academic crime must end. We have added Jeffrey Beall to our list as a potential, possible, probable, predatory Blogger.'
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