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Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science
Pseudo-scholar Google Scholar is the world’s largest and most-used academic search engine, yet it is increasingly becoming polluted with junk science, making it a potentially dangerous database for...
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Open-Access Physics Journal Accommodates Authors Blacklisted from arXiv
Dark matter. Progress in Physics is an open-access journal that publishes articles unsuitable for mainstream physics journals. Among other roles, it provides desperate authors, some of whom have been...
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The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing...
AIDS Denialism Another day, another report of a junk science article published by China-based publisher Scientific Research Publishing, or SCIRP. This publisher specializes in publishing junk cosmology...
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I’m Following a Fringe Science Paper on F1000Research
The article I’m following. I am following the progress of the article “Culture and identification of Borrelia spirochetes in human vaginal and seminal secretions” in the journal F1000Research, which is...
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Anti-Roundup (Glyphosate) Researchers Use Easy OA Journals to Spread their Views
Toxic journal. I’ve added the journal Interdisciplinary Toxicology (interTOX) to my list. The journal is associated with the Slovak Toxicology Society (SETOX). In my opinion the journal is not aimed at...
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Open-Access Publisher McMed International Helps Authors Needing a Fast...
Fast publication I recently learned of the new open-access publisher McMed International. Everything about this publisher is amateurish and even childish. Its website feels like it was designed for...
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More Published Pseudo-Science from Chinese Publisher SCIRP
Vanity press If you are a bogus scientist who wants to publish a fake scientific article, I’d like to recommend SCIRP, Scientific Research Publishing. They’d be happy to have you as a customer. They’ve...
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The Growing Parallel Economy in Scholarly Publishing
Scientific Object Identifier ? There is increasing evidence of a parallel economy developing around the scholarly publishing industry. The components of this parallel economy include predatory...
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Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal
Outreach to nuts. OMICS International (formerly OMICS Publishing Group) has named Chandra Wickramasinghe editor-in-chief of its strangely-titled Journal of Astrobiology & Outreach. Wickramasinghe’s...
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The Increasing Use of Predatory Journals for “Advocacy Research”
This article concludes, “Current asbestos-related regulations are irrational.” A recent article in the National Review used the term “advocacy research” to describe unscientific articles published in...
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