There is something strange going on with the once-Canadian journal
"Experimental & Clinical Cardiology". It was published by the Pulsus
Publishing Groups but they sold it to some "strangers from New York"
(NOTE: I was not involved) who then flipped to some unknown entity.
And for $1,200 you too can get published in the journal. Just make
sure you come up with a snappy title for your article like:
"Enter Paper Title".
The website "New Scientist" has a brief news article on this; see:
http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/40865/title/Predatory-Journal-Trading-on-Former-Name/
The "Ottawa Citizen" website had a reporter look into the shenanigans
at ECC and here is a link to his article:
http://ottawacitizen.com/technology/science/respected-medical-journal-turns-to-dark-side
They submitted an article to ECC that was based on a published study
of HIV but they replaced "HIV" with "cardiac" in the text. The original
paper
refers to graphs but the "updated" article had no graphs. It was
accepted as is. At $1,200 a pop, it is reported that the July issue had
142 article which translates into $170,000. What better incentive
would a young entrepreneur need to buy the rights to an established
journal and then publish all articles submitted to it for a nice fee?
I wonder if the title "Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society" is
available? ;-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
P.S. The "Ottawa Citizen" article mentions the U of Colorado librarian
Jeffrey Beall who runs the website "Scholarly Open Access" which also
has an article on this mess, in addition to many other academic messes.
The Wikipedia entry for Jeffrey Beall can be accessed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Beall
To access the Scholarly Open Access website, see:
http://scholarlyoa.com/
To access the article on SOA on the ECC mess, see:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/07/08/cardiology-journals-decline-is-heartbreaking/#more-3838
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