On Jan 8, 2016, at 6:15 AM, Miguel Roig <[email protected]> wrote: > As I was reading Jeff's post, I noticed that the Journal of Fertilization: In > Vitro-IVF-Worldwide, Reproductive Medicine, Genetics & Stem Cell Biology is > published by Omics International, a publisher that has been flagged as being > predatory
Yes, I was aware of this. For example, according to Wikipedia: “OMICS Publishing Group is a publisher of open access journals that is widely regarded as predatory. It is part of the OMICS Group, based in Hyderabad, India. It issued its first publication in 2008. According to a 2012 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about 60 percent of the group's 200 journals had never actually published anything" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMICS_Publishing_Group) I briefly looked through some of the articles that López-Teijón and her colleagues have published in the past, and it seemed to me (after only a cursory examination, however) that several were of high quality and published in reputable journals. (But I need to look more closely at them to be sure.) It was this, plus the fact that recently I've seen the dubious claims about BabyPod popping up in various social media, that led me to take a closer look at what was going on here. Best, Jeff -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social/Behavioral Sciences Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Fax: (480) 423-6298 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJeffryRicker/timeline/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeffry-ricker/3b/511/438 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=47804 or send a blank email to leave-47804-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
