tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660192132439612803.post264026915482346714..comments2024-03-23T22:25:04.207-04:00Comments on Flaky Academic Journals: Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge (RIPK)DH Kayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329862957840849989noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660192132439612803.post-56681027302194416602022-01-29T12:05:35.238-05:002022-01-29T12:05:35.238-05:00The papers published are readily available online ...The papers published are readily available online and may be found on Research Gate or Google Scholar. Information on "reads" and "downloads" are likewise available. Instead of exhibiting a profound ignorance and prejudice, perhaps based on the fact that many of these journals are published in emerging economies, or in the developing world, as opposed to in the "erudite" West, why not read the article and see if it has merit? Academics are often such snobs: we parcel out decisions on "worth" or "value" (or even relating to tenure/promotion) to nameless and faceless deans from Australia or GB... or to a discredited fired professor from Colorado; or to a publishing house that itself charges a fee just to see if a journal, in their opinion, has merit... but who will guaranty publication somewhere for a fee,,,where this same discredited professor now finds himself... iAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12089372999873951947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660192132439612803.post-84813607844741273822018-11-06T18:40:20.013-05:002018-11-06T18:40:20.013-05:001. The fact that DRJI indiscriminately includes fa...1. The fact that DRJI indiscriminately includes fake journals does not necessarily mean that DRJI itself is not a legitimate enterprise. It just means they might consider raising the bar a wee bit regarding their standards. Probably a part of the problem is that, as presently constituted, its editorial board does not cover a sufficiently wide spectrum of disciplines to permit much if any exercise of discretion in what it chooses to include.<br /><br />2. I am in the Humanities and charging money for publishinga journal article is unheard-of us for us. I have no idea if this is true in other disciplines. I do no know that there are a number of firms, mostly German, which require a subvention to publish a monograph (such as German Habilitationschriften). But almost always the money in question comes from the author's home institution rather than out of his/her own pocket. Whatever you may choose to make out of this custom, at least it is open and aboveboard, the publications in question have been subject to a normally stringent review process, and there is no attempt at deception.Dana Suttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13106326688077165801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660192132439612803.post-75906937312734884072018-11-06T18:21:43.446-05:002018-11-06T18:21:43.446-05:00I scarcely meant to imply that RIPK itself is a bo...I scarcely meant to imply that RIPK itself is a bogus publication (although it is perhaps a little troubling that the sciences are not represented by any member of its editorial board).Nor did I mean that all the stuff published in these fly-by-night journals is necessarily fraudulent in its contents.<br /><br />What I meant to convey is that these quickie sites that will publish just about anything by anybody for money, while exercising little if any editorial control over their contents, are manifestly a form of vanity publishing. I would imagine they mostly do business with struggling young scholars faced with the need to satisfy their local Promotion and Tenure Committee with a list of publications but for one reason or another find themselves unable to do so, desperately resort to such outlets in the hope they can bamboozle said Committee into finding their publications satisfactory (although I imagine this is a strategy that seldom if ever works). Beyond this attempt at pulling off a shabby swindle I don't see anything especially wrong or criminal about it. But I don't see anything right with it either. Sometimes a good article will be rejected by a journal for bad reasons, but if the author keeps plugging away he or she can eventually find a reputable one glad to accept it. If it is universally rejected, then there must be somethings seriously wrong with it, and the deliberate presentation of falsified information is only one of many possible such reasons. But anybody who chooses to go this rout forever brands himself as a bottom-feeder within our profession. It's a very public way of committing professional suicide.Dana Suttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13106326688077165801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660192132439612803.post-8140642386314295782018-11-06T11:18:34.813-05:002018-11-06T11:18:34.813-05:00It appears that a vanity press (a journal that wil...It appears that a vanity press (a journal that will publish virtually anything submitted to it for a fee) would qualify for inclusion in the directory you mention. The website states that "[c]ontinued presence of the journal's issues is the main motto for journal indexing." <br />Academic journals should engage in meaningful review and editing. To be sure, these steps cannot guarantee that fraudulent research will always be detected. And, charging an author for open access publication following serious review and competent editing is not the problem. But journals that spam indiscriminately for submissions and editorial board members do not always provide these services.DH Kayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09329862957840849989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660192132439612803.post-84288295311814130452018-11-06T09:50:51.263-05:002018-11-06T09:50:51.263-05:00I have checked and found that RIPK's internati...I have checked and found that RIPK's international journal for Education and Social Science is listed in the Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI).<br />http://olddrji.lbp.world/JournalProfile.aspx?jid=2410-5171<br /><br />What could be the reason for all these negative comments about this journal? Is DRJI a fake directory?<br /><br />Kindly let me understand.<br />I have been checking a journal listed with Springer (a leading publisher). That journal is charging $3000 to publish an article. Now what is this noise of payment for publication?<br /><br />Recently a leading Harvard professor of medicine owned to having published fake research findings for over 30 years in the so called reputable journals. I am yet to hear a the involved publisher apologise for this fiacso.<br /><br />I here about fake publishers, but does it mean the publications themselves are fake? I see hundreds upon hundreds of authors publish in RIPK journals, how come I am yet to hear any one of them disciplined for publicising fake findings?<br /><br />Could someone help me get answers.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06921792228126109595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660192132439612803.post-869817401046390232018-03-01T05:52:47.024-05:002018-03-01T05:52:47.024-05:00More generally, what are these racketeers all abou...More generally, what are these racketeers all about? And their close cousins who organize academic conferences in such faraway places as Samarkand and Taprobane? Here's my guess: these are the modern equivalent of vanity presses, operated for the benefit of poor non-productive sheep who are willing to fork over a few hundred bucks to dummy up fake bibliographies and records of other academic achievements in the forlorn hope that they can fool their institution's Committee on Promotion and Tenure into not recommending the termination they so richly deserve. The faraway conferences of course never convene, doubtless all you get for your money is a certificate of attendance you can place in your personnel file. But that's precisely what you want, right?Dana Suttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13106326688077165801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660192132439612803.post-47092622139822608212018-03-01T05:46:40.711-05:002018-03-01T05:46:40.711-05:00To my considerable surprise, Dr. Laurie J Wolf ac...To my considerable surprise, Dr. Laurie J Wolf actually exists. She is an Associate Prof. of Theatre at William and Mary, as advertised (and therefore is presumably a tenured member of the faculty), has a UCLA PhD, and has taught at Goldsmith College, London. I profoundly hope they just picked her name out of a hat and she has no voluntary association with these charlatans.Dana Suttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13106326688077165801noreply@blogger.com