[CoDeP] Betham editorial board

[BOUNADER Lahcen]

Dear Gunn,

Thank you very much for your feedback.

Very best,

2016-12-09 19:30 GMT+00:00 Moira Ann Gunn <gunn at usfca.edu>:

> Hi-
>
> I know the editors, and they are highly professional and well-respected. I
> believe they went with Bentham because they wanted to start a journal and
> they didn't want to have to publish it themselves.
>
> My experience in submitting articles - the first article's response from
> the peer reviewer was devastating - called for a major rewrite - not all of
> the comments were acceptable to me, but the majority made it a much better
> paper. I spent a solid 40 hours revising, which I hadn't planned on
> spending.
>
> They asked me on the review board, which I did - this is an area that is
> not easy to find journals for. I reviewed one article, and recommended
> REJECT - while it could have been viable, it was badly written and I
> thought there might be a conflict of interest between one of the authors
> and the subject matter.  They rejected it.
>
> I do know that when you submit, that you are asked for reviewers (which I
> hate, but I'm beginning to see a lot of), and they ask if you want to pay
> for open access (just like PLOS) but you don't have to, and they offer
> services for re-doing your graphics (which I rejected) - they asked again
> after it was accepted about paying for services.
>
> They wanted to charge for color (like Science) and I said no, but when it
> went up in the journal, it was in color. I got 5 free copies of my article,
> and within a year, the article was free anyway.
>
> If it wasn't for the editors of the journal that I eventually came to
> know, I wouldn't have joined the board.
>
> Anything predatory here that I don't know about?
>
> Moira
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:16 AM, BOUNADER Lahcen <lahcen.bouna at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dr. Gunna,
>>
>>   A company called "Bentham Science" lists you on the editorial board
>>   of their journal "Technology transfer and entrepreneurship"
>>
>> http://benthamscience.com/journals/technology-transfer-and-e
>> ntrepreneurship/editorial-board/#top
>>
>>  Are you aware of this? If you are have you ever done any work for
>>   them?
>>
>>   The reason why I'm asking is that the company want to have their
>>   data indexed with RePEc, see http://repec.org. Bentham have a bad
>>   reputation, but I want to check them for deceptive practices rather
>>   than just rejet"oh we heard you're no good" reasons.
>> --
>> Bounader Lahcen
>>
>>
>


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Bounader Lahcen
Economic Research
Economic Department, MED V-Agdal.
Rabat, Morocco.
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