[CoDeP] Neicon 2017 talk - proposal for Committee

[Thomas Krichel]

  Jorge Miguel Streb writes

> Thanks for the presentation. It was helpful. 

  I did not think it would but I am plagued by low self-esteem.
  
> I think that the problem of journals with fake editorial members is easy to
> deal with. Less tractable are the journals that have real academic members on
> them, perhaps even some prestigious researchers on them (I get this feeling
> from some international financeconferences). Now I will forward you a message
> from a journal with an Editor-in-Chief who is on RePEc (however, the journal
> is not listed on RePEc).
> 
> You might not have a case of fake board members, but rather a case of very low
> quality research being published by these journals with real academic board
> members in exchange for a fee. Authors whose work is rejected in standard
> journals choose to publish their papers for a fee in these low-quality
> journals that do no real reviewing process. Here, you would have to inquire
> into the review process to determine that it is a fraud, but this is hard
> because it is anonymous (furhtermore, board members might say that they review
> the pieces, in which case I see no way of going further).

  Case in point, the following RePEc archive was just announced

Template-type: ReDIF-Archive 1.0
Handle: RePEc:nap
Name: Noble Academic Publisher
Maintainer-Name: NAP  Managing Editor
Maintainer-Email: info at napublisher.org
Description: NAP is one of the leading academic journal publisher. Noble
 Academic Publisher aims to identifying, exploring and nurturing intellectual
 human capital in the fields of Education & Business Management, Social
 Sciences & Humanities and inclined to attain a significant place in the world
 of academic research by its commendable activities. It is covering a wide
 range of academic disciplines. NAP serves the worldwide academic communities
 and contributes to the progress and application of social science and
 scientific knowledge by delivering scientific information and solution of
 research problems that permit advancement in scientific research.
URL:http://www.napublisher.org/working/RePEc/nap/
Homepage: http://www.napublisher.org/

  I looked at this. They are a start-up in Pakistan, they have
  have no basis to claim they are a "leading" academic publisher.
  From what I can see the papers are rubbish. But I would find
  it very hard to sanction this versus not sanctioning another
  publisher the papers of which would only be marginally less
  rubbish.

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