Saturday, January 29, 2022

Education and Self Development

19917740

Papers for E&SD may include studies in: - Pedagogy, adrogogy (adult learning) and heutogogy (self-determined learning) for individual or group learning; - Education for employment, access, equity and social inclusion; - Design, development and application of learning systems and tools; - Leadership and management in lifelong learning; - Curriculum development and course design; - Open, distance, blended and flipped learning; - Professional development for educational/organisational change; - Monitoring and quality assurance; - Formative and summative evaluation, assessment and research methods;

samorazvitie@mail.ru

Russian Federation

Kazan Federal University

AUTHOR GUIDELINES:

http://eandsdjournal.org/wp-stuff/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESD-Notes-for-authors-v6-1-English.pdf

E&SD publishes article in both Russian and English. All articles have their titles, abstract and keywords in both languages. However, the references must be in Roman script.

If you are interested in being considered for membership of the reviewer panel, please contact the Deputy Editor, Nick Rushby: nick.rushby@conation-technologies.co.uk

Publisher

Education and Self Development (E&SD) is published by Kazan Federal University (KFU)
See http://kpfu.ru/eng

Contact

"Education and Self Development"
Office 59, 1 Mezhlauk Street
Kazan 420021
Russia Federation

  +7 (843) 221 3475
  +7 (917) 904 9885
  samorazvitie@mail.ru

ISSN

ISSN 1991-7740

Frequency of Publication

E&SD publishes four print issues each year. It was established in June 2006

Impact Factor and Ranking

The Journal has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and is applying for inclusion in Web of Science. At present it has not established an impact factor or ranking but these will be forthcoming.

Open Access

E&SD is an online, open access journal fully funded by Kazan Federal University. The Journal is a signatory to the Budapest Open Access Initiative and is committed to ensuring that all of the articles we publish are freely available. Articles are available to all without charge, and there are no article processing charges (APCs) for authors.

SJRQ2-Psychology, Journal of the Higher School of Economics

Homepage

Russian Federation

How to publish in this journal

vpetrovsky@hse.ru

National Research University Higher School of Economics

18138918

Primary audience of the journal includes researchers and practitioners specializing in psychology, sociology, cultural studies, education, neuroscience, and management, as well as teachers and students of higher education institutions.

The manuscript should be submitted based on the requirements outlined in the APA Guidelines (7th Edition) APA 2020 7th Ed.pdf

A file containing metadata for the article; layout should be in accordance with the Metadata.pdf template (both in Russian and English).

NO payment is charged to the authors of manuscripts for publication and prepress preparation. Author’s (paper) copies of the issue in the required quantity are provided free of charge.

SJRQ2-Obrazovanie i Nauka-The Education and Science Journal

Homepage

ISSN 1994-5639 (Print)
ISSN 2310-5828 (Online)

How to publish in this journal

v.i.zagvyazinskij@utmn.ru

Russian Federation

Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University

An article can be sent to the editor using the journal's website or by e-mail to editor@edscience.ru or edscience@mail.ru

SJRQ1-EDUCATIONAL STUDIES MOSCOW- Voprosy Obrazovaniya

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

National Research University Higher School of Economics

Email: kouzminov@hse.ru

ISSN: 18149545, 24124354

Country: Russian Federation

All work should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) via email to: edu.journal@hse.ru.

Articles and lectures should typically be no more than 40,000 characters long, including spaces. This amounts to approximately 8,000 words in English.

The journal does not charge fee for processing articles.

No website search tool.

Four issues per year. About 12 papers per issue.

Target audience: Leading Russian universities, government bodies responsible for education, councils from federal and regional legislatures, institutions engaged in education research, public organizations and foundations with an interest in education.

Friday, January 28, 2022

SJRQ2-International Journal of Emerging Markets (IJEM)

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

ilan.alon@uia.no

Publisher: Emerald

Sample papers:

Framework and determinants of benchmarking: a theoretical analysis and case study in Vietnam

Monday, January 24, 2022

OpenAlex - Free index of 200 million papers

Massive open index of scholarly papers launches

OpenAlex catalogues hundreds of millions of scientific documents and charts connections between them.

Dalmeet Singh Chawla

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00138-y

An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched.

The index, called OpenAlex after the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt, also aims to chart connections between these data points to create a comprehensive, interlinked database of the global research system, say its founders. The database, which launched on 3 January, is a replacement for Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), a free alternative to subscription-based platforms such as Scopus, Dimensions and Web of Science that was discontinued at the end of 2021.

“It’s just pulling lots of databases together in a clever way,” says Euan Adie, founder of Overton, a London-based firm that tracks the research cited in policy documents. Overton had been getting its data from various sources, including MAG, ORCID, Crossref and directly from publishers, but has now switched to using only OpenAlex, in the hope of making the process easier.

Improved coverage

Microsoft’s move to close MAG, announced last May, worried some academics and others who used its data to conduct studies and build research tools.

In response to MAG’s closure, non-profit scholarly services firm OurResearch in Vancouver, Canada, created OpenAlex, using part of a US$4.5-million grant from London-based charity Arcadia Fund. The index is currently accessible through an application programming interface, or API, that can perform complex searches. A simpler search-engine interface is scheduled to launch in February.

OpenAlex draws its data from MAG’s existing records and from other sources including Wikidata identifiers, ORCID, Crossref and ROR, says Jason Priem, co-founder of OurResearch.

The tool is also integrated with the Unpaywall database, which contains more than 30 million open-access articles that Priem and OurResearch co-founder Heather Piwowar launched in 2017. “We now have much better coverage of open access than MAG ever did,” Priem says. “Not only can we tell you where the free-to-read copies of any particular article live, but we can also tell you the licence and the version of that article.”

Priem says that OpenAlex updates every fortnight by bringing in more data from its sources. The tool goes a step further towards openness than MAG did, because OpenAlex’s underlying code is freely available under a CC0 copyright licence for anyone to build on, says Priem. That means that if OpenAlex were to be discontinued, any researcher can pick up where Priem left off instead of having to rebuild the whole database from scratch.

Easy set-up

OpenAlex is also free to use, thanks to sponsorship from Amazon Web Services, and requires no registration or log-in information, making the process more user-friendly, says Priem. This differs from MAG, for which users had to log into Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-hosting system, and pay a small fee to download their data set. Priem says that his firm might consider rolling out a premium, pay-to-use tier of OpenAlex for users who want super-fast access, but a free up-to-date version will always be available.

It’s “written in such a way that’s very easy for somebody to pick up and use”, says Adie. He adds that it took him only about 20 minutes to get started on OpenAlex, compared with three to four days with MAG. “The downside is that Microsoft had a lot of technical capability that they could apply to Microsoft Academic. So we’ll have to see how OurResearch does without that,” Adie says.

Roar Bakken Stovner, who studies researchers’ citations patterns at Oslo Metropolitan University, says that it took him around two hours to start working with OpenAlex, compared with around a week with MAG. “For somebody who is more computer savvy, MAG might be easier,” he says. “For researchers who want to try small projects on their own, OpenAlex will be way easier to start with.”

Frode Opdahl, chief executive of Keenious, a start-up firm based in Tromsø, Norway, which scans millions of papers to suggest relevant references, says he’s pleased with the documentation published about OpenAlex. “It makes it a lot easier to work with and implement into our product,” he says.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00138-y

Saturday, January 22, 2022

SJRQ4-WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics

World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society

11099526

Beall list: The publisher is.

Scopus: Yes active as of December 2021

Friday, January 21, 2022

SJRQ4-Cuadernos de Economía (Spain)

Country: Spain

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

cuadernos.economia@uam.es

Sample papers:

Macroeconomic Impact of Mandatory Retirement Age Policy to Population Aging in Thailand

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Hijacked Journal: STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION

Beware submitting papers to this journal using this domain:

http://studies-in-symbolicinteraction.com/submit.html

From: STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION <newrelease@mezoxinia.solutions>

Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:42 PM
Subject: Dear Colleague!, Please note our new Invitation for the submission of Original Research Articles
To:

Dear Author!

We have reviewed your other research manuscripts which are accessible on the internet. We are so indulged to invite you to submit any of your other new works to our periodical.

I would like to inform you that our esteemed journal "STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION" is a leading international journal reporting developments and advances in various fields of science and technologies. It publishes original papers, research notes and reviews in English. The Journal is published 12 times a year on monthly basis. STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION also covers some special issues depending on scientific events within the year. The journal will be published twice a year in hard copy format. Each volume consists of 6 parts divided upon the articles accepted each month with editorials, reviews, original research, evidence based reviews, letters and more. We are happy to announce that the Five-Year- impact factor for STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION Journal is now 0.250 with an average impact factor 1.000 as released by Thomson Reuters (JCR 2020) .

Journal Information
ISSN: 0163-2396
Average Impact Factor: 1.000
Coverage: Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Thomson Reuters), Scopus,
EMERALD
Web of Science
Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
Zoological Record
BIOSIS Previews
DOAJ
CIRC
SJR

Article submission page:
http://studies-in-symbolicinteraction.com/submit.html

POLICIES

General Considerations
• Papers that are published or held by the Journal should not be published elsewhere without written permission from the journal.
• STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION reserves the right to edit all papers for style, clarity, etc.
• Authors are responsible to obtain copyright permission for the material (figures, tables, texts, etc.) they include in their papers from other sources if required.
• STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION reserves the right to reproduce published papers in full or in part in other media.

Review Policies
• Papers sent to STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION should not be submitted elsewhere for evaluation or publication.
• All papers will be double blind peer reviewed by 2-3 expert reviewers with 2 weeks from the submission time.
• Final decision to include the paper in the journal is made by the editorial board members only.

Regards
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Dr. N. J. Denzin, England
Office: HOWARD HOUSE, WAGON LANE, BINGLEY, ENGLAND, W YORKSHIRE

Over 400 Pakistani Researchers Caught Publishing In Fake Journals

by News Desk

January 18, 2022

Over 400 Pakistani academics and researchers have been submitting research papers to a fake academic journal with approximately 150 falsified studies published since 2019, it has emerged.

https://www.thefridaytimes.com/over-400-pakistani-researchers-caught-publishing-in-fake-journals/

The papers were published in a so-called ‘clone journal,’ deceptively named, ‘‘International Journal of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity’ (IJDRBC), as reported by The News. A ‘clone journal’ refers to an academic publication which mimics or copies the name of a reputable journal in order to gain credibility and help academics garner their much sought after publication credits.

While some academics may have been truly deceived, others apparently were aware that the journal was a counterfeit. Standard practice dictates that researchers should verify the authenticity of any journal through the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan’s (HEC) Journal Recognition System (HJRS) before submission. Additionally, the journal often published four to five papers written by the same author, a practice frowned upon in academia.

Researchers from both the public and private sector were found published in the pirated journal, including the legal director-general of the Pakistan Procurement Authority, as well as academics from the Bahria University, Riphah University, University of Peshawar, University of Sargodha, Punjab University, Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar, Islamic International University Islamabad, University of Swat, University of Sindh, among others.

In October, the HEC came under criticism for failing to monitor the proliferation of ‘clone journals’ among researchers in the country. At the time, the HEC responded by saying it would ‘strengthen‘ the HJRS.

Monday, January 17, 2022

Browser Extension Adds Sci-Hub Download Links to Publishers’ Websites

https://torrentfreak.com/browser-extension-adds-sci-hub-download-links-to-publishers-websites-220117/

As scientists and academics of all kinds turn to Sci-Hub to freely access scientific papers, a new browser tool aims to make access even more straightforward. Currently available from the Mozilla addon store but also compatible with Chrome, 'Sci-Hub Injector' embeds Sci-Hub download links into popular publishers' websites.

Given its reputation for tearing down paywalls to deliver knowledge and enlightenment to academics, students and researchers, Sci-Hub remains one of the internet’s most valuable data resources.

Praised by all who find its services useful or even vital, Sci-Hub also has to deal with attacks from publishing giants who would prefer to see the platform taken offline, or blocked by ISPs wherever that is a viable option.

Unfortunately for the publishers, however, those utilizing Sci-Hub tend to be tech-savvy individuals who are not only undeterred by blocks but can also have a penchant for making downloading even easier.

Sci-Hub Injector Released

The latter mission was recently taken on by Rick Wierenga, a student currently doing a double major in bioinformatics & artificial intelligence (Bachelor) at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Over the weekend Wierenga released an interesting new browser tool that turns the finding of Sci-Hub download links into child’s play.

Named ‘Sci-Hub Injector’ and released under GNU General Public License v3.0, the browser extension is easy to deploy in Firefox and is installable in Chrome with a simple few steps. Its main feature is to embed Sci-Hub download links into publishers’ own websites meaning that if someone was searching for a paper on SpringerLink, on the topic of aquatic animal nutrition, for example, they will see the enhanced results shown below:

https://torrentfreak.com/browser-extension-adds-sci-hub-download-links-to-publishers-websites-220117/

As the image above shows, in this instance the extension seamlessly adds a very subtle Sci-Hub logo and link next to the download counter but button placement can vary on other sites. In any event, pressing the button takes the user straight to Sci-hub where the corresponding paper may be downloaded for free (rather than a minimum of £127.50 for the book in the example above).

Works on Firefox and Chrome

As things currently stand, Sci-Hub injector is available for download from the Mozilla addon store. The software also works with Chrome but is yet to appear on Google’s Play Store. Until that happens, users are required to follow some simple setup instructions listed on the project’s Github page to get the tool up and running.

https://torrentfreak.com/browser-extension-adds-sci-hub-download-links-to-publishers-websites-220117/

At the time of writing, Sci-Hub Injector appears to be a project still under development. It currently supports several publishing platforms including PubMed, Nature, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier / ScienceDirect, Eureka Select, Science and SpringerLink but the developer says that he’s open to adding new platforms, if users submit them.

“Inject freedom into science publisher websites, with style. Please contribute new websites!” Wierenga says.

Is it Legal?

While offering a direct link to an infringing copy of a scientific paper can be considered infringement in many regions of the world, Sci-Hub injector merely links to a Sci-Hub page, not the infringing content itself.

Furthermore, the link is embedded in the publishers’ websites only in the user’s local browser, so at least on the part of the user, no distribution takes place. Only when the user visits Sci-Hub and actually downloads a paper does a potentially infringing copy get made but that’s the case no matter what mechanism is used to find and visit the site.

In any event, Wierenga advises users to be cautious, depending on the law in their region.

“I don’t recommend doing things that go against whatever laws that apply where you are. This is the user’s responsibility,” he adds.

TorrentFreak reached out to Wierenga for additional information but he declined to comment at this time.

The idea of ‘pimping’ official websites with new data isn’t new. Way back in 2008, a team created ‘Pirates of the Amazon’, a Firefox addon that embedded Pirate Bay links to movies into the Amazon website. A few years later, a similar tool appeared that did the same for eBooks, this time pulling content from Libgen.

Hijacked journal-International Journal of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (IJDRBC)

The International Journal of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (IJDRBC) has been exposed as a clone journal—a substandard journal that copies the name of a reputable one—containing fake papers written by over 400 Pakistani academics. This is a reflection of the academic integrity of most Pakistani professionals, and shamefully so. We already make limited contributions to the world of academics in comparison to the world and if those are deceitful as well then this is to our detriment.

https://nation.com.pk/17-Jan-2022/academic-integrity

The IJDRBC contained research compiled by individuals across various fields including both the private and public sector. The authors either knew the fact that it was a clone journal and proceeded to publish their work anyways or were deceived themselves. Regardless of which situation it was, the matter remains that the papers themselves were fake as well. In reality, this meant that substandard and unoriginal work was published in a journal that has no international or local recognition. If this is the state of our academic output, then our higher education sector is in immense trouble.

The Higher Education Commission’s Journal Recognition System (HJRS) exists for a reason; to gain legitimacy and for contributors to know where their work will end up. Special care should be given to this process of verification by the HEC as well as the scholars themselves. For 400 authors to send their work for publishing in the journal entails that it was rather well-known in the academic circle. This should have been picked up by the HEC and an investigation should have been launched. Similarly, those authors who were deceived themselves should have checked the verification of the journal themselves as well. It is vital that stringent measures are taken now at least as there is open knowledge of such tradition in the country.

The HEC must curb this phenomenon at the earliest. Our higher education standards will suffer without the presence of any reputable original work. Furthermore, this paints a rather disheartening picture for future scholars who may be put on the backfoot purely because our systems have not worked well enough to legitimise the world of local academic research. More must be done to improve standards.

Is this real or fake?:

https://submission.nadiapub.com/index.php/ijdrbc/information/readers

For sure fake for so many reasons...

How about this site? Real or fake?:

https://nadiapub.com/journals/ijdrbc/

Croatian editor and Tasmanian business address....hmmmmmm

Real or fake?:

https://ores.su/en/journals/international-journal-of-disaster-recovery-and-business-continuity/

Names are the same but the ISSNs are different...

Thursday, January 13, 2022

SJRQ3-Trends in Science (Walailak Journal of Science and Technology-WJST)

Walailak Journal of Science and Technology (WJST) has been renamed as Trends in Sciences (TiS) (ISSN 2774-0226 (Online)) in order to clarify our objectives and academic scope. The TiS was launched in October 2021 in order to raise its international visibility and improve its position.

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Phongpichit Channuie, School of Science, Walailak University, Thasala, Nakhon Si Thammarat 80161, Thailand

TIS ISSN: 2774-0226

WJST ISSNS: 16863933, 2228835X

Publication fee: NO Article Submission Charges & NO Article Processing Charges (APC)

Walailak Journal of Science and Technology is published 24 Issues (Semi-monthly) by the College of Graduate Studies of Walailak University. The scope of the journal includes the following areas of research: Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Applied Sciences (WJST Template 2020). (View full editorial policies)

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

SJRQ3-Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies (EEJET)

Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies

Ukraine

The journal is published bimonthly.

For authors from other countries:

Payment for the publication of an article is EUR 25.00 per page submitted for publication and prepared according to the Requirements (after the review procedure and the decision to publish);
The cost of 1 printed copy of the journal is EUR 80.00 euro with delivery. The electronic version of the article is provided free of charge. All articles are in the public domain – archive
EUR 50.00 is an advance payment which is paid in accordance with clause 3 of the Rules for submitting a manuscript

Rules of Article Forming (download)