Publicámos no passado dois calls para duas revistas que se vieram a revelar predatory publishers, a Journal of Education & Social Policy e a Journal of Education and Human Development. Pelo facto, pedimos desculpa aos nossos leitores e aproveitamos este infeliz evento para fazer alguns alertas acerca desta conduta desonesta.
Estas publicações usam abusivamente o nome de pessoas para o seu comité editorial sem o consentimento das mesmas. Este foi o email que recebemos de Jain Kwon, que era supostamente a chefe editorial do Journal of Education & Social Policy:
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From: Jain Kwon
Date: 2017-11-21 17:08 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: Research Paper
To: xxxxxxx
Hello xxxxxxx,
I am not at all associated with the journal and have no knowledge about the publisher. A number of researchers have informed me that the publisher has been using my name for solicitation and money-requests. The publisher claiming US-based asks authors to send publication fees to a bank in Bangladesh. The researchers also expressed their concerns about not being able to communicate with the publisher who had also never responded to my emails.
I have learned that several professors in the US, including myself, have been in the same situation. I have consulted UGA attorneys and also contacted ISBN and informed about this matter. Unfortunately, UGA attorneys say that I cannot take any further action at this point because the publisher has not financially harmed me.
The journal seems fraudulent. Please feel free to share this information with others who might consider submitting their papers to the journal.
Regards,
Jain Kwon, PhD
Assistant Professor of Art
Interior Design Program
Lamar Dodd School of Art
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Pode ser consultado neste site uma lista dos chamados predatory publishers. No caso das duas revistas mencionadas, elas não aparecem directamente, porque são ambas de duas plataformas supostamente detentoras de vários títulos: a Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI) e a American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD). No entanto, estas plataformas já aparecem no referido site.
Aconselha-se todos os interessados a lerem esta informação antes de submeterem os seus artigos e a verificarem igualmente os critérios para se determinar se estamos perante um predatory publisher.
