Friends of open access

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Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon youhttps: //scholarlyoa.

netI looked at the site above, and on the allegations, he makes against Beall JeffreyI would like to clarify the following1-It seems that the site is not official, and those who are responsible for it areunknown and they call themselves Friends of Open Access or a group oflibrarians did not say, publishers or university professors, they did not mentionany name or institution sponsoring the site.2-I read most of their claims about Beall Jaffrey's criteria, and it is incorrect.

Thecriteria of Beall Jeffrey consist of about 40 items, and all of them are logical.

And through it, the predatory journal is published quickly, without evaluation, and without classifying the article in international databases.3-It focuses on the standard of publishing fees only, which is one of the criteriaand does not mean that every journal that asks for fees is a predatory journal.4-The site uses the same name as the Beall list but has a.

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com, It violates publishing ethics and exploits the reputation of the well-knownand well-known website.5-Below are the links to Beall Jeffrey scientific pages, which shows the credibilityof his articles published in reputable international journals.

He has more than1000 citations in the Scopus database, and more than 3000 total citations in alljournals-https: //scholar.

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uri? authorId=88696892006-Beall's main website was suspended in 2017, there are many websites now thatrely on Beall Jeffrey's criteria, but most of them are unofficial, and it maydemand sums from journals to be removed from the list.7-This site claims the existence of lawsuits against Bell Jefri and does not provideany evidence for that.