Double Publication Expert: Gopal B. Thapa

Gopal B. Thapa from School of Environment, Resources and Development at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand is an expert in Agricultural Sustainability, Forestry, Land management in developed countries.
He is in the Editorial board of Environmental management Journal.
Thapa is also an expert in double publication. He likes to publish the same article twice in two different international journals. Some titles were just slightly changed, and some contents just slightly changed.








Here are some of his greatest achivements:

R. P. Neupane and G. B. Thapa
Impact of agroforestry intervention on farm income under the subsistence farming system of the middle hills, Nepal. Agroforestry Systems Volume 53, 2001, Number 1, 31-37,
http://www.springerlink.com/content/h66j297m041610w0/

R. P. Neupane and G. B. Thapa
Impact of agroforestry intervention on soil fertility and farm income under the subsistence farming system of the middle hills, Nepal
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment Volume 84, Issue 2, April 2001, Pages 157-167
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880900002036


Golam Rasul, Gopal B. Thapa,
Sustainability Analysis of Ecological and Conventional Agricultural Systems in Bangladesh
World Development Volume 31, Issue 10, October 2003, Pages 1721-1741
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X03001372
pdf here: http://www.china-sds.org/kcxfzbg/addinfomanage/lwwk/data/kcx1308.pdf

Golam Rasul, Gopal B. Thapa,
Sustainability of ecological and conventional agricultural systems in Bangladesh: an assessment based on environmental, economic and social perspectives
Agricultural Systems Volume 79, Issue 3, March 2004, Pages 327-351
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X03000908
pdf here http://data2.xjlas.ac.cn:81/UploadFiles/sdz/cnki/%E5%A4%96%E6%96%87/ELSEVIER/ecological%20agriculture/11.pdf



Golam Rasul, Gopal B. Thapa,
Determinants of land-use changes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Applied Geography Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 217-240
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622804000025

Golam Rasul, Gopal B. Thapa,
Patterns and determinants of agricultural systems in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Agricultural Systems Volume 84, Issue 3, June 2005, Pages 255-277
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X04001349

Academic Journals

Academic Journals based somewhere in Africa has numerous journals
http://www.academicjournals.org/
From medical to Social Sciences
International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences
Journal of Medicinal Plant Research
African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
and so on
There is no address or person to contact on the front page

On the website it said:
"ACADEMIC JOURNALS provides free access to research information to the international community without financial, legal or technical barriers. All the journals from this organization will be freely distributed and available from multiple websites"

Well, the catch is there is a HANDLING FEE which costs from $550 to $750 per paper.
So if you want to get your papers published, submit it to any of the journals published by Academic Journals

Some of the journals are listed on ISI Science Citation Index

How to improve your impact factor?

A great article by Smeyers and Burbules

The authors also highlight how people manipulate the impact factor, and suggest some ways you can manipulate and play the game. Read it here
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00787.x/full

Here are the tips:

• Forget about society and education in general.
• Find a research area that is flourishing and blessed with a large number of ISI journals.
• Limit your research interest to a minute aspect that is distinctly associated with you, and which can be addressed empirically.
• While you need not limit yourself to quantitative methods, bear in mind that these are always to be preferred.
• If you can at all, avoid case studies.
• Look for friends with whom you can swap cites.
• Cite your own work often, and cite lots of articles from the journal in which you want to publish.
• Do good work by all means, but above all be sure to publish findings that are controversial and widely debated … Then sit back and watch your impact factor grow.

Scientific Research

Scientific Research http://www.scirp.org/Index.aspx, an open access journal boasts a more than 150  journals in science, technology & medicine

The catch you can publish anything by paying the right price
The company apparently based in California, belongs to a Chinese publishing mafia

Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert

Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert is in the editorial board of the following 3 journals

1. Environmental Science and Pollution Research
2. Journal of Soils and Sediments
3. Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung (now called Environmental Sciences Europe)

And Henner Toni likes to publish in these 3 journals and cite himself and the journals he edited very much.

From 130 publications, he has published 39 papers in Umweltwissenschaften Und Schadstoff Forschung, 28 papers in Environmental Science and Pollution Research and 25 in Journal of Soils and Sediments.

He single handedly has been responsible to bring Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR) and  Journal of Soils and Sediments (JSS) to high impact factors.
For example in 2007, he had cited 70 times Environmental Science and Pollution Research and 30 times Journal of Soils and Sediments.
The Environmental Science and Pollution Research journal has 50% self citation and Journal of Soils and Sediments has 36% self citation in the impact factor calculation!
Now Henner is bringing Environmental Sciences Europe to all time high self citation so can get a high impact factor.


He's proud of it and write about it as well

The first impact factor : In June 2008, Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published an impact factor of 4.373 for J Soils Sediments (JSS) Hollert, H., Heinrich, A.B., Seiler, T.-B. 2008 Journal of Soils and Sediments 8 (4), pp. 203-205

Toni likes to write editorials, notably he has written 32 editorials for the 3 journals.
He also likes to write Accolades, the following accolades appear 4 times in all different 4 journals, with the same content but varying authors

• Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our managing-editor Hollert, H., Young, A.L., Klöpffer, W., Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Xu, Z. 2008 Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung 20 (3), pp. 157-158
• Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our Managing-Editor Young, A.L., Klöpffer, W., Hollert, H., Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Xu, Z. 2008 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 15 (4), pp. 291-292
• Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our managing-editor Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Xu, Z., Young, A.L., Klöpffer, W., Hollert, H. 2008 Journal of Soils and Sediments 8 (3), pp. 149-150
• Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our Managing-Editor Klöpffer, W., Young, A.L., Hollert, H., Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Xu, Z. 2008 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 13 (4), pp. 287-288

From Web of knowledge we know that Henner has a 50% self citation rate

Sum of the Times Cited  : 1329
Sum of Times Cited without self-citations : 703
Sum of self citations: 676 (47%)

Accolade to Toni Hollert, our environmental science polluter!

International Digital Organization for Scientific Information

http://idosi.org/index.htm
ISI Listed journals based in Iran, with journals:


[ American Eurasian J Agri Envir Sci ]

[ Global Veterinaria ]

[ World Appl Sci J ]

[ World J Zool ]

American Eurasian[  J Toxicol Sci ]

[ Middle East J Sci Resear ]

[ Academic J Entomol ]

[ World Journal Fish & Marine Sci ]

The International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

Taken From: http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0278

“The International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation (IJNSNS) has dominated the impact-factor charts in the “Mathematics, Applied” category. It took first place in each year 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, generally by a wide margin, and came in second in 2005. However, IJNSNS is nowhere near the top of its field. Thus we set out to understand the origin of its large impact factor. In 2008 IJNSNS had an impact factor of 8.91 in ISI’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The second and third highest impact factors, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (CPAM) and SIAM Review (SIREV), only have impact factors of 3.69 and 2.80, respectively, in 2008. Both journals have a reputation for excellence.”

The making of the high impact factor of IJNSNS.

“The top-citing author to IJNSNS in 2008 was the journal’s editor-in-chief, Ji-Huan He, who cited the journal (within the two-year window) 243 times. The second top citer, D. D. Ganji, with 114 cites, is also a member of the editorial board, as is the third, regional editor Mohamed El Naschie, with 58 cites. Together these three account for 29% of the citations counted toward the impact factor. For comparison, the top three citers to SIREV contributed only 7, 4, and 4 citations, respectively, accounting for less than 12% of the counted citations, and none of these authors is involved in editing the journal. For CPAM the top three citers (9, 8, and 8) contributed about 7% of the citations and, again, were not on the editorial board.”

 “Citations to IJNSNS are concentrated within the two-year window used in the impact factor calculation. The 2008 citations to articles published since 2000 shows that 16% of the citations to CPAM fell within that two-year window and only 8% of those to SIREV did; in contrast, 71.5% of the 2008 citations to IJNSNS fell within the two-year window. A single issue of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series provided the greatest number of IJNSNS citations, 294 citations accounting for more than 20% of its impact factor. This issue was the proceedings of a conference organized by IJNSNS editor-in-chief He at his home university. He was responsible for the peer review of the issue. The second top-citing journal for IJNSNS was Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis, which contributed 206 citations (14%), again with all citations coming from a single issue. This was a special issue with Ji-Huan He as the guest editor; his co-editor, Lan Xu, is also on the IJNSNS editorial board. J.-H. Continuing down the list of IJNSNS high-citing journals, another similar circumstance comes to light: 50 citations from a single issue of the Journal of Polymer Engineering (which, like IJNSNS, is published by Freund), guest edited by the same pair, Ji-Huan He and Lan Xu. However, third place is held by the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, with 154 citations spread over numerous issues. In 2008 Ji-Huan He served on the editorial board of CS&F, and its editor-in-chief was Mohamed El Naschie, who was also a coeditor of IJNSNS. In a highly publicized case, the entire editorial board of CS&F was recently replaced, but El Naschie remained coeditor of IJNSNS.

Bibliometrics are also used to evaluate individuals, articles, institutions, and even nations. Essential Science Indicators, which is produced by Thomson Reuters, is promoted as a tool for ranking “top countries, journals, scientists, papers, and institutions by field of research”. The special issue of Journal of Physics: Conference Series that He edited and that garnered 243 citations for his journal also garnered 353 citations to He himself. He claims a total citation count of over 6,800. ScienceWatch.com notices that “according to a recent analysis of Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Scientific, Professor Ji-Huan He has been named a Rising Star in the field of Computer Science…
http://sciencewatch.com/inter/aut/2008/08-apr/08aprHe/
His citation record in the Web of Science includes 137 papers cited a total of 3,193 times to date.” He was cited by ESI for the “Hottest Research of 2007–8” and again for the “Hottest Research of 2009”. The h-index is another popular citation-based metric for researchers, intended to measure productivity as well as impact. An individual’s h-index is the largest number such that many of his or her papers have been cited at least that many times.  J.-H. He claims an h-index of 39, while Hirsch estimated the median for Nobel prize winners in physics to be 35.