[ RadSafe ] Leukemia and Ionizing Radiation Revisited

[Mattias Lantz]

The journal is part of Omics, a predatory publishing house that hosts a number of less than serious journals. They also host "conferences" on different topics where the main purpose seems to be to obtain photographs of participants to use in order to trick more people to submit material to their journals.
This does not mean that all articles are not serious, or that the members of the editorial boards are not serious researchers (there may even be bona fide peer review processes occurring in some of the journals). Most researchers involved act in good faith, though one could demand that they pay better attention to whom they choose to associate themselves with.
But the overall assessment is that the publishing house is not serious and that stains the credibility of all articles coming out from their journals.

Jeffrey Beall has a number of scrutinies of Omics on his web site scholarlyoa.com

http://scholarlyoa.com/?s=omics&submit=Search

People like Chris Busby use these kind of journals to get a "peer review" label on his junk science.

Best wishes, and Happy New Year!
Mattias Lantz 


From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] on behalf of Egidi, Philip [Egidi.Philip at epa.gov]
Sent: 31 December 2015 15:17
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing     List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Leukemia and Ionizing Radiation Revisited

Radsters,
This is in the front matter of the subject article:

Received date:
December 22, 2015;
Accepted date:
December 28 2015;
Published date:
December 30, 2015

What kind of review did this get and by whom? I am not criticizing the contents of the article (yet), which I need time to digest, but rather on the speed of the review, acceptance and publication. This is not an isolated incident.

Discuss...
PVE

Philip Egidi
Environmental Scientist
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Radiation Protection Division
Washington, DC
(202) 343-9186 (work)
(970) 209-2885 (Cell)

"The health of the people is the highest law."
Cicero (106 - 43 BC)

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From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Brooks, Michael
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 4:24 AM
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Leukemia and Ionizing Radiation Revisited

Hot off the press:

http://www.esciencecentral.org/journals/leukemia-and-ionizing-radiation-revisited-2329-6917-1000202.pdf

Tweeted by Rod Adams (@Atomicrod), but looks interesting, so I am re-posting it here.

Regards and Happy New Year (shortly)

Michael

Michael Brooks, PhD
Head of Diagnostic Radiology Physics
Medical Physics Department
Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Longfleet Road
Poole
UK

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