"Fake “Institute” Has Fooled Many — Even Harvard

Fake “Institute” Has Fooled Many — Even Harvard

Scholarly Open Access by Jeffrey Beall 

One of their four broad-scoped journals, each with a fake impact factor.

The Institute of Research Advances is a backward open-access publisher based in Chandigarh, India. Like the Clute “Institute,” It’s not really an institute in any honest sense of the term. Instead, it’s a sole proprietorship aimed at separating researchers from their money.