Dear Sheikh Sunzid Ahmed ,

The publisher “Universe Publishing Group (UniversePG)” is indeed not mentioned in the Beall’s list. Most likely because they are too new (and not that extremely active). There are other red flags though:

-Contact info 135 S Vermont Avenue, 3rd floor, Los Angeles, California, USA renders not the best neighbourhood of LA…

-Calling yourself American https://universepg.com/journal/ajpab with not a single member of the editorial board being American https://universepg.com/editors/ajpab? That is, well…

-Same is true for European …. And British …

-Prominently mentioned impact factor is fake (it is International Scientific Indexing (ISI) a sad example of a so-called misleading metric https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/ )

-According to https://universepg.com/page/abstracting-and-indexing they are proud of indexing fakes like CiteFactor and DRJI (both notorious examples of misleading metrics)

Besides the DOI’s assigned to the papers I see no real good signs, better avoid.

Best regards.

Thank you Very much Mr. Keller

Dear Sheikh Sunzid Ahmed,

The Universe PG is not a predatory publishing group; newly growing publisher (started in 2019). It has a real ISSN, Doi number, and also has few-organization district indexing informations !

The Universe PG has a blind peer review, bimonthly journals, it has an editorial board for all journals with global reputed academicians and scientists.

I reviewed the journal's website and found it publishes good quality articles as per international standards and policies.

Regards

Ropak Chandra Roy

Dear Sheikh Sunzid Ahmed,

I have reviewed the journal's website and found that their publication quality is standard. They have some qualityful articles with a good number of citations. It is not a predatory publishing group.

The Universe PG has a blind peer review, bimonthly journals, and an editorial board for all journals with global reputed academicians and scientists. It has a real ISSN, Doi number, and also has few-organization district indexing information.

Dear Rob Keller: Thanks for the information you provided. Recently, these Singapore-based publishers/journals have been inviting people to join their editorial boards like crazy... But as you mentioned, they are very new, so perhaps some hidden problems have yet to be revealed... better keep an eye on their progress.

Sheikh Sunzid Ahmed, when I looked at their address in the Google map street view.... it was not convincing.

Can be a red flagged due to indexing in red flagged indexing site

Dear Sheikh Sunzid Ahmed

I have reviewed the UniversePG website and found that their publication quality is standard. They have some quality articles with a good number of citations. Now available published content on the ISI, Google Scholar, SCIlit, Schematic Scholar, etc.

The Universe PG has a blind peer review, bimonthly journals, and an editorial board for all journals with globally reputed academicians and scientists. Very soon UniversePG journals will include under the WOS, SCOPUS, etc. Thank you for your good questions.

Regards

Md Ekhlas Uddin