I need to know before I send a manuscript to either of these journals. Thanks
Non of the journals you mentioned (JBES, IJB) is registered neither in SCOPUS nor in Clarivate WOS (formerly Thomson ISI). So if I were you I would look for an other journal.
Scientists from CIS countries are not taught how to recognize magazines that want to cash in on them. Unfortunately, most "article publishing" companies cooperate with" predatory " publications. Thousands of scientists every year become victims of fraud.
Science Insight takes a completely different approach: we teach how not to be fooled. After reading this article, you will be able to recognize the "predatory" magazine yourself.
What are "predatory" magazines?
Unfortunately, there is no universal classification of "predatory" magazines. According to the experience of Science Insight, scientists from CIS countries often face three main categories:
"Predatory" magazines
Since 2009, Scopus has been actively cleaning the database, excluding "predatory" logs. It is worth noting that over the past few years, the number of excluded journals has increased – from 6 (2013) to 175 (2016). Similarly, the number of publications of scientists from the CIS in "predatory" journals is growing.
The main characteristics of the "predatory" journal are the absence of peer review and the availability of a fee for publication. The article must conform to the structure of the scientific article, and its content does not interest anyone.
A typical scheme of such a journal is to get indexed in Scopus and work for a year or two in the "scientific" mode. After that, the magazine begins to EN masse articles for publication. All he is interested in is making a profit, i.e. publishing as many articles as possible before Scopus removes the magazine from the database. Therefore, the articles do not pass any review.
Examples of such journals are Asian Social Science, Mediterranean Journal of Social Science, and International Journal of Environmental And Science Education. A huge number of articles by CIS scientists were published in these journals. However, if you look at the statistics of Scopus (directly through the database), you can see a certain pattern – in 2012-2014, these magazines published 60-70 articles a year. And in 2015-2016, this figure increased to 500-600 articles a year!
Please note! These magazines are no longer in the Scopus database, but continue to publish articles! All articles that were and will be published in these journals in 2017 will NOT be indexed in Scopus.
The most popular "predatory" magazines that are no longer indexed by Scopus (full list in useful links):
— International Journal of Environmental and Science Education ISSN 1306-3065 Turkey/Netherlands
— Mathematics Education ISSN 2468-4945 Turkey/Netherlands
— International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology ISSN 0975-766X India
— Research Journal of Pharmaceutical Biological and Chemical Sciences ISSN 0975-8585 India
— Indian Journal of Science and Technology ISSN 0974-5645 India
— Social Sciences ISSN 1993-6125 Pakistan Pakistan
- Actual Problems of Economics ISSN 1993-6788 Ukraine
— Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia ISSN 0973-1245 India
— ISSN anthropologist is 0972-0073 India
— International Review of Management and Marketing ISSN 2146-4405 Turkey
— Journal of Language and Literature ISSN 2078-0303 Azerbaijan
False (fake) logs.
Such journals are not included in any of the main abstract databases, but they deliberately try to convince scientists of the opposite. To do this, they use "false metrics", such as the presence of a non-existent "impact factor", as we wrote in the article False impact factor.
A striking example of such a journal is the Nigerian Journal of Scientific Research and Development. This log is not included in either Scopus or WoS. However, this journal publishes entire issues with publications by scientists from Russia and Kazakhstan – in 2015 and 2016.
You must pay for publishing an article in this journal. Given the fact that publication in this journal does not give the scientist ANYTHING, there are two main reasons for getting articles in this journal.
The first reason is that the authors of the articles did not know that the magazine is not included in Scopus/WoS. On the main page of the magazine, you can read that it has a Science Impact Factor equal to 1.69. Be careful! If you've read our article False impact factor, you know that Science Impact Factor (SIF) is a false metric created specifically to help journals deceive scientists.
The second reason is that the authors trusted intermediaries to publish their articles "quickly and cheaply" in Scopus/WoS. Very often, intermediary organizations are complicit in deceiving the scientist. Their task is to convince the scientist that this is a "great magazine with an if=1.69", get money from him and deliberately give the article to a "false" magazine. Many CIS scientists have fallen victim to this deception-look at the number of publications in this journal only!
"Hijacked" magazines
A small but extremely dangerous category of magazines. While "false" and "predatory" journals pose little danger to experienced scientists, "stolen" journals can mislead even those who have already published their articles dozens of times.
A "stolen" journal is an exact copy of an existing journal or its hacked website, which is used to deceive scientists. All relevant information of the journal is published on the journal's website: the journal's if, ISSN, and members of the editorial Board. However, this is not a real magazine. It's fake.
Example:
The Portuguese journal Ciência e Técnica Vitivinícola-Journal of Viticulture and Enology is included in Scopus (Q3, SJR-0.25) and Web of Science (SCIE, IF-0.44). This is a great magazine and a good place to publish an article.
Only, this is a real website of the magazine http://www.ctv-jve-journal.org/, and this is a fake to deceive scientists http://ciencia-e-tecnica.org/. when searching in Google, it is the fake site that first appears. Can you distinguish a fake? No! And you know why?
Because it's not just a fake. This is a past version of the site that was hacked and is now being used to get money ($454 per article). And there are many such magazines. Russian magazines were also not ignored: in 2015, a false version of the "Therapeutic archive" was in effect.
What is the danger of "predatory" magazines?
As for the" false "and" stolen " journals, everything is clear: they are deliberately trying to deceive scientists and get money from them. If you publish in such a magazine, you will lose your money, but not only!
Surprisingly, many scientists deliberately go for publication in "predatory" journals. We often receive requests "Can you publish my article in 1-2 months?". Most often, for such a period, only "predators" publish. As a result, excellent research is published in similar journals.
All publications in such journals are called "garbage publications". Note that this "label" does not depend on the quality of the study, but on the quality of the journal. Most scientists will not consciously refer to "junk publications". The review process is a certain guarantee of the quality of the article and the reliability of the results. Therefore, the results OF any article published in the "predatory" journal will not be considered reliable.
In addition, the publication of an article even in such a journal is still considered a publication. Therefore, if You want to submit the same article, but in a different magazine, it will already be considered plagiarism.
Sometimes we are approached by scientists who mistakenly published an article in a "predatory" magazine, although the quality of the article is very good. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to correct this situation.
When you publish in "predatory" magazines, you lose not only money! You lose the opportunity to share the results of your research! You are irretrievably losing time spent on research and writing an article!
It is impossible to write an article about "predatory" magazines and not write about the American librarian Jeffrey bill. It was he who defined the criteria for selecting "predatory" magazines and in 2010 compiled a list of" predatory " publishers and magazines. At the end of 2016, bill's list had 1,155 publishers and 1,294 individual magazines. In addition, bill compiled separate lists of" stolen "logs and" false " metrics.
In 2013, the correspondent of the journal Science wrote an article "Who is afraid of peer-review?"(Who is afraid of independent review?) about the results of sending a pseudoscientific article to the journal editor from bill's list. The article contained unscientific and completely fictitious information about cancer inhibitors that are produced by lichens. At the same time, the names of substances, lichens and cancer cells were randomly substituted by the computer program. Despite these factors, the article was accepted for publication in 60% of magazines!
Because of its activities, the bill often received threats and has been subject to criticism. His list was often called too subjective and offensive. However, it was the best defense against "predatory" magazines.
Unfortunately, in January 2017, Jeffrey bill deleted his list! The scientist confirmed that it was his own decision. What exactly caused it is unknown. However, bill's friends say this is " politics and threats."
The list was last updated on January 9, 2017. The list was restored to its final form, but is no longer updated. Meanwhile, in 2017, new "predatory magazines" appeared and they will not be included in this list. Therefore, scientists need to be able to distinguish between high-quality magazines and predator magazines.ас все еще одолевают сомнения, напишите в поддержку Scopus/WoS. Ну или нам, в Science Insight.
Non of the journals you mentioned (JBES, IJB) is registered neither in SCOPUS nor in Clarivate WOS (formerly Thomson ISI). So if I were you I would look for an other journal.
These scientific journals are not included in Scopus or web of science. You may need to carefully search from the list.
Indeed, you can use official journals lists of Scopus and Web of Science:
– Scopus:
https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri
– Web of Science:
https://mjl.clarivate.com/home
Both sources are with no fee.
It's preferred to reveal journal by theirs ISSNs (print and on-line) not by theirs names.
Please notice that Web of Science is now under Clarivate Analitycs trademark not under Thomson Reuters one.
Dear Irene Tan ,
Both journals are published by International Network for Natural Sciences (INNSPUB):
https://innspub.net/
which is mentioned in Beall’s list of potential predatory publishers.
Both “Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences” and “International Journal of Biosciences” have indeed a Web of Science coverage in one of their indexes named Zoological record.
However this has nothing to do with the serious ESCI or even better the SCIE index of Clarivate. In other words their mentioning to be indexed by Thomson Reuters (the former owner before Clarivate...) seems to suggest more than it really is. The claimed index of International Journal of Biosciences in DOAJ seems false. Same with CrossRef claim.
On their behalf both journals are relatively young so possible indexing in Scopus and (real) indexing in ESCI of Clarivate might take a while.
So in conclusion: no these journal are not indexed in Scopus and Clarivate (at least not the one you refer to).
Best regards.
The Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and International Journal of Biosciences are both indexed in Clarivate analytics (Thomson Reuters) under zoological record (Additional Web of Science Indexes). Zoological Record (produced by the Web Of Science group) is the world’s oldest continuing database of animal biology. It is considered the world’s leading taxonomic reference, and with coverage back to 1864, has long acted as the world’s unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.
The journals can be easily find on the web of science group master journal list https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
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