Anyone who are expert with knowledge about scientific journals are being kindly requested to help me providing the real information.
No personal knowledge, but this site lists a few reasons to consider them 'predatory,' or at the very least not well-respected:
https://blog.cabells.com/category/predatory-publishing/
Reasons include
- Emails from journals received by researchers who are clearly not in the field(s) the journal covers
- Scholars included on the editorial board without their knowledge or permission (not Yosemite Sam, though this would apply to him too)
- Promise of rapid publication and/or unusually quick peer review (less than four weeks)
- No policies for digital preservation
- The same article appears in more than one journal
Are you asking because you received one of their emails? I highly suggest ignoring them and publishing in a more mainstream journal. To an extent, the quality of the journal you publish can determine how others view your work, as it implies a certain level of professional vetting and approval.
Kathleen Connolly Thanks a lot for helping me. They sent a request to be in their editorial panel although I had no connection with them.
I am not in total agreement with Kathleen Connolly criteria for identifying predatory journals. For instance, that a particular journal reviewed and publish a paper within or less than 4 weeks does not make it a predatory journal (PJ).
It is time, the so called quality journals speed up the timing of their review and publication processes of their journals.
Sometimes they unnecessarily waste time without any just course.
Concerning AJBSR i check the web page and noticed that it is relatively new still in volume 1. This may not make it a predatory Journal. I suggest you make proper finding.
The only surprising thing therein is that the Journal already had over 50 reviewers.
Thank you so much for nice suggestion Chibuisi. Gideon. Alimba
Dear Sir, Derek Pyne
, I have checked several predatory journal list but didn't found it. May be I missed the Cabell's blacklist, thank you for the information.
It is good to know from Derek Pyne that it is already a blacklisted journal on Cabell's list. However, it is important to also inform that there are high quality and impact factor journals with RESEARCH as part of their names and that does not make them predatroy. For instance, Account of Chemical Research, Circulatory Research, Nucleic Acid Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Educational Research just to mention a few.
Dear Shoaibe Hossain Talukder Shefat ,
The journal “American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research” is published by BiomedGrid LLC and is mentioned in the update of Beall’s list:
https://beallslist.weebly.com/#update
The publication charge for research paper is USD 1179,- which is way too high for a journal with zero serious indexing service (Crossref is fake!).
So I would say a journal (and publisher) to keep away from.
Best regards.
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