There are many intellectuals and retired Professors who would like to contribute to knowledge through journal Publication and are being discouraged by INDEXING and PREDATORY threats. Most of them may not be going into Publication stuffs for money as proved by offer of FREE PUBLICATION CHARGES to Authors.
Could there be Academic politics under the cover of PREDATORY ALERTS and PUBLICATIONS in order to discourage new Publishers?
Please fellow a academicians and Professors, please kindly educate me and many who are in this dilemma.
Dear Obeta,
Some indexing databases are well-known and they have more acceptance (e.g. Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, Embase, DOAJ, etc.). Some others may have a regional acceptance (e.g. J-Gate, Index Copernicus, ISC, etc.). The rest are free or low-charged indexes that may only provide more visibility for a newly launched Journal and may not be acceptable by other indexing databases or academic publishers (e.g. CiteFactor, ESJI, ASI, SIS, DRJI, etc.).
For example, recently we received this email during our application in DOAJ:
"- The journal displays of non-standard indexing databases on the journal homepage, such as Eurasian Scientific Journal Index (ESJI), Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI), International Scientific Indexing (ISI), Advanced Sciences Index (ASI), SJIFactor, ICI World of Journals, CiteFactor, Scientific Indexing Services (SIS), Journal Factor, Root Indexing. These types of ads are strongly discouraged"
But none of these indexes guarantee a journal becomes or not a PREDATORY threat. There are several factors that you may consider, for instance:
1) Does the journal have a specific review system?
2) Is there a reasonable time between submissions to accept?
3) Does the journal have a plagiarism checking service?
4) Is there standard copyright and licensing terms?
5) Is there a clear statement about Author charges?
and other good publishing practices.
Dear Obeta Mark Uchejeso ,
The reason why DOAJ expressed their concern when it comes to the mentioned ‘metrics’ such as Eurasian Scientific Journal Index (ESJI), Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI), International Scientific Indexing (ISI), CiteFactor and Scientific Indexing Services (SIS) is because they are known of so-called misleading metrics: https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/ and these metrics are often used by predatory journals, in other words their message is: stay away from these type of metrics since they are not seen as trustworthy.
Best regards.
On the one hand, there is no reason to consider fresh journals as predatory since thay have not been indexed or abstracted in acceptable databases (inclusion in reputed A&I databases usually takes time). On the other hand, not all journals indexed and/or abstracted in reputed databases can be considered as genuine merely looking at their inclusion in reputed A&I databases. Occasionally there could be deceptive journals that are also indexed by reputed databases. Therefore, it is safe to consider some more factors (as suggested by Hadi) of a potential journal while keeping the factor 'indexation' as only one of them to decide the genuiness of a publication outlet. As Rob indicates, highlighting the inclusion of the journal in bogus databases cannot be expected from a genuine journal. If the potential journal is new to you, we always recommend to check and read the information given on the website carefully. This leads to understand the true nature of the journal.
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