In the public higher education institutions (PHEIs), our speedy and maximum promotion largely depends on research undertakings usually in publication. As part of the guidelines, one cannot proceed with the accreditation process for full-professorship unless he has published a paper in a locally-accredited, or Scopus/ISI-indexed journals. Given the rule, it essentially discriminates all other journals not indexed in the prescribed system. It appears that other research journals, regardless of their stringent mechanisms from submission, acceptance to publication notwithstanding their competent reviewers and editors, are implicitly not credible or dependable, and therefore useless. Despite their own indexing systems that are obviously many, these "non-Scopus or ISI" journals and publications are considered to be unscrupulous and good-for-nothing. However, I am quite surprised nowadays to see over social media of many information, posts and advertisements recruiting, inviting and motivating authors to submit papers for sure or quick publication in Scopus Indexed Journals , WoS, etc. As submission fees are clearly evident, it seems that the modus is just the same as of the other journals. I am just stating these facts to create reactions and discussions on the matter which to me is not fair with other reputable journals, despite their non-inclusion in the Scopus/WoS list.
Dear Ernie Celino Cerado ,
Before starting a discussion about the credibility of Scopus, SCIE indexed journals (and the Beall’s list?) it might be interesting to see whether you can come up with a couple of examples of “other research journals, regardless … Despite their own indexing systems that are obviously many, these "non-Scopus or ISI" journals and publications are considered to be unscrupulous and good-for-nothing”
and examples of “….to submit papers for sure or quick publication in Scopus Indexed Journals , WoS, etc.”
Best regards
PS. See also examples of related discussions:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/List_of_Predatory_Journals_and_Publishers_2020
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-is-Bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-and-journals-treated-in-your-country
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_accuracy_level_of_Bealls_efforts_https_beallslistnet_in_tracking_predatory_journals_across_the_world
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_i_know_about_fake_and_authentic_of_journal
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Scopus_doing_a_good_job_in_identifying_and_dealing_with_predatory_journals
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is-there-any-relationship-between-Scopus-List-and-Bealls-List-of-predatory-Journals
Dear Ernie Celino Cerado
In most of the academic institutes, the journal should be indexed in Scopus or WOS in order to be accredited. In case you want to submit your article to an open access Scopus indexed journal, you have to make sure that the journal is not listed as a predatory journal. Therefore, WOS is more trustable than Scopus since WOS does not allow predatory journals.
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