Dear Milka Mimi Klincheva ,

The publisher behind this journal “Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine" is “Fortune journals” a publisher mentioned in the updated version of the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net/#update). This is a red flag that you are dealing with a potential predatory publisher (and consequently journal). There are more red flags:

-Contact info (https://www.fortunejournals.com/) 11355 Richmond Ave #507, Houston, TX 77082, USA is fake or at best a virtual office. The same is true for the Delaware address (frequently used by predatory publishers for misleadingly suggesting an US origin while they are not)

-Same Delaware address is used by https://inter-publishing.com/index.php/ijbde published by Academic Journal INC a predatory publisher for sure numerous so-called misleading metrics are prominently mentioned on their website (https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/)

-Looking at http://www.fortunejournals.com/cardiology-and-cardiovascular-medicine-home-ccm.php I see a prominently mentioned impact factor, which is false and misleading since this journal is not indexed in Clarivate’s SCIE (you can check here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home ) and DRJI a notorious misleading metric often used by predatory journals

-Mentioning PubMed is also misleading since ALL papers published by author’s with a NIH grant are indexed in PubMed irrespective of the journal where the paper is published in. This has nothing to do with being a PubMed indexed journal (which they are not)

-APC (https://www.fortunejournals.com/article-processing-charges.php) is ridiculously high for an essentially non-indexed journal

Overall I would say avoid this one.

Best regards.

PS. Indeed they are not indexed in Scopus (which they do not claim by the way).

There is a journal search function in Pubmed.

You could not have asked a better question. Here's my story.

As all bad-outcome stories begin "I was contacted by this woman on LinkedI, , ,". She was interested in my submitting a publication to this Canadian "journal". Her name was Nicole Strohmer, but she is Chinese, a fact that shouldn't be misinterpreted as misogynistic or racist, as there is a battalion of Asian women on LinkedIn who approach unsuspecting men using an initial approach of seeking friendship but which quickly goes south in the form of a cryptocurrency grift.

I submitted a review article on the Pathophysiology of Syncope and got a positive response within 2 days. The article was reviewed by someone (see attached review). The response speaks for itself. When I saw this, I immediately suspected a grift and wrote back telling Nicole to skip it, and, by the way, you should download Grammarly. That she felt insulted made me think, maybe this is legit. Not.

I know that Nicole is Chinese, because only yesterday she called me. I really don't know why I answered an "unknown" call, but I'm glad I did. Yes, her voice was Asian, most likely Chinese. She intended to make sure I knew there was a charge to withdraw a submission. I said "Homey don't play that game" and hung up. I have no idea how she got my number and that is the scary part.

Definitely avoid them.

I submitted a formal complaint to LinkedIn and their response was "We could find nothing that violated our guidelines".