The link http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_info.php?id=40 (response of @Papa Djibril Faye to my question) corresponds to ''Environment and Ecology Research''. Are we talking about ''Environment and Ecology Journal'' (main question of the thread) or ''Environment and Ecology Research''?

Is there an internet site for this Journal?

Regards

yes,

http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_info.php?id=40

@ Papa Djibril Faye

Yes, it is included in the list of predatory publishers. Please see the link below.

http://openscience.ens.fr/ABOUT_OPEN_ACCESS/BLOGS/2017_01_23_Jeffrey_Beall_last_list_of_predatory_journals.pdf

Thanks!

At this point, Environment and Ecology Journal has so few metrics published that one cannot appreciate its value. I would wait a few years before submitting a manuscript.

The link http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_info.php?id=40 (response of @Papa Djibril Faye to my question) corresponds to ''Environment and Ecology Research''. Are we talking about ''Environment and Ecology Journal'' (main question of the thread) or ''Environment and Ecology Research''?

Environment and Ecology Research !

This journal is not exist in list of clarvate and scopus journals. Do you mean Applied Ecology and Environmental Research.

Arvind Singh , il n'est pas sur la liste partagée !

Majid Abdulhameed Ibrahim non "Environment and Ecology Research", en tout cas leur site internet a l'air d'être fiable !

@ Papa Djibril Faye

Please reply in English. The Horizon Research Publishing is a predatory publisher. Please see the following link.

https://clinicallibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers/

Thanks!

I allow myself to translate the answer Papa Djibril Faye

  Arvind Singh, he is not on the shared list!

Majid Abdulhameed Ibrahim no "Environment and Ecology Research", in any case their website seems to be reliable!

There is Horizon Research Publishing and

Horizon Research Publishing Corporation

The websites are different

@ Papa Djibril Faye

Please take a look at this useful link.

http://www.jenniephillips.com/the-risks-to-early-academics-in-the-world-of-publishing/

@ Papa Djibril Faye

Please also see the below given link.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED564071.pdf

thank you !

My advice is: stick to well known, quality journals that are indexed in international databases having well developed metrics (e.g. SCOPUS, ISI).

Yes, the ideal situation is to ''stick to well known, quality journals that are indexed in international databases having well developed metrics (e.g. SCOPUS, ISI)''. However, sometimes, the implementation of planning for publication in such journals may be a problem, especially, in cases in which time matters. An example may be a promotion issue. Nevertheless, there are always decent solutions.

We agree with Aristidis Matsoukis: the ideal situation is to publish in quality journals and build a scientific reputation on a long term basis. However, there are some situations where short term considerations are at play. In the latter case, publishing in well known journals with lower impact factor may be a solution. After all, the rejection rate of manuscripts submitted to high quality journals is often > 50%.

Charles Vincent thank you for your precious advices. It's important for young scientist like me to know that !

The link http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_info.php?id=40 (response of @Papa Djibril Faye to my question) corresponds to ''Environment and Ecology Research''. Are we talking about ''Environment and Ecology Journal''

No, we talk "Environment and Ecology Research"!

The link http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_info.php?id=40 (response of @Papa Djibril Faye to my question) corresponds to ''Environment and Ecology Research''. Are we talking about ''Environment and Ecology Journal''

@M. A. A. Al- Fatlawi,

Your response above is a copy/paste response from a very big part of my second response to the discussion thread without referring to source. It is not the first time you use this tactic regarding me and other colleagues. It is a matter of ethics.

Please go for renowned, established journal of your field. It may be with moderate IF or high IF, whatever it is the main concern is the quality. Sometimes you may go for good journal with low to moderate IF and sometimes you should go for journal with high IF. And always think about if they are indexed in renowned database (scopus, ISI, etc.). You may check list of Clarivate Analytics, also to know actual IF of that journal.

The publisher may be valid, but it is certainly not one with journals that will get your research noticed. Horizon Research Publishing is listed as a Predatory Publisher and if you look at their website it has problems and concerns. It says it is going to list Publication Discounts but apparently lists the APC's, but might they charge you more if you did not catch this mistake?

Lastly, there are many good journals in Entomology, some without a publishing charge and so please look these up and your article will be read by more scientists.

Robert John Wolff can you recommanded me some of their Entomology journals ?

Dear Papa Djibril Faye ,

The journal you mentioned “Environment and Ecology Research” (ISSN: 2331-625X (Print), ISSN: 2331-6268 (Online)) is published by the publisher “Horizon Research Publishing corporation”:

http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_index.php?id=40

This publisher is included in Beall’s List under the name Horizon Research Publishing. This means that the publisher behind the journal is possibly predatory. See for an nuanced view on how to use Beall’s list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beall%27s_List

In this particular case I feel it is borderline. A number of things contradict the ‘verdict’ of predatory:

1. All papers have assigned DOI numbers.

2. I can find a lot of the papers back in Google Scholar (and a number have significant number of citations).

3. They seem to be open about the article processing charges.

It could be that this publisher is struggling to become a full-grown publisher and simply has not received enough reputation. However they were named in a recent Taiwan University investigation among notorious predatory publishers like Scientific Research (SCIRP), OMICS International and World Academy of Science, Engineer and Technology (WASET):

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3670777

So publishing in this journal (part of this publisher) is up to the individual decision of a researcher or research group but seems to me potentially risky.

Best regards.

PS. For those interested I made a little study about this topic:

Method Predatory journals and publishers: a menace to science and s...

Dear Rob Keller ,

If you read my earlier reply you will see that Horizon is not as clear on their APC's. Also, since anyone can get DOI numbers this has nothing to do with being predatory or non-predatory. Google Scholar is also not set up to distinguish quality publishers from those lacking quality, as say PubMed is. I recommend looking at the many sites now giving info on predatory publishing, and predatoryjournals.com does provide some info and updated lists based on Beall.

Papa Djibril Faye -- Two of the sources I look at when thinking about a journal to publish in for entomological topics are

https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1109

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entomology_journals

While the scimago is based on a ranking system and wikipedia is just a list, it is most important to consider who you want to see your article. If it is a general article, then higher ranking journal article is likely to be seen by a broader audience. If you want to publish on a particular group or fauna of a geographical region then an appropriate journal might be one on a taxon (ie. Coleopterists Bulletin) or that covers a region (ie. Great Lakes Entomologist). These are more likely to be seen and cited by researchers working on that taxon or region. Two other notes: With the ease of search engines most relevant papers can be found without too much effort; Also many of these journals are either low cost or free for publishing (or just a small membership fee, and the members are good sources of help and getting the paper noticed).

Dear Robert John Wolff ,

I have to disagree with you about the APC issue, I think a journal like the journal we were talking about “Environment and Ecology Research” cannot be more clear about the costs (and the information about it):

http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_charge.php?id=40

Furthermore let me be absolutely clear I didn’t and do not want to try to advocate this particular publisher. My remarks about Google Scholar and so on where meant to say that I’ve seen worse. I meant to say that at least the papers published by this particular journal and publisher can be found in Google Scholar (which is as we all know one of the most if not THE most used search engine by scientists).

Nevertheless I maintain my estimation that this publisher might be borderline since I now noticed that they seem to have managed to get three of their journals indexed by Scopus (See also the attached file with the most recent list of indexed journals.): "Universal Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering", "Universal Journal of Mechanical Engineering", "Universal Journal of Educational Research". Talking about more serious indexing…

Back on topic: I do agree with your suggestions for better journals in the field of entomology.

Best regards.

Rob Keller -- I have rechecked the website and they have cleaned it up some since I noted the confusion in March. They still list on one page the availability of "several discounts" and yet on the APC page only list a two tier system. While they may still be borderline, they still lean towards predatory. For example they use the "Copernicus Index" which is used ONLY by the predatory publishers and was created by the predatory publishers.

I did also check other details of the journal website and I am concerned about their suggestion that in their Call for Papers they say an advantage of publishing with them is " Indexed in bibliographic databases (e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed etc.) in the future" which is a statement of hope and not of reality or something that will occur. If my career advancement or grant opportunity depended on what might happen in the future for the journal it would cause me to reject submitting to this journal.

I did look at some of their articles and found many had titles that did not make sense in english, improper use of proper scientific names (italics needed), and abstracts that were inaccurate. This is not a journal that has proper editorial quality and is thus not a quality journal even if it was not charging an APC.

Indexing and the publisher should be checked!

I agree with Rob Keller reply.