Recently, I have received a paper submission invitation email from a fake journal. They seems to be very cunning where the subject of the email was “Call for Paper: Journal of Multi.... Scopus Q3”..
When Im visited their webpage, they mentioned that their journal is indexed by scopus (Q3) and they displays the scopus widget in their website. You know what.. it is look damn real!
But I was bit suspicious actually so i got their ISSN and checked in Scopus database and its exist! Yes it existed, so when i click the homepage shows in scopus website it has led me different website which is look like a real scopus publishing website.
After that i check again the journal ISSN in the ISSN portal, yes it has led me to that real scopus publishing website and not that predatory journal webpage..
Beware researcher, nowadays it becomes very difficult to identify which one is real and which one is predatory!
Explore first before make submission!
Hopefully this message helpful for everyone! Thank you.
A tip is to never respond or click on email invitations to submit papers owing to your discourse above, but always go to the publisher's website directly.
good suggestion Charles. There are several predatory journals with authentic-looking websites. It is always a good practice to cross-check them in the indexing databases (SCOPUS/SCI, etc.) and then to cross-check the number of papers mentioned on SCOPUS website against those listed on predatory journal website (you can just check the papers published in a single issue).
It is a very common practice by fake or predatory journals to send emails asking for paper submission. As far as I know, I never experienced any reputed journal sending emails for paper submission unless one has emailed them earlier.
@Charles @Gaurav @ @Azhar Best practice to find out whether a journal is/was indexed in Scopus and not excluded from their source list. One can refer to the list 'Discontinued Sources from Scopus' issued every month by Scopus.
A well-reputed journal won't ever send you any invitation to submit a paper. Exception can be with a special issue. Then you can get a letter from the editors if they are from your network. Otherwise it is mostly predators sending out lots of spam.
You may be getting Fake Email from Fake Journals, then you have to ignore them.
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