The publisher does appear in the list

https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/

Unfortunately, the original list of predatory journals by Jeffrey Beall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Beall) was taken down some time ago due to legal threats by some of the publishers listed there.

I checked some of the IOSR journals and articles and think that you should be careful. Many articles that I checked had only ~14 days between submission and publication. At the same time, IOSR claims to have ~3 reviews per article with a rejection rate of 85-90%. I have been an editor for Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, one of the pioneer open access journals run by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), for years. From my experience, I have no idea how IOSR would be able to accomplish all these claims at the same time: (extremely) short turnaround time, large number of reviewers per article, high rejection rate. Our typical review process takes 2-3 months because the experts in the field are not available at short notice and need time to provide a thorough review. And we only manage to get ~2 reviewers per article with a much lower rejection rate. BTW: it is not our goal to have a high rejection rate, we want to publish high-quality papers. The other thing I noticed was that many people on the editorial boards have only a handful of publications. Also, many of the DOIs from IOSR articles that I checked did not resolve at crossref.org.

So, I would have serious doubts about the quality of the peer review process in IOSR journals compared to what we do at EGU. BTW: the review process for all our EGU journals is open, so anyone can check the quality of the submitted articles as well as the review reports from first submission to final publication (or rejection).

Please have a look at the list here: https://scholarlyoa.com/

We call it  "Beall's List of Predatory Journals"

Dear ashock..

I found this website is very useful for all researchers who want to check the reliability and indexing of any journal with one sample search.. it checking the journal in 3 well-known databases ( PubMed-Scopus- Thomson Reuters master list) in addition to that it has a blacklist journals and publishers.

The address of website is : journalindex.org 

I hope this help you in check any journal before you submit your paper for publishing. 

Regards 

This publisher (IOSR) is in the list of "Beall's Predatory Journal". This indicates that this publisher is either fake or not peer blind reviewed. Authors are discouraged to submit their manuscripts.

If it is a fake journal how come UGC approval was obtained?

The publisher does appear in the list

https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/

Unfortunately, the original list of predatory journals by Jeffrey Beall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Beall) was taken down some time ago due to legal threats by some of the publishers listed there.

I checked some of the IOSR journals and articles and think that you should be careful. Many articles that I checked had only ~14 days between submission and publication. At the same time, IOSR claims to have ~3 reviews per article with a rejection rate of 85-90%. I have been an editor for Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, one of the pioneer open access journals run by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), for years. From my experience, I have no idea how IOSR would be able to accomplish all these claims at the same time: (extremely) short turnaround time, large number of reviewers per article, high rejection rate. Our typical review process takes 2-3 months because the experts in the field are not available at short notice and need time to provide a thorough review. And we only manage to get ~2 reviewers per article with a much lower rejection rate. BTW: it is not our goal to have a high rejection rate, we want to publish high-quality papers. The other thing I noticed was that many people on the editorial boards have only a handful of publications. Also, many of the DOIs from IOSR articles that I checked did not resolve at crossref.org.

So, I would have serious doubts about the quality of the peer review process in IOSR journals compared to what we do at EGU. BTW: the review process for all our EGU journals is open, so anyone can check the quality of the submitted articles as well as the review reports from first submission to final publication (or rejection).

I am surprised. It is actually fake. It appeared very genuine to me until I paid 75 US and never got any communication from them though I got the below communication (copied and pasted as received)

IOSR

PayPal Checkout

You created a PayPal account and paid $75.00 USD

to IOSR

Details

1 x IOSR Journals $75.00 USD

Manuscript Handling Fees: Only online publication

Subtotal $75.00 USD

Total $75.00 USD

Paid with

Visa x-5458 $75.00 USD

This transaction will appear on your statement as PAYPAL *IOSR

Purchase details

Receipt number: 71686552VG981910Y

We'll send confirmation to:

[email protected]

Merchant details

IOSR

Today I have decided to thoroughly check about it only to find it in the list of the predatory journals. My colleague researchers, lets keep off this journal.

I found it it in the list of Beall's Predetory Journals.

This link is helpful.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323465557_Predator-in-Chief_Wolves_in_Editors%27_Clothing

It is unfortunate that there are many people who have published with this fake journey. I think it is really difficult to tell some of these predatory journals.

Someone tell me if "International Journal of Innovative Studies in Sociology and Humanities (IJISSH whose ID: is IJISSH-020708. is predatory or genuine please. I am not ready to lose more money like I have already with IOSR.

I HAVE GOT ACCEPTANCE AND THEY ARE ASKING FOR PAYMENT. I AM IN DOUBT ,SHOULD I GO FORWARD?

Thank you everyone for such explanatory inputs. I have just recieved an email from a personal GMAIL account who claims to be THE EDITOR of this journal. He is requesting me to put my question down because it is creating a lot of confusion at ther end. I would appreciate if the journal itself comes in and proves itself. I am still not convinced how a person can simply email me to my personal email address while representing a whole claimed to be an authentic journal?

@Ashok. You are quite right. Thanks for posting this follow-up. The editor is not helping the journal's case by trying to close down the discussion in this way. I'm recommending your answer.

@Alan Parker, thanks a lot for being kind and supoortive. Appreciated 😊

I think whether research findings are genuine or not does not depend on the type of publisher, but the researcher's own desire to uphold integrity and academic ethics. Open access journals have been useful at enabling researchers in the developing world access new knowledge. And by the way the so-called beall's list no longer holds the validity it first claimed. If anything, Beall himself in his report estimated that only 5-10% of actual publications could be faulty. This percentage was later on revised downward to only 1% by the managing director of DOAJ, Lars Bjørnshauge.

In other words, being predatory as a journal does not mean that the research paper is necessary of low quality. Otherwise making such a generalisation would be derogatory to millions of genuine scholars who innocently publish their work in different journals.

In January 2017, Beall shut down his blog and removed all its content, citing pressure from his employer. This was after he was threatened by law suits by a number of publishers he had arbitrarily blacklisted only to be found not be unethical at all, which forced him to revise his list.

What I am saying is that like all research findings, Bealls list has margins of error. Secondly, there is a chance for journals that started off badly to improve into better publishers. It is like the history of automobile manufacturing. Previously the world had great faith in Western engineering to the extent that no one wanted to touch Asian manufactured cars at all. Governments and companies only procured European brands. But today the leading automobile manufacturers are Asians. Toyota, Isuzu, Nissan, Subaru, Mahindra and Tata have become the mainstay of transport industry in the world.

In conclusion, I recommend that researchers should uphold high ethical standards when conducting and reporting their research so that no matter where it is published, it served the right goal of advancing knowledge. Otherwise the idea of chasing after journals of certain class will only reverse the gains made in access and dissemination of knowledge in the developing world.

Thank you very much.

There is no doubt about it. IOSR journals are fake predatory journals.

I recommend that researchers should preoccupy themselves with generating high quality original research articles to be published anywhere instead of worrying about who publishes them. So far, there is no objective criteria for categorizing predatory journals.

Luke, remember what a journal really is. You are writing a letter to your colleagues about what you discovered. They will want to review your work to see what is new that applies to their work. You might ask: Is anyone involved with your suspect predatory journal someone interested in what you have to say? That is appropriate even if the journal is legitimate. Will anyone ever find your publication and read it? I suggest you prepare a ranked list of journals in your field that might guide you toward a conversation involving your work. Impact factors sometimes help, but predatory journals are only interested in money--I suspect the impact factors mentioned for those journals are themselves not of the highest quality. I personally have never heard of IOSR journals.

I totally agree with Glenn on this matter. Once you have done research and you discover interesting findings, you really want to get this information out there soonest. The problem is that by end of the writing process of two or three well researched papers, the author is usually mentally exhausted. Then the search for the journal to publish begins.

In my experience, most of the journals I search demand a publication fee. I therefore, look for relevant journals, I search through the editorial boards. I selected a few names on the editorial board to see if they have a publication record. Sometimes I also look at the names of some of the people publishing in a given journal and also counter-check their authenticity by searching for their career and publication history. I sometimes consult my colleagues about the journal. I further search in data bases to see whether a given journal is registered worldwide. For Indian based journals, I search on UGC directory mainly. But I also search on DOAJ, SCOPUS, WOS etc. Once I am convinced that a journal is attracting other scholars and its editorial board is credible, I send them my manuscript. What I am saying is that, being in the developing world, identifying a good journal to publish your work in is becoming a very difficult and tedious, it is actually exhausting because most journals nowadays charge a publication fees.

As for IOSR journals: IOSR is consortium of academic publishers. Their journals are listed on UGC data base. They provide DOI numbers for their publications. I was searching through the editorial board of one of their journals, Journal of Research in Education Methods, and the editorial board is international and presentable clearly displayed with the pictures of editors. Their profiles are accessible and I thought it is an authentic journal unless a group of con artists is stealing people's identities to display as editorial boards.

I don’t believe serious researchers get mentally exhausted after writing a paper. I believe the contrary is the rule. In addition, having in mind a target (serious) journal –in other words, a target audience- is part of one’s job while writing a paper. It’s nearly impossible mission to me writing a paper without a target journal (audience) in mind, and I believe it is the same for most colleagues: an honest self-evaluation of one’s own research should lead to a choice range among the most correctly ranked journals for one’s field or target audience. Only after completing this exercise, you must begin to write the corresponding paper(s).

In my personal experience (which I am sure is strongly dependent on the research field) the most serious journals and magazines do not charge for publication. Nowadays, most of them provide an option for charging and having the paper published with relaxed copyright rules.

I think Alfonso, above, is trying to trivialize my genuine concern. Exhaustion is a normal human condition which is partly why everyone takes a break at the end of the day to rest at home or end of the year to take a holiday. It is also partly why sleep is recommended as a form of mental recovery at the end of an exhausting day to recover for the next day. I therefore disagree with such a condescending attitude in such a discussion. Mental exhaustion is a human condition and I would not like to argue as to whether it exists or not, neither would like to trivialize the quality of Alfonso's work for being less demanding mentally. Whether one will feel exhausted at the end of a grueling research process or not is a matter of individual ability and therefore tolerance is called for.

Secondly, I highly doubt that all researchers begin their research with a journal to publish it in mind. I think some people start research with an intention to develop an idea in a field of study. Only when the idea has taken shape does one start thinking of where to publish. But I still urge Alfonso to be tolerant to individual differences with regard to how individuals approach their research processes.

As for Francesco Porti above, I can see a clear contradiction. That good journals give an option for charging or not. This is where the problem largely falls. Some of the best journals I have searched online have asked as much as $1000 dollars per article. One time my good PhD student had just completed a well executed study which I felt it deserved international recognition. We were taken aback by how much money we were supposed to pay for publication when we tried to access some of the reputable journals in educational psychology.

I do not doubt that there are reputable journals. I am however insisting that as researchers, we should insist on high ethical standards and we should uphold academic honesty a virtue

In general, I tend to agree with the extended explanations of Luke. Unfortunately, competition is nowadays fierce in science and in the publication of scientific results. The impact of these results is poorly correlated with issues of condescension, personal respect or sympathy. This is why my advice to my PhD students is that once the results are obtained and their publication is considered, the exercise of writing an article should be determined by the audience to which those results are directed and their expected level of impact. In addition, one is normally enriched in mind (sometimes excited) after writting a paper, this is why I introduced my answer that way -I apologize for any alternative offending understanding.

while i enjoyed this discourse, I can only say that it is critical to identify predatory journals and run away from them. I think Glenn is correct when he said "I checked some of the IOSR journals and articles and think that you should be careful. Many articles that I checked had only ~14 days between submission and publication. At the same time, IOSR claims to have ~3 reviews per article with a rejection rate of 85-90%... From my experience, I have no idea how IOSR would be able to accomplish all these claims at the same time: (extremely) short turnaround time, large number of reviewers per article, high rejection rate". But Luke's main concern is the trashing of research efforts published in some of the journals that are termed predatory, knowing the authors were not aware of the predatory status of these journals ab-initio. Kudus to Alfonso for this "I apologize for any alternative offending understanding".

Now, Glenn, Alfonso and Luke, how do we help the innocent researchers who do not know the predatory status of most of the online journals that charge Article Process Charges/Fee and publish their work within a month?

In Africa, many are the afflicted of both predatory and hijacked journals without knowing, even as we discuss.

Dear Colleagues, Alfonso and Emeh. One thing I totally agree with you is that it is immoral for a publisher to earn money through false pretense. In most countries, this amounts to a serious crime. In this regard, the phenomenon of predatory journals should be controlled. I have urged stakeholders in the knowledge industry in Kenya to call on the services of security agents if possible to help arrest predatory journal publishers. I believe that it is immoral for a "researcher" to deliberately publish in predatory journals. But I am also urging my colleagues in the academic world not to demonise researchers who innocently publish in such outlets. As I have maintained, there is no foolproof method for identifying predatory journals. The issue of paying for publication is now becoming universal with only a few exceptions. For a researcher who is well versed in research methods and well grounded in his field, It should not be a problem to identify fake or faulty research findings or arguments is poorly reviewed papers.

Two edges of a peculiar sword: (i) " Paywall: The Business of Scholarship Director: Jason Schmitt Open Society Foundations (2018) -a recommended view-, and (ii) predatory journals. Most journals listed in the Journal citation Reports (JCR) from Q1 to Q4 should shape an ample domain for anyone to choose and to avoid those two edges mentioned, depending on sensitivities and own's field. In addition, new journals with papers by reputable authors (check WoS, Scopus or ResearchGate) offer another guarantee. These may be too obvious advises for some, but young researchers acknowledge that guidance.

Apropos: Fake Journals? IOSR

(in part also an answer to @Emeh Ikechukwu above, regarding: " ..... how do we help the innocent researchers ...... " )

Search >FAKE, Predatory, Flaky journals < via GOOGLE or even within the ResearchGate Archives (i.e.: ==> See this/your particular page, find the Rectangle "Search" in the middle of the upper menue line, insert keywords or combinations of those:

| fake predatory journal conference | and eventually also IOSR |

Click the loupe-icon, wait a second or two and choose then from "Authors", "Publications" or "Questions" and you will find numerous information on the matter.

BTW: Actually they (see below) have collected e-mail-addresses from several sources ( = platforms like ResearchGate) normally NOT available in batch, send unsolicited spamming e-mails (with OPEN, i.e. VISIBLE receiver-names!), behave like as being your friend(s) and trying to convince receivers to visit their website / their journals' webpages) to see their expected or even self-applied NEW 2018 Impact Factor and to publish with them...

==========================================================

Unsolicited E-Mail: sent /received Sa 29.12.2018 12:11 to 25 visible adressees (i. e. not in bcc mode), which constitutes perhaps infringement of Data Privacy Act:

- literal QUOTE-

FROM: jnhs

Concern: Publish where it Mattes (sic!)

Please go through IOSR Journals Impact Factor 2018 announcements:

(Listed among top 20 world Journal list)

S.No. Journal Name Impact Factor

(IOSR-JRME) 3.23

(IOSR-JAP) 3.15

(IOSR-JAC) 3.149

(IOSR-JESTFT) 3.462

(IOSR-JHSS) 4.621

(IOSR-JCE) 3.712

(IOSR-JPBS) 3.83

(IOSR-JEEE) 3.26

(IOSR-JNHS) 4.59

(IOSR-JMCE) 3.781

(IOSR-JECE) 3.12

(IOSR-JAGG) 2.97

(IOSR-JBM) 3.52

(IOSR-JSPE) 2.97

(IOSR-JMCA) 3.17

(IOSR-JAVS) 3.26

(IOSR-JM) 3.97

(IOSR-JEF) 3.58

(IOSR-JVSP) 2.82

(IOSR-JDMS) 5.164

(IOSR-JBB) 3.98 (IOSR-JPTE) 2.86 All Indexes in Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Open J Gate, Jour Informatics and many more....

URL: www.iosrjournals.Org

Mail id: [email protected]

Regards

Editorial Board IOSR Journals

-END OF literal QUOTE-

NB: vide /visit also:

The DOLOS-LIST@ https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list

Also: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Would_it_be_a_good_initiative_to_constitute_a_collective_of_researchers_to_publicly_and_collectively_denounce_predatory_publishing,

there see:

Answer [004&&] by Prof. Dr. Alexandre GEORGES and his ‚DOLOS list of predatory and flaky journals‘

and answer [011] by Prof. Dr. Ljubomir JACIC and

„This action is the right one against predatory publishers!:

Open-Access Plan in Europe Bans Publishing in Paywalled Journals

Research funding agencies in Europe will require grantees’ papers to be free to read when they are available online...

https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2018/09/open-access-publishing-forges-ahead-in-europe/

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/open-access-plan-in-europe-bans-publishing-in-paywalled-journals-64748“.

Best wishes and regards

Wolfgang. I appreciate your time, contribution and clarification

I searched and realised they are not genuine. I have some work to be published but most genuine ones even charge exaubitant fees. This will give room to independent or self-sponsored researchers giving in to less-charging journals and before one realises what is happening, he will find out later that he has published with fake ones.

I usually take a lot of time to find out about a journal reputation before I publish.

I am getting confused about the list of fake journals which is published in https://beallslist.weebly.com/ . Please anyone give clarification about the list of fake journals .

IOSR is clearly in the list of fake journals. Unfortunately its presentation appears very genuine to many and by the time you realize it is fake, you are already a victim. A friend of mine referred me to the journal and because it appeared too genuine to me, i submitted my paper without any research. I became suspicious when after paying for publication i got the acknowledgment from (Chettan58 @gmail.com). I questioned this but i did not get any response. I then decided to withdraw my paper and clearly stated to them that i did not want to publish with them. They again did not respond and after about 3 months, i received a congratulatory email folowwing their publication of my paper. I was sent a hard copy certificate though at paying point i had requested for a soft copy. Now i have learnt a lesson, any journal that is charging is likely to be fake.

Dear Eunice Mvungu,

Let me tell you, this IOSR journals used to be good 3 years ago and were recommended by Professors with authority in academia. But since it was publishing very fast everyone who was tired with European and American publishers moved to IOSR..... Today they don't review papers, just accept without corrections.

But you need to know one thing:

If you are in sub-Saharan Africa, it will be very difficult for you to publish with journals which call themselves SCIE journals...Most of them publish thru Elsevier, IEEE, and Springer, MDPI, Sage journals etc.

We used to publish with those guys when we were in Germany and Asia but the truth is that all are politics...

I can't count email and phone calls from Elsevier and Springer requesting me to work with them in consortium. My question to them was very simple, why do you charge a lot of money for a scholar to access your journals while you don't pay publishers???!!!!

My advise is simple Eunice:

If you want to publish your serious work, forget those big journals. They are just in business like IORS.... As long as you need to inform other scholars about what you know you can publish with anyone who will distribute your opinion very fast..

Every publish knows that today Publication is a requirement for a student in postgraduate studies or University staff who need promotion especially in Kenya.....They are just taking advantage of the system weakness.

If you want you can even publish with Facebook, LinkedIn etc if your main objective to communicate.

Again:

NB: vide /visit also:

The DOLOS-LIST@ https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list

The predatory journals :-(

Honestly added:

they are actively spamming selected and possible "authors" right now....(received an e-mail from them last Tuesday, signed by a "Terrence Neumann", Editorial Head", which IMHO has been inserted as a "fake name"

(the one Terrence Neumann I found [by Googleing "T.N." AND IOSR] to be at University of Chicago did tell me via LinkedIn that it was not him, and another / the other one, T. N., Professor in the Chemistry Department at Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, TX [ Chemical Hygiene Officer, [email protected] ] I was not able to locate right now by e-mail or LinkedIn....

Following the text of this UNSOLICITED and SPAMMING E-Mail

Sent from/by:

fgsafaj [email protected] to e-mail-addresses of 30 specialists in microscopy (some of them also on ResearchGate),

[NB: daum.net: korean provider / communication platform]

Di=TUES 09.04.2019 14:28

"Conc.: Top Indexing Journal

Dear Author

We are happy to announce you that IOSR Journals have started a online platform for Online Soft copy of Certificate and Detailed Review Report. www.iosrreport.org

Note: Journal will also provide hard copy of certificates to all authors as previous. This initiative is for speed up the process of Publication for better support to authors.

Important Date:-

Submission last Date : 15th April 2019

Publication Date : 25th April 2019

Papers are invited for IOSR Journals April 2019 Issue related to all field of Engineering, Management, Medical & Dental Science, Pharmacy, Applied Sciences, Nursing, Humanities and Social Science etc.

Regards

Dr. Terence Neumann

Editorial Head,

IOSR Journals

Email Id- [email protected] "

Best regards, WHM

this journal is really fake .they accept any research without any correction.last time after I have paid the full charge , they sent incorrect issue to me. and when I asked them to send the correct one with several Emails ,bigging them that I need that issue

. they never reply on me .

with a funny way last week they sent me this massage

we are happy to announce you that IOSR Journals have started a online platform for Online Soft copy of Certificate and Detailed Review Report. www.iosrreport.org

Note: Journal will also provide hard copy of certificates to all authors as previous. This initiative is for speed up the process of Publication for better support to authors.

Regards

Dr. Terence Neumann

Editorial Head,

IOSR Journals

www.iosrjournals.org

I searched that man Terence Neumann as a Dr. I found him just a Fake name

please for any researcher ,don't deal with this fake journal

Dear Ahmad Sayedel Tahan ,

....you may feel intrigued by the fact that you most probably got the same message I reported on with my previous answer on April 12th [#037] ....

And, as I also said:

"the one Terrence Neumann I found

[by Googleing >> "Terrence Neumann" AND IOSR

I regret to have published two articles in that fake journal