Dear Aniseh Abdalla ,

This journal “International Journal of Automotive Science and Technology (IJASTECH)” is unknown to me. When I look at it, I see some good signs:

-They are a member of DOAJ (https://doaj.org/ ), which is often seen as a ‘white-list’ for open access journals

-Papers have a legit DOI

-They charge no fee

-Papers seems to be okay (submission and acceptance info, info about number of reads and downloads, etc.)

One thing is a bit disturbing:

-They use a prominently mentioned impact factor while they are not indexed in SCIE of Clarivate

-The ‘impact factor’ corresponds to the CiteFactor which is a so-called misleading metric. See for more info on this: https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/

Still, I estimate this journal as a legit and genuine journal that most likely will receive one or more serious indexing soon.

Best regards.