When you are doing research and finds something that seems to be interesting and relevant, do you think, based in the evidences published and your results, that it can be published. But when you published this results in a journal that you think that is suitable, but you discovered that it is not the case, actually, do you discovered that journal is part of a predatory publisher? What do you do? And if this publication, can turnish your academic reputation, in a negative way? What do you do?
Send a message to the editor of the predatory journal stating that you are withdrawing your paper.
If it is really a predatory journal, they will not publish your paper until you have paid a large amount of money.
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The problem is with journals that are in your second, maybe third year of publication, which are not defined as predatory at this moment, and when asked why they don't have an impact factor, they answer that they don't have, because don't have 5 or 6 year, the time that, according to them, it will let to receive an impact factor. So they make you, and the others authors, to sign a document because if you don't sign it they don't publish your article, saying that if any of the authors withdraw, for don't accept his name in that paper, the authors will must pay 10.000 dollars to the journal. And surprise, when the journal makes 5 years, it is not receive an impact factor. I mentioning this, because I did see this happen, no one told me. Other detail, is that articles published in these journals appears in the PMC on the pubmed. Despite that, in NLM Catalog in pubmed, when you search for that journal, appears that it is "Not currently indexed for MEDLINE". The same notification that appears when the authors submitted the manuscript to that journal, several years ago.
Hi,
I am not sure what is your research field, but my advice to you is to publish only in quality journals that are published by quality publishers, such as Springer, Elsevier , Wiley and more. I am sure that you will not encounter there fraud and deception .
Thank you for your answer Avishag.
But I have tried this. Actually, I've tried for 6 times, in 6 different renowned journals, one after other, but the manuscript doesn't was accepted in none of them (Physiological Reports, Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, UROLOGY, American Journal of Nephrology, PLOSone). So, almost 1 year and a half after finished my Masters, my advisor told me to submit for this journal, which was a new journal, and that after some years it would receive an impact factor. So, believing in my advisor, I submitted to them. And in these days, we discovered that this journal is predatory, actually, the publisher is considered predatory.
Hi,
This is very unfortunate situation. Maybe you could extract results from your work, and develop it into a new paper, go through some professional editing (recommended to all non-English speakers), and send it to a quality journal.
Hello,
When we submitted to this "journal", they forced us to submit together a certificate that our paper was reviewed for an english native speaker (American Journal of Experts, Certification Verification Key: 6B68-CC3A-C4E2-BFB2-F35C), which we did it.
Hi,
This is strange. My native language is not English and I have published many papers in international journals, and was never asked for such verification key. Maybe it is done in certain disciplines and not in others..
Yes, I believe this is the case, because I have heard from others colleagues this kind of necessity in my area before we submitted it to them. Besides that, the publisher's headquarters was in Pleasanton (California/USA), so we assumed that it was an appropriate publisher. But we should have suspected, when the editor from that journal attributed a DOI (10.5527/wjn.v3.i3.85) for our paper that does not work.
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