Unfortunately, there is no body that oversees the practice of the journals. In general, magazines act freely and they are the ones who decide when and who talks about a certain topic. Until something is organized against the abusive practices of magazines, everything will remain the same.

Dawood Rahimi

Dear Researcher,

Thank you for the interesting topic of discussion.

I would like to go with the opinion expressed by Gustavo Eduardo Toledo Lara . This industry is a semi organized industry. There are no such bodies where you can file a complaint.

I will just advise you to stay away from that journal and just concentrate in what you are doing. Many people are already so proud of what you are doing.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

How can we distinguish that the J. is stamped as predatory - whether ISSN , Impact factor of the same are marked and revoked under intellectual property rights ( IPR ) ?

My general advice: Keep track on the review process and if it takes too long (depending on promises made by the journal), send a friendly message to the editor. Most often you will receive a timely and adequate reply. If you're unhappy with the outcome, the only suitable addressee for a complaint is the editor.

https://www.researchgate.net › post

How can I complain about a certain journal? - ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_complain_about_a_certain_journal,kindly check this link.

It can only be through IP rights according to the national legislation. Most IP rights fall into the WTO multilateral agreement TRIPS that have incorporated the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (patents, industrial designs, etc), and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (copyright). All 164 present state-members of WTO signed TRIPS.

Every year, they are a list of journals classified as predatory. Check on line via Google

@Christian Nkurunziza

@Gustavo Eduardo Toledo Lara

@Anamitra Roy

@Jaydip Datta

@Faraed Salman

@Ivo Carneiro de Sousa

Dear Colleagues,

I am very grateful for your excellent comments, views, and recommendations regarding my question.

Unfortunately, about 3 weeks ago I was deceived by a predatory Journal in the name of "Sleep Disorders & Therapy"! They have invited me to submit one of my excellent preprint articles (http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-309380/v1 ) in their Journal.

Consequently, I went through their Journal Website, the IF was 4.83 with many indexes. Most of the articles in this journal were indexed in PubMed! That is, I have submitted my manuscript in their Journal. After a week I have received their reviewer comment (see below). According to the “positive comments from their reviewers” I find out that there is something wrong with journal claims and credibility. So, I asked them to provide more information regarding their claims (https://www.longdom.org/sleep-disorders-therapy.html) or otherwise withdraw our manuscript! But now, they refuse to do so!

Therefore, I asked you to guide me with the matter!

All the best,

Dawood

“Dear Dr. Mohammad Dawood Rahimi,

Greetings for the day

Hope you are doing well

We are glad to inform you that your article entitled "Effectiveness of jogging, eye movement exercises, and diaphragmatic breathing in patients with migraine: a randomized controlled trial" has received positive comments from our reviewers and acceptance from the editor for publication. The review comments for your manuscript was as below:

• I congratulate the author for preliminary acceptance of the article in this Journal. The author’s study on Effectiveness of Eye Movement Exercises, and Diaphragmatic Breathing with Jogging in Reducing Migraine Symptoms: A Randomized Comparison is highly appreciable. I have been waiting a long time for someone to write an article on this topic, so I was very pleased to scrutinize this article.

• The method used for this work is quite efficient because it includes data about the diagnosis of migraine based on the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD), history of migraine, migraine medications and blood pressure abnormalities among different ages.

• The author also discussed the use of pain medication was allowed between post-test and the follow-up assessments for the individuals in the control group. Individuals in the experimental groups agreed not to take pain medications, including prophylactics or any other interventions for at least three months in advance of and during the present study.

• The result of this work shows an SDs of frequency, duration, and intensity of pain in each study group at baseline, post-test, and the 12-month follow-up assessments. I completely agree with the author’s point that by practicing those entire exercises one can decrease the frequency, duration and intensity of the attacks in a brain with migraine.

• By following the authors study the result includes the improvement in sleep. Thank you for assigning me to review this article and I approve this article to be published without any changes in Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy.

As your article is under final editing stage, we will be sending you the galley proof and invoice of 1819 Euros within a week.

Kindly let we know for any concerns.

Thanks and regards

Editorial Office

Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy”!

Dear Dawood Rahimi ,

The journal “Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy” is published by “Longdom Publishing”, a publisher mentioned in the updated version of the Beall’s list of predatory publishers (https://beallslist.net/#update ). This is one big red flag, but there are more:

-The homepage https://www.longdom.org/sleep-disorders-therapy.html mentions Journal cite score which is close to criminal since CiteScore is exclusively for journals indexed by Scopus (this one is NOT a Scopus indexed journal)

-Impact factor is based on Google Scholar results https://www.longdom.org/sleep-disorders-therapy/citations.html which is misleading and meaningless since they are not indexed in one of Clarivate’s indexes (which can be checked here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home )

-Google the journal title and you end up with links like https://www.scilit.net/journal/2284301 indicating that the publisher behind the whole operation is OMICS, a publisher with an even worse reputation than Longdom. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMICS_Publishing_Group and http://flakyj.blogspot.com/search/label/OMICS

So, unfortunately the publisher behind the journal is predatory, see also here on RG https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Longdom_Publishing_a_predatory_publisher Since their whole operation is fraudulent I am afraid not much can be done. Filing a complaint will not help much since their close to criminal behaviour is well known, as a matter of fact a huge lawsuit has been started (and they were found to be guilty, see for example https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/split-ninth-circuit-upholds-50m-ftc-39830/) but apparently no one is really able to stop these people and they keep making victims.

Best regards.

Interesting question! I agree with our respected colleagues. Best regards.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y

https://doi.org/10.1111/jdv.15039

https://doi.org/10.1002/nha3.20173

Good luck.

See also these previous discussions:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Predatory_Publishing_How_to_solve_the_problem

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What-actions-can-be-taken-to-stopping-predatory-journals

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_your_thoughts_on_measures_to_curb_predatory_journals_in_the_academia

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_legal_actions_against_predatory_publishers_possible

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_government_authorities_unable_to_put_a_stop_to_predatory_journal_publishing

Dear Colleagues,

I do appreciate your comments and valuable info regarding predatory and fraudulent publishers.

We, researchers and scientists, have to do sth to stop these scams!

We have to ask PubMed, why and how these predatory articles are indexed there?

The problem is that most researchers like me have no knowledge regarding the existence of such publishers!

All the best,

Dawood

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2016/08/academics-and-scientists-beware-predatory-journal-publishers

Dear Dawood Rahimi ,

Do realize that the journal is not indexed in PubMed. They might misleadingly suggest this, but they ‘abuse’ the policy of PubMed that papers published by authors having a NIH-grant are automatically included in PubMed irrespective of the journal, see also https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22Journal+of+Sleep+Disorders+%26+Therapy%22%5BJournal%5D&sort=

This journal is, despite being a journal in the field of medicine, not indexed in Medline, see also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=%22J+Sleep+Disord+Ther%22%5BTitle+Abbreviation%5D

Best regards.

Interesting question follow for more valuable responses !

I agree with rob meller

To the postal police of your country of residence (if any).

If you've been approached or taken in by a predatory publisher, report it to the FTC( Federal Trade Commision)

The main indicators of a predatory journal are the publication of articles without careful peer review and high fees for publication. Many journals publish articles in Open access and the author pays not for publication, but for Open access. When properly peer-reviewed, these journals are not predatory.

If you see signs of a predatory journal, and this journal is included in the world citation bases (Scopus, Web of Science, etc.), you can write to the technical support of the base (Scopus, WoS) with a request to check whether this journal meets the requirements of the corresponding citation base.

Predatory with respect to what !!. To compromise quality against money . Please stop to pay APC to any J. The term predatory just vanishes .

Prof. Dawood Rahimi: Unfortunately, there is no way to file a complaint against such predatory Journals. My little brother sent the fees to a fake journal. In addition that he lost his research paper, he lost the fees! There is no guarantee that the original content of his manuscript was copied and sold to others.