Fellow Scientists/Researchers/Scholars
I recently got contacted by a certain Editor (name undisclosed for privacy reasons) of a journal, who invited me to submit a paper in
* International Organization of Scientific Invention (IOSI)*.
According to the editor's email "IOSI is an International body which is approved by Govt. of India. It publish(es) scientific research work for more than 75 countries in the area of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Food Science. We will publish your paper in Very Short Period of Review."
While all this sounds ok, the thing that concerned me the most was that the person claimed in the email that,
"All submitted paper may be reviewed within 3 days, we will provide Hard Copy of Paper and Certificates to each Author".
I do not know if it is even possible to arrange such a fast review!!! And even if it issomehow arranged, can one justify the authenticity of the peer review in such a short period?
This discussion thread aims at
1. Getting your opinions / experiences, about this or similar journal editors, who might have contacted you,
2. To create awareness about such journals' legitemacy and how is it effecting the quality of publication in scientific community.
Your views are most welcome.
Regards
Dr. Waqas Hassan
Dr. Tanveer,
First, there is no need for privacy for a person who is supposed to be an editor and emailed you a request to submit a paper. You would have to disclose this to your coauthors, and you did what is correct by asking about this publisher.
Second, this publisher is listed on Beall's List of Predatory Publishers.
Third, the company website is not for a publisher. And the links from their call for papers (on a blog) links to non existent pages. Apparently their are no journal pages (and articles) that can be easily found.
Fourth, the journal titles seem to be chosen more to attract papers by naive researchers than proper disciplinary areas.
https://clinicallibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers/
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Robert John Wolff Thank you for your valuable comments. I did not want to put the name out until I was sure about the legitimacy of the journal/publisher.
I was unfamiliar with this Beall's List of Predatory Publishers, until now so many thanks for updating me. Indeed, there are many red signals here. I hope scientists do not waste their time and money at these predatory publishers by discussions and links like the one you shared
Mushtaq Ahmad
Thank you for sharing the link. Much appreciated.
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