I have received an invitation for member of the editorial board for Advances in Neurology and Neurosciences. I would like to know what do You think about it ? It is worth to accept it ? This journal as I see doesn't have a impact factor and articles published in it are not indexed in Pubmed. Thank You for all opinions and comments. Maybe You have also received such invitations ?
Hi Marcin,
In my opinion this invitation is acceptable . It is an honour that you should look ahead. Also, I think it will have the impact factor soon.
Being on an editorial board of another journal (indexed in Pubmed), I receive 2-3 review invitations per month that I can either accept or decline, and I decline those that are outside of my field of expertise. In addition, I receive regular invitations from other journals in my field that do not have formal "editorial boards". Reviews do take significant time from my main work, but this is a volunteer professional service that we can choose to do depending on our current priorities. Hope it helps you decide.
I receive those invitations almost every single day. I go straight to Beall's list ( https://clinicallibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers/ ). OPAST (publisher of "Advances in Neurology and Neurosciences ") has been on the list for at least 2 years.
If their email begins with something like "greetings", "good day", or something similar, you can be 99.9% sure that it's from journals referred to as 'predatory'.
I also refer to Shamsheer et al. (2017) which provides a list of items to go through - have a look at Table 10. For example, the opast site shows a plethora of unrelated journals, does not have a contact email address, and the physical address is actually a house in Kansas. Some journals list their address, and when you look it up on google earth it's actually a restaurant. Be careful.
Being a member of the journal's editorial board is an honor. The larger the more known the magazine is. But the practices of some magazines raise doubts. Some call them "predatory". I am afraid that being a member of the board of such a magazine may not be beneficial to the reputation of researcher.
Thank You all for Your valuable comments. Thank You Jerome Maller for an idea to check a journal's address (Budapest, Szobránc utca 16. 1. em. 4) at google maps. I do it and I have found that Inter Gastro Service Kft is located there !
http://ologyjournals.com/anns/index
https://www.ceginformacio.hu/cr9311295940_EN
It really sounds strange !
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