Allied Academies unfortunately signed a contract with OMICS International, a known predatory publisher. ... If any publisher should be able to make competent business decisions, it is a publisher of scholarly business journals.

Sudhir Yadav actually I'd like to know that is Allied Academies and Allied Business Academies same or different publishing houses? because their website URL is different.

Predatory or vanity publisher, it does not matter. Ask yourself these questions

• Are their articles indexed on Google Scholar
• Will your article be open-sourced?
• Are fees not too exorbitant? Ahmed Al Asheq if you answer yes to all three publish. You will be judged and receive citations by the quality of your work not the reputation of the journal. And by all means, preprint here at Researchgate and get a DOI. There is even a project called https://www.researchgate.net/project/Publication-in-the-best-international-journals?

Dear Ahmed Al Asheq ,

According to: https://www.emeraldcityjournal.com/2016/10/allied-academies-bad-business-decisions-misdirected-blame-and-a-new-name/ “Allied Academies” (https://www.alliedacademies.org/) and “Allied Business Academies” (https://www.abacademies.org/) belong to the same company which is associated to OMICS International, a notorious predatory publisher. Facts are:

-“Allied Academies” is mentioned in the Beall’s list of potential predatory publishers: https://beallslist.net/

-I notice that the contact info of both publishers is the same that seems to confirm that they both are one and the same company

-Looking at the Scopus indexing I see that in the meantime roughly half of their journals is discontinued in Scopus (see also enclosed file)

-Looking at for example https://www.abacademies.org/journals/journal-of-the-international-academy-for-case-studies-home.html I see that they mention CiteFactor a notorious example of a misleading metric: https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/

-For example the journal https://www.abacademies.org/journals/academy-of-entrepreneurship-journal-home.html is indeed Scopus indexed https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700175174 and Scopus mentioned Allied Academies as the publisher (again a confirmation that both publisher are one and the same). I notice in the Scopus content coverage a suspect increase in published papers in the last two years (for Scopus often one of the reasons to discontinue the title the next year) Update 15-12-2021: Title is now discontinued

So, taken all these red flags I would say avoid.

Best regards.

Dear Rob Keller , thank you so much for your evidence-based feedback, which has helped me a lot.

Thanks, Mr. Ahmed Al Asheq

Dear Rob Keller, thank you so much for you information

Rob Keller . Thank you so much for your in-depth answer. Was about to join one of Allied Academies conferences and decide to search it here first. Scientist like you make RG the pinnacle of social networking for academia.

Yes . They will ask for money and send you an invoice after paper acceptance. they wont inform you prior about payment

Siddesh Pai, I am experiencing the same. Don't know whether to proceed or not. Really confused!

From my research, it is predatory journal. Don't waste your time and knowledge

Thanks for the response

Thank you for your clarification on the authenticity of this journal. It's helpful.

I would not use abacademies. I used them once and thought they were a reputable publisher. Their customer service is nonexistent. I got an invoice from them stating that my journal would get published in a Scopus Indexed journal in two months. After payment was made the two months kept getting extended by another two months. Finally, after five months, once it was published, they published it in a blacklisted journal. I have lost $900 and on top of it, I lost my credibility with my institution. DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU