The journal belongs to the Open Access Publishing Group which is categorized as predatory publishing under Beall's list but after checking the journal, it is not included. Since it is published under predatory publishing, should the journal be considered predatory?
Dear Damianus Abun
The short answer is yes. The ‘logic’ behind the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net ) is and I quote: “All journals published by a predatory publisher are potentially predatory unless stated otherwise.” Looking somewhat into the details behind the journal “European Journal of Social Sciences Studies” (https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/index ):
-The indexing info is full of so-called misleading metrics like CiteFactor and OAJI (https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/ ) often used by predatory journals/publishers
-Despite the Romanian origin (according to the vague contact info) no one in the editorial board has any link with this country https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/about/editorialTeam
-The APC is (for a claimed) European Journal suspiciously low https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/about/editorialPolicies#custom-7
-Looking at for example https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/issue/view/131 I see numerous papers that have nothing to do with the scope of journal
-Even if it is somewhat genuine they have even after almost ten years no serious indexing (Scopus, Clarivate’s ESCI, SCIE or SSCI, PubMed, etc.)
Personally, I would say avoid.
Best regards.
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