If you added some information about the nature of your research you might receive more explicit information
When one make use of blacklists, be careful to have a look at the right list, there are lists of potential predatory journals and there are lists of potential predatory publishers. “Academic Journals” (https://academicjournals.org ) is mentioned here https://predatoryreports.org/publisher-list-1 (This is the exact copy of the original list which can be found here https://beallslist.net ). So, based on this they might be/are predatory.
Back to the question predatory or not I think it is important to stress that mentioning in the Beall’s list is a red flag but by itself not enough to say yes or no. In the case of the publisher “Academic Journals” I think that based on a little analysis I did a few years ago Method Predatory journals and publishers: a menace to science and s...
that this publisher is trying to get their act together throughout the years (and because of this should be delisted from the Beall’s list).However, looking at the ISABB journal it is clear that this journal suffers from the lack of content due to the lack of submissions of manuscripts. Personally I would go to one of their more popular titles like https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJEST or go for another publisher and try for example https://www.springer.com/journal/40201 (if you decline the open access option it is for free) or have a look here https://www.researchgate.net/post/Scientific_Journals_with_Open_Access_and_no_APC_free_charges_for_authors for a free open access journal.
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PS. I am very much doubting the intentions and quality of this "predatory reports" website. All their lists are copy pasted from https://beallslist.net and https://beallslist.net/standalone-journals/ without a proper mentioning of the source. If this is the way they operate then I cannot take this site serious, see also https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_your_opinion_about_this_reporthttps_predatoryreportsorg_news_f_list-of-all-mdpi-predatory-publicationsfbclidIwAR2FbGSY4Dktl4X8GWkcfgAuB
I have a lot of sympathy for anyone trying to publish these days. The Beall's list is outdated ( but the criteria used is not), and somewhat before the explosion in the number of journals and the concurrent expansion of Ph.D. diploma 'mills'. So it is incumbent on the author to perform an evaluation based on the preponderance of the 'red flags', ie. qualifications of the review panels, citation paths, affiliations, and the quality of other papers ( one quick clue I use is the reference / bibliography of those papers and the amount and quality of the entries) in one's domain which have appear in the journals article lists. I found it useful to understand the actual mechanism working underneath the predatory journals to identify indicators, see: "DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras_VYgA77Q
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