Dear Mohammad, I looked for it on the web, and everything seems to point it out as a predator journal. Their home page is very colorfull and lacks of relevant information like indexation. Publons do not have any record of this editorial. In addition to that, I took the time to check one paper, and its “quality” is below of what you would expect of a paper that have undergone a real peer review process, for which I have my doubts they really do that. Also, I checked the doi of that paper and it doesn’t exist! Unbelievable! They charge you more than €1100 and you paper’s doi is not even active (event worst, is not real!).

Borneo Journal of Pharmacy has had improved a lot and it has great potential now that I’ll be indexed to Embase.

So, to make a long story short, I believe you should keep working as hard as you’ve been doing in the journal and not giving it to a predator editorial.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Longdom_Conferences_predatory you can find answer here

Are they same company Sir? They website is different?

Dear Mohammad, I looked for it on the web, and everything seems to point it out as a predator journal. Their home page is very colorfull and lacks of relevant information like indexation. Publons do not have any record of this editorial. In addition to that, I took the time to check one paper, and its “quality” is below of what you would expect of a paper that have undergone a real peer review process, for which I have my doubts they really do that. Also, I checked the doi of that paper and it doesn’t exist! Unbelievable! They charge you more than €1100 and you paper’s doi is not even active (event worst, is not real!).

Borneo Journal of Pharmacy has had improved a lot and it has great potential now that I’ll be indexed to Embase.

So, to make a long story short, I believe you should keep working as hard as you’ve been doing in the journal and not giving it to a predator editorial.

Dear Mohammad Rizki Fadhil Pratama ,

The publisher “Longdom Publishing SL” is listed in the update of Beall’s list:

https://beallslist.net/#update

One example of their journals is “Advances In Medical Ethics (Longdom Publishing)” with the critical remark (2019): "When asked, one editor attest to the fact that his editorship was forged. Publisher is on the Beall’s list". See:

https://ethicsblog.crb.uu.se/2018/05/02/where-to-publish-and-not-to-publish-in-bioethics-the-2018-list/

There are some indications that this publisher is originally (or at least somehow linked to) OMICS (‘known’ for their dubious conferences and publication practices). Like their journal “Endocrinology & Metabolic Syndrome” see for example:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/63d1/efbbcb301c617ad3a921413d6fce814a64b1.pdf

https://www.longdom.org/open-access/rare-genetic-cases-of-heterotopic-ossification-2161-1017.1000105.pdf

If you go to the OMICS journal “Journal of Metabolic Syndrome” and go to 'related journals' and click on “Endocrinology & Metabolic Syndrome” you are redirected to Longdom Publishing.

So, avoid.

Best regards,

PS. As said by Luis Castillo your institutional journal is worth better, the membership of DOAJ is a good sign of quality.

Thank you very much Dr. Luis and Dr. Keller, yes we have ended contact with them.

We just curious what are they and where are they from.

Best regards,

Mohammad Rizki Fadhil Pratama

Thank you all for sharing this information. "Revista das Ciências da Computação" https://journals.uab.pt/index.php/rcc/about received a similar offer to be acquired.

Best regards

Thanks for sharing, Mohammad! Our journal recently got this offer too! Their website is quite tempting. Also, thank you to Dr.Rob Keller and Luis Castillo for those valuable answers.

I am the editor-in-chief of InfoDesign - Brazilian Journal of Information Design , and I also got a message from Longdom today, offering acquisition.

Thank you all for this helpful information

I just received this email from them:

Dear Editor/Publisher,

I am Kristina, representative of LONGDOM PUBLISHING, an eminent publishing company that has been serving the scientific society for more than 3 years. Working hand-in-hand with esteemed professionals in disseminating sources of scientific knowledge to the audience present all around the globe. As an Open Access publisher, we are specialized in publishing journals in the realm of medical, clinical, etc.

While doing research I have found that your journal “International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health” has tremendous potential would like to express our gratitude for the efforts you have taken for bolstering the journal which fascinates us to contact you for a proposition for your consideration.

We really wish to add your journal “International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health “ in our catalog. I think it will be the best fit for both of us to achieve great results. In this pursuit it would be a great pleasure to talk to you in greater detail, please let me know how your calendar looks for this week. If you are interested in selling your journal, I would come up with the full particulars of our proposal for the Acquisition. If you’re interested, please let me know your expectation about price.

I'm assuming you're the best person for this - If not, could you please help me by providing the right person (name and email id) whom we can contact?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards,

Kristina Evangelou

Business Development Executive

Email: [email protected]

WhatsApp Number: +44 20 3966 7309    

The same proposition of LONGDOM PUBLISHING for our journal Economía Teoría y Práctica.

We have to stop them .

Best regards to all of you.

I received a similar offer.

Thank you for the information.

I also received an offer from Pulsus group.

What do you think about Pulsus?

Editor in Chief of JHIPH

Very much a predatory journal. I have personal experience about this (unfortunately) and I can confirm that this very much is a predatory journal. Please stay away from this journal. They used to have about 40 editorial board members, some of them dead and some completely unqualified to be in the editorial board. They currently have three, and twho of them have expressed an interest to me to resign.

They keep mailing us once per month with same content, even we've already declined they offer.

Sure they didn't send it with concern.

I got same offer

Dear Manal R Koura ,

Be aware. The Pulsus Group is now owned by OMICS (notourious predatory publisher!), see for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsus_Group

They are as Pulsus Group also included in the Beall’s list: https://beallslist.net/ See also:

http://flakyj.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-pulsus-group-is-omics-company.html One of the journals mentioned on their website: https://www.pulsus.com/ called “Journal of Orthopaedics and Trauma (JOT)” is published by “Ashdin Publishing” which is also mentioned in the Beall’s list.

In other words, it is a web of predatory companies (looking misleadingly professional) you better can stay away from.

Think your journal “Journal of High Institute of Public Health (JHIPH)” with a DOAJ membership and DOI assigned to every paper (https://jhiphalexu.journals.ekb.eg/ ) deserves better.

Best regards.

Rob Keller

Thank you very much. Your advice is highly appreciated.

we declined the offer.

we are providing high quality peer reviewed non for profit service for the academia in the Middle East.

we are looking forward for indexing on PubMed and an impact factor.

All our editors and reviewers are distinguished faculty members.

The Journal of High Institute of Public Health JHIPH is not for sale.

We are not making a business.

it’s a prestigious journal published regularly since 1970

They have just offered us US$ XX,xxx for all rights to the International Journal of Psychotherapy. I think they are buying up titles to get access to their back-list of articles, price them highly and ... money, money, money!