Dear Marco Pereira

No, I think it is not a good idea. I see numerous red flags:

-The publisher behind the journal is “Research & Review” is mentioned in the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net )

-Their indexing info (https://www.rroij.com/indexing-pure-and-applied-physics.php ) is full of so-called misleading metrics (https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/ ) like CiteFactor, Cosmos and I2OR

-On their homepage they prominently mention an Impact factor and Cite score, while they are not indexed in one of Clarivate’s indices (https://mjl.clarivate.com/home ) and Scopus (https://www.scopus.com/sources )

-One of their other journals even suggest indexing in SCImago, which is a pertinent lie

Personally, I would avoid this one

-Their APC for a basically non-indexed journal is ridiculously high (https://www.rroij.com/instructionsforauthors-pure-and-applied-physics.php )

Best regards.

Dear Marco Pereira,

Besides looking to the flags as mentioned by Rob Keller, it also helps to scan through a few of the recently published papers. For example:

https://www.rroij.com/pdfdownload.php?download=open-access/light-force-of-friction-and-the-ether-as-teflon.pdf&aid=92378

https://www.rroij.com/open-access/light--the-ether.pdf

(also read the acknowledgement)

This will tell you that there is (often) no (rigorous) review of submitted manuscripts.

Regards,

Stefan

Thank you, Stefan Persijn and Rob Keller