Recently my team has got a manuscript accepted in International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. As per policy of the journal, we shall have to send the registration money. However, prior to send the money, I didn't find any satisfactory website of this journal.
Dear Rashed
As you expected, this journal is not peer reviewed (though they claim that journal have IF of 1+). While communicating a manuscript please check for journal indexing (SCI or SCIE and PubMed indexed journals are peer reviewed journals). Here with i am attaching a PDF with list of peer reviewed journal for the year 2013 (by Thomson Reuters). you can choose the best one from the list for your manuscript..all the best
Dear Naveen,
Thank you very much for the information. I am keeping the list you sent. Thanks once again.
Dear Naveen,
May I get a help from you about the true information on Science Publishing group Journals? I have got two manuscripts accepted in the Science Publishing Group: one in American Journal of BioScience (Manuscript No. 2190120) and another in American Journal of Biomedical and Life Sciences (Manuscript No. 6550117). Unfortunately, still I see the online status both to be "under review".
Also, while surfing the web, I found something contradictory about this publishing group, for example, Matin R claimed this published group as a scam. I hope that not the actual case. However, noticing the discrepancy between your e-mails and the online status and further observing such suspicious blogs on Science Publishing Group, the authors of the accepted manuscript got confused whether I should proceed further as the corresponding author.
Actually, the reliability of a journal highly depends on the pace among the e-mails and the simultaneous changes in the online status. I have published more 50 papers so far, but such type of online status difficulty appeared to me for the first time. In this circumstances, according to your experience and observation, what do you suggest?
Thank you in advance.
Rashed
This journal is in scopus, Scimagojr.com
Atleast this may prove it's authenticity that it's present in scopus database. However it's not a very big journal but it's just a ok journal which is indexed in Scopus.
They are showing that their journal is also indexed in elsvier in addition to scopus. In research gate its impact factor is 1.59.Is this journal is international according to its name.Please clear me, because my paper is also accepted in this journal, and they are also asking me registration fees of Rs.2400 (500 Rs for each author + some extra charge).
IJPPS also asked me for the registration fee. At least in the Thomson Reuters impact factor list, I didn't find this journal.
But it is indexed in scopus, they showed that their journal is indexed in elsvier , but I did not find its name there..Indexed in scopus means ,it is authentic ,right???
The journal is authenticated in a sense that it is cited frequently, which appears in the Google Scholar Citations. Another factor is that many established scientists have papers here whose h-index is quite good. Also, since this journal is indexed in Scopus (even not directly in Elsevier, let alone PubMed), this is acceptable and authenticated. As I have mentioned earlier, the citation frequency of this journal is really high and well visible to a wide range of readers.
I am unable to find it is the latest JCR list 2014-15 released in June 2015 as well as in the previous JCR lists
So, it's really controversial. Better not to publish with IJPPS further. Even though It has the citations as seen in the Google Scholar. The case is like the Science PG journals; they have the DOI number, but the journals are still in debate. Such cases are problematic for many young researchers.
http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700174810&tip=sid
According to above link ,it is authentic
It's indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, Google scholar, index copernicus, J Gate, EBSCO ( A Body of Elsevier like Scopus). All indexing have been verified by me on the authentic websites of these bodies. So what else they must show to prove they are authentic.
Good to know such justification since I have a couple of papers there. By the last 3 years, IJPPS improved a lot regarding indexing. So, the controversy is over.
that may be indexed in hundreds but not index in JCR by thomson reuters......
Thomson Reuters is not only the parameter to make any journal authentic......... Thomsom Reuter journals ( pubmed for medical journals) are on top but it doesn't mean there is no space for scopus indexed journals...the question was only about the authenticity of the journal........ so we must not criticize the Scopus index journals......they too are ok
Tell me about processing charges for publication of an article in the journal.
M. Ali
If more than 2 authors then it's 500 per author otherwise 1000 per author. I have published and got the same mail so no questions on what I said. Thanks and Regards
There is no information about the publication charges in the instructions given. Is it after the acceptance they send you a mail asking you to pay?
Hi everyone,
I am serving as associate editor of the journal.
gone through the discussion and felt to give some clarification regarding some issues raised in this discussion.
1. IJPPS is indexed in various databases of Elsevier and its products like Ebsco emabase etc. it is not published with Elsevier. one can search in the websites of the same.
2. impact factor displayed in the Research gate is not correct and like to edit the information given. if any one can guide me how to correct it.
3. any information given on our website is 100% authentic and we do not put any fake information on it.
4. fee of the publication is also clearly mentioned in Instructions to authors.
5. IJPPS is purely peer reviewed journal and we are doing hard work to improve quality publication in IJPPS day by day.
I would like to thanks all the followers and authors for their comments and awareness, which will definitely guide us for the further improvements.
After a long time I have visited the IJPPS website there it shows it is indexed in Elsevier beside other data bases is it correct?
Hi,
I would like to ask, is this journal indexed by Scopus? I have look at Scopus website, it stated only until 2016. How about 2017?
Thank you.
Could anyone explain me why ijpps was removed from UGC approved journal list?
Better to publish in Journal of Medical Research and Innovation (www.jmri.org.in)
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