Dear Colleagues,
I have just received yet another e-mail out of the blue, inviting me to publish an article with their journal. This time the journal is called, American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research. I immediately ran a check on it in the list of predatory journals and - luckily - didn't find it there, but a one with a similar name, American Journal of Social issues and Humanities.
Is it safe to assume that the two have no correlation at all, and I'm able to publish in a non-predatory journal this time? Or am I just jumping to conclusions here?
What are your thoughts on this issue?
Best regards,
László
Dear László Kárpáti ,
If you go to the updated version of the Beall’s list:
https://beallslist.weebly.com/standalone-journals.html#update
The journal “American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research” is unfortunately mentioned.
The other journal “American Journal of Social issues and Humanities” corresponds to a link that is no longer working (as far as I can see the journal stopped in 2013), see for more details through a link I found:
http://52.172.159.94/index.php/ajih/about/aboutus
As far as I can see there is no correlation.
However besides the fact that the journal “American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research” Is mentioned in (the updated version of) Beall’s list, there are some additional red flags:
-Papers have no DOI
-Indexing is somewhat misleading since they mention “editorial board is planning all papers in following indexing”
-The “contact us” section only mention a gmail address… and there is no information about a real location (which is suspect and makes you wonder why call yourself American…).
-Looking at a number of the published papers, there is no mentioning of information about submission date, date of revision and date of acceptance etc. Combined with the info that is mentioned on their site about a few days of registration etc. it seems to suggest there is no peer review.
All together I feel this is a journal to avoid.
Best regards.
Dear László
The journal does not appear in the Scopus 2019 list, which is a good and comprehensive guide for recognized journals.
Hence, I suggest you rather find an equivalent journal from this list (attached).
Kind regards
Rodney
Dear László Kárpáti ,
If you go to the updated version of the Beall’s list:
https://beallslist.weebly.com/standalone-journals.html#update
The journal “American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research” is unfortunately mentioned.
The other journal “American Journal of Social issues and Humanities” corresponds to a link that is no longer working (as far as I can see the journal stopped in 2013), see for more details through a link I found:
http://52.172.159.94/index.php/ajih/about/aboutus
As far as I can see there is no correlation.
However besides the fact that the journal “American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research” Is mentioned in (the updated version of) Beall’s list, there are some additional red flags:
-Papers have no DOI
-Indexing is somewhat misleading since they mention “editorial board is planning all papers in following indexing”
-The “contact us” section only mention a gmail address… and there is no information about a real location (which is suspect and makes you wonder why call yourself American…).
-Looking at a number of the published papers, there is no mentioning of information about submission date, date of revision and date of acceptance etc. Combined with the info that is mentioned on their site about a few days of registration etc. it seems to suggest there is no peer review.
All together I feel this is a journal to avoid.
Best regards.
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