Hello Christopher Bush

To be honest, I do not know that journal specifically. My experience, however, is that if the journal contacts you (and I have those daily), that is usually a bad sign.

Dear Christopher Bush ,

The publisher behind the journal “Advances in Social Science and Culture” is “Scholink Co., Ltd.” (http://www.scholink.org/Home.html ). This publisher is mentioned in the Beall’s list of potential predatory publishers (https://beallslist.net ). This is a red flag and by itself not enough to say that the journal/publisher is predatory, but there are more red flags:

-Contact info mentions most likely just virtual offices, see for example https://www.davincivirtual.com/loc/us/california/los-angeles-virtual-offices/facility-4424

-According to their FAQ section they state in question nine “Scholink is a new publisher found and created in 2012. Therefore, the ability to assess our impact has not been possible. Once we have enough data, we will place it on the journal homepage.” Now ten years later not a single of their journals has any serious indexing (Scopus, impact factor etc.)

-The same is true for the journal “Advances in Social Science and Culture”. Not a single serious index (http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/assc ). Just (mostly) pointless ‘indexing’ like Yahoo…

-Papers have virtually no editing

-The announcement section (http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/assc/announcement ) mentions relative while they mean related and talk about “doctorial [sic] degree” and at the same time “proficiency in English”

-Looking at their editorial team there are no reviewers from the US and the UK (http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/assc/about/editorialTeam ). In other words, why use locations that suggest this origin while it is not

So, not sure whether predatory is the most accurate ‘label’ but the quality is questionable. Personally, I would avoid this one.

Best regards.

Thanks Joseph for really great feedback