I'm considering submitting a manuscript to this journal (Tobacco Regulatory Science ISSN: 2333-9748 )
Has anyone published in this journal before? I am looking to confirm that this journal is legitimate and not predatory; I am interested in learning more about the reputation of this journal and the typical publication timeline.
Dear Salah Ben Aoua
Stay away from this journal, I see disturbing issues:
-According to https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101048271 they are discontinued in Scopus, while the indexing info claims they are https://tobreg.org/index.php/journal/index-citations
-The same is true for Clarivate’s ESCI, SCIE and SSCI (it was already strange to claim to be indexed in all three indexes, this is close to impossible), they are not indexed, you can check here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home
-They have a ridiculous and completely vague author fee policy https://tobreg.org/index.php/journal/author-fees
-Looking at for example https://tobreg.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/12 they publish papers fully out of scope of the journal
-I am unable to find decent contact info (physical address etc.) https://tobreg.org/index.php/journal/about/contact
Indeed all my observations are confirmed here https://blogs.bmj.com/tc/2021/10/22/is-tobacco-regulatory-science-a-predatory-journal-hell-yeah-an-update/
It used to be a promising journal that started in 2015 but in 2021 the journal was sold and after that it went downhill: https://blogs.bmj.com/tc/2021/08/03/where-theres-smoke-theres-fire-the-dumpster-fire-that-is-the-journal-tobacco-regulatory-science/
So personally, I would avoid this one.
Best regards.
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