It is no more news that most Universities and research institutes are now rejecting predatory journals for appointment, award of funding, and promotion purposes. They prefer Q-ranked journals. Journals are ranked into four Quartiles- Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 (Q1 being the highest) by Scimago. Surprisingly some Q ranked journal have been classified as predatory. what do you think about this?
Avoid writing articles, write books, paper books at best,, in a row, edited by well-known editors. It does'nt endure too long to transform a few articles in a good booklet. This gives your reseach an honorable background.
Avoid writing articles, write books, paper books at best,, in a row, edited by well-known editors. It does'nt endure too long to transform a few articles in a good booklet. This gives your reseach an honorable background.
In my opinion, the reason for this is that the Quartile is divided depending on the impact factor (IF, CiteScore, SJR...) value, and the impact factor depends in its calculation on the number of citations not on the fact that the journal is a predatory or not. Perhaps these predatory journals (usually open accessed) have high citations that make it within the first quarters (Q1 or Q2) but over time may be excluded from databases such as Scopus and Simago. So the researcher should be careful in selecting the appropriate journal.
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In my opinion, the mix up is from the fact that some (if not many) of the predatory journals are using (duplicating) the names of credible journals. Hence they get credits when the credible journals (name sake) are ranked.
Q ranking is based on citation index, impact factor, quality of review and editorial. According to Jeferry Beal, the author and funder of 'List of predatory journals and Publishers', the predatory journals don't do peer review and they are not associated with any educational institution/professional bodies. So, Q- ranking of Predatory journal is questionable because they must have meet the strict requirements of the ranking body, E.g., Scimago. If a journal truly meets the Q-ranking criterial, it can't be predatory.
predatory journals usually are paid open acess journals that made them more citable and can get IF by time . Q classification of journals depends mainly on IF that is why you can find predatory journals in Q classified journals but usually they are rare
sorry, I want to ask, I found the journal in Scopus.com but I'm not find in Scimago. Are that the journal is predatory journals? Thank you.
Dede Mahdiyah Have you checked whether the journal has been discontinued on Scopus?
@ Marthie van Niekerk, thank you for your respond, I have checked that journal covered by Scopus 2010-2019. Thats mean still continued in Scopus, and for Steven Douedi thank you for your information.
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