Hello All I am a PhD candidate in TEFL. I would like to know your views towards my academic concern. I have received a bunch of emails regarding the publication and joining the editorial and review boards of those journals. Most of these journals are Indian. Why Indian education system does not control such a violation? What is the future of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers? What do you think about their status in academic studies? Is there any academic value for publishing papers in those journals? some of these journals are indexed in some academic indexing databases such as Ebscohost, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Proquest, Index Copernicus, WorldCat,… I would like to know is indexing an acceptable way to check the quality of journal?