Almost all of us have been receiving emails from editors or publishers of unknown or paid journals (with ISBN, and sometime with false Impact Factor) ready to publish our work with their journals. They even state that “your research article after peer review will be published within 15 days in so and so Volume-Issue-Year”.

Many of us know that more than 95% of them are publishing for the sake of money (through sale proceeds and/or publication fees) without any real disclosures about their peer review system (only god knows who is/are reviewing those articles). The articles are often straightway published within two/three days without any editing or proofreading.

However, some of the researcher, mostly research students or researchers at their early stage of career do prefer to publish their work with such journals knowingly or unknowingly either for getting quick (still confirmed) research degrees or for the sake of promotion.

But even if their quality of research output improves in future… the substandard research articles that they have already published at early stage of career still remains there, sometimes listed online with or without indexed and become headache for them. Therefore, my questions are…

(1)   What are the risks of publishing such substandard quality research papers?

(2)   Is there any process to withdraw own publication of substandard quality? Do the author(s) has to pay for that?

(3) If any research work done by graduate students are focused at micro level reporting and not qualify to publish in good journals then... is it meaningful to publish in substandard quality journals or better not to publish that work?

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