What is the real homepage URL of migration letters journal ?
its Scopus and impact factor
and publisher details
Dear Raana Afzal Stay away from this journal "Migration Letters". I see many issues:
-They were Scopus indexed https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21000195021 but are now discontinued and the Scopus content coverage stopped somewhere in 2022
-In my reply of Janauary 20th 2024 here https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_articles_published_in_MDPI_journals_be_excluded_in_the_assessment_of_the_scientific_production_Is_this_already_happening_in_your_country/39 I wrote: “…(if you click on Scopus content coverage then you can see that) in 2023 the number of accepted and published papers increased a staggering 15-fold compared to the years before 2023.” This is often a reason for discontinuation
-The publisher seems to be that no longer the reasonably trusted “Transnational Press London” https://www.tplondon.com/about-tpl/ According to https://migrationletters.com/index.php/ml/article/view/2914/2138 the new owner is “Emerging Research Library” and if you scroll down here https://migrationletters.com/index.php/ml/index the new ‘publisher’ is called “Migration Letters & The London Publishers”
-The suspicious increase is (in part) explained by publishing completely unrelated papers, like for example the following paper https://migrationletters.com/index.php/ml/article/view/3548 which has nothing whatsoever to do with the scope of the journal
I think that either the journal is hijacked or more likely it has been sold and is now managed by people with no other purpose than to collect money as much as possible by exploiting their (no longer existing) Scopus indexing as long as possible.
Personally I would avoid this one. And be sure they are not indexed in Scopus and they don't have an impact factor (since they are not indexed in Clarivate's indexes (ESCI, SCIE or SSCI) which can be checked here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home
Best regards.
Please stay away from this journal. The publisher has changed, and they still use the migration letters logo, which is from the previous publisher. Moreover, they accept articles without any revision process. Also, they mention they are in the Scopus and WOS; however, they were removed from the Scopus index in 2022. The journal became predatory, according to me, but it's not obvious yet. Plus, check their website. You will see every type of paper except issues related to migration. I hope this answer can help you.
Greetings
imran
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İmran Sarıhasan thank you for the reply, I feel you right I have similar observations
The journal was sold in mid-2023 to a somewhat predatory publishing group. Without knowing what was coming, I and a group of scholars published a special double-reviewed issue (January 2023), which is now in limbo. It is so sad to see one of the locomotive journals in the field turn into a fraudulent business in which our work has also faded...