Thank you for your question. I submitted an article to them only last week and they responded today that they have finished blind review and all two reviewers found the articles too good not to need any revision. I think it is not a credible journal. I have notify them that I am withdrawing my article. In your case you can't do any other but to withdraw it but note, you have to serve them notice.

I experienced the same. Currently waiting for it to be published. Supposedly out in April 2014. When I checked my status, its still waiting for assignment. I have submitted since last year November. What a luck!!

It is a scam site. Google this: Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers

or go directly to http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

Resubmit elsewhere immediately.

Yes! It may be possible that it is a scam site. Although I have experienced such a delay but when I wrote to the editor handling the paper, I got responses and further correspondences with them, got my paper reviewed and published just recently. So I may suggest you correspond with them tightly and if no response, then it may really be a scam site. Hence withdraw and resubmit elsewhere.

Dear Iheanacho,

I have corresponded four times but no reply from the editor. The papers have been revised but not published yet.

Dear Bahram,

Probably it may be a delay from the reviewer(s). And you know, journal houses depends on their trusted reviewers outcome/suggestion. I experienced almost the same. May be you just have to be a bit more patient or if not resubmit somewhere else

I would read the following and contact the journal to say that you will be submitting your article to another publisher. I doubt you will get your publication fee returned, but you should be able to hold onto your intellectual property.

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/09/questionable-oa-publisher-launches-with-a-clever-website-and-52-new-journals/

Well done, Michelle.

Dear Bahram,

Did the publishing concern mention that your article would be published on April 31? This is the date you have mentioned in your question. They have not answered to your queries, and that has been bothering you!

But how can anything be done on April 31? April 31 is an impossible date!

Dear Hemanta, why is it impossible date? They told me that the publication date is April 31. That is all and they have not published it yet.

30 days hath September, April, .....

So it was their mistake. The problem is not 30 or 31, it is my unpublished paper.

Dears Ian and Hemanta, I corrected the date from 31 to 30, considering that others not to be deviated from the main issue and questions. Now, what would you do, if you were us?

Dear Bahram,

1) Not answering to your mails is certainly an irregular behavior, particularly because the April issue of the journal should have been published by now. Some people do not write back. Nothing can perhaps be done about that. Sometimes, journals are not published in time. You need to have patience. May be that after some time, it would be published.

2) Has the publisher asked for publication charges? If so, have you paid the charges already, possibly even before acceptance of the article? If yes, then there definitely is something wrong. Such payments are asked for only after acceptance of the paper. If they asked for publication charges as soon as you submitted the article, then it is a hopeless journal anyway. What about comments of referees?

3) If they have asked for publication charges, and if you have paid the amount already, and if they really mentioned the date of publication as April 31 as stated in the earlier version of your question, then it is sure that you have been cheated! There can not be an April 31 after all!

It is a predatory publisher. Be glad you didn't publish there:http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/09/questionable-oa-publisher-launches-with-a-clever-website-and-52-new-journals/

Thank you for your question. I submitted an article to them only last week and they responded today that they have finished blind review and all two reviewers found the articles too good not to need any revision. I think it is not a credible journal. I have notify them that I am withdrawing my article. In your case you can't do any other but to withdraw it but note, you have to serve them notice.

Hi, It is important to find out all about the journal where you intend to publish your paper. In your case, you could send the journal a withdrawal letter and send your article to a quality journal published by publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Wiley and more.

Hi, Bahram

If they didn't acknowledge your submission this mean the other processes of publication (receiving reviewers comment, correct your manuscript , sending the correction, receiving acceptance letter, Gallery proof, your response, APC payment, copy right form) were not done. Simply feel free to send your manuscript to other journal. no further communication is needed with this journal

I have the same situation, I submitted an article, pay the fee to the American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD) and they were supposed to be published on June 30, but they have not been published yet. I sent a lot e-mail  to ask for the publication update, but they never reply to my e-mails.

Please read this: https://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/09/questionable-oa-publisher-launches-with-a-clever-website-and-52-new-journals/

Hi,

If a journal's editors do not behave in a way they should,  the only suggested action  is to withdraw the article from this journal, and send it to another one. I wonder if there is a site where journals are graded for their attitude towards authors.

In the academic debate within the last few years special emphasis has been placed on the issue of how to choose relevant journal for submitting manuscript for publishing and to avoid so called "Potential, possible or probable predatory publishers and Open Access Journals" and "Kidnapped magazines". Such publishers and journals tend to publish as much as possible articles without peer-review in order to make more money abusing ethical principles for publishing integrity. Potential, possible or probable predatory publishers and journals can be found at the Bell's list (https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/).

The suggestion is to withdraw the paper and send it to another publication. Research institutes constitute a category different from a scientific journal with an impact factor, maybe this is the reason for the publication delay.

The question on whether to accept the already published papers in these hijacked journals during the tenure and promotion processes within universities is still under debate, since not all authors are informed about the existence and identification of these journals. Some authors suggest that already-published papers in the hijacked journals deserve a second chance, that is, these papers can be published in other legitimate journals and cannot be considered as plagiarized papers.

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is a predatory journal used very similar name to our Journal of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences i.e., JEAS and collect money from the authors and publish without any suitable review process.

If you want to submit agricultural or environment related manuscript "Journal of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences (JEAS) (NOT JAES) offers fast and free publication after rigorous peer review process. You can submit through online submission system http://agropub.com/Journals/index.php/JEAS/index

Regards

MIA Rehmani

Editor Journal of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences (JEAS)

[email protected]

Hi, 

I am in the same boat. I sent to American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD) my essay. They accepted it without any suggestion or advice so i decided to not publisher my work. Do you know any university journal to publish "Shakespeare and the coloniaism in The Tempest"? Thank you,  have a nice day.

This journal seems a big scam. I have gone through few evidences and people have reported this a fictitious journal.

Same happened to me with the International Journal for Philossophy and Theology

will an email to withdraw the paper suffice?

Also happened to me the same. They informed me that my article accepted without any correction which quite bizarre and they asked me to transfer money via money gram to someone call ASFIA NUZHAT in Bangladesh. Please be careful with that type of journals. AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE f o r P O L I C Y

D E V E L O P M E N T. 

Also the same happened to me  They informed me that my article accepted without any correction , and they asked me to transfer money via western union to someone call Nahid Akter in Bangladesh. Please be careful with that type of journals. AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE f o r P O L I C Y.they received the money but my articles are not published yet?!!!!

They are a predatory publishing house,

Let us learn from the experiences from my colleague Prof. Jeffrey Beall (University of Colorado at Denver) to be very careful in justifying an institute as predatory publisher or not.

Dear Colleagues,

Herewith, my tale of woe...

When I accepted the invitation to become Chief Editor of the Journal of Natural Sciences, I had no idea that I would have no control over anything to do with "my" Journal. Frustrated (and sometimes angry) colleagues e-mail to ask for assistance which I was never given the means to provide; even requests to unsubscribe from mailing lists go unheeded by ARIPD--as have my attempts to renounce this bogus editorship.

As others have noted, the entire ARIPD journal family was listed as “predatory” by Jeffrey Beall. However, Beall's entire blog mysteriously vanished just a month ago; you can read about it here:

http://retractionwatch.com/2017/01/17/bealls-list-potential-predatory-publishers-go-dark/

To answer the original question: If you have a paper awaiting publication in an ARIPD journal, send them an e-mail retracting the paper and then submit it somewhere else. If you have already published with ARIPD, use the DOI number they gave you to search for your paper. (Predatory journals often generate fake DOI numbers!) If you can't find your paper, I would consider it unpublished and would see nothing wrong in submitting it to another journal. Hope this helps!

the same has happened to me. I submitted them my paper and they accepted it without any changes. I sent 200$ to ASFIA NUZZAT in Bangladesh and did not get their acknowledgment after that when i searched I found this discussion. Please help me and guide me what should i do now?

Does not look like scam at first with impressive list of faux journals you find out about later and often too late.This is a fraud. Should be reported to police and any agency monitoring this type of scam. They accept your paper-ask for money-never respond to emails –and then, never publish your paper.

I sent MoneyGram and then stopped it next day before they could cash it. You can track the $$$$ you sent and then cancel this transaction ASAP as they do not cash the medium of exchange immediately.This may be the best alternative if you have been suckered in innocently by this non-innocent group of crooks!!!

FROM:JEFFREY BEALL....

Jeffrey Beall, the University of Colorado Denver librarian who has since 2008 chronicled “potential, possible, or probable” predatory publishers, has — at least for now — pulled the plug on his influential, and at times controversial, site.

The decision to take down the site — and Beall’s faculty page at the Auraria Library, where he remains a tenured associate professor — was his own, the University of Colorado Denver tells Retraction Watch.

The site, scholarlyoa.com, which just earlier this month included a list of more than 1,000 such publishers, now contains no information. The sudden change was noted Sunday on Twitter, where questions about the move — catalogued, along with some answers, by Emil Karlsson — swirled for two days. Beall’s faculty page was also taken down.

Some of the speculation surrounded Cabell’s, a publishing services company that had earlier announced it would house a publisher blacklist beginning sometime this year. Cabell’s, however, said it was not involved in the closure, and that it supported Beall. Cabell’s tweets also hinted at legal threats, which Beall has faced in the past.

Beall has not responded to a request for comment from Retraction Watch about why he decided to take down the site.

For more on Beall, see this mini-documentary from the CBC, which also includes segments on Retraction Watch and BMJ editor Fiona Godlee.

Update 1/17/17 6:05 p.m. Eastern: We’ve received a statement from the University of Colorado Denver:

Jeffrey Beall, associate professor and librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, has decided to no longer maintain or publish his research or blog on open access journals and “predatory publishers.” CU Denver supports and recognizes the important work Professor Beall has contributed to the field and to scholars worldwide.  CU Denver also understands and respects his decision to take down his website scholarlyoa.com at this time. Professor Beall remains on the faculty at the university and will be pursuing new areas of research.

Archived versions of Beall's list are available at different places. This site seems to be updating it, but I do not know who is responsible: https://beallslist.weebly.com/

I think the best approach is that you send an e-mail of WITHDRAWAL to them and proceed towards more professional journal. Once you serve withdrawal email, you have ethical and moral evidence to submit your paper to other journal. Good Luck !

I would also email them and withdraw the publication.

This seems to be a scam. See these articles:

http://dailynous.com/2016/10/04/publishing-scam-mimics-legitimate-journal/

https://thelearningprofessor.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/beware-of-the-journal-of-education-and-human-development/

I did some research on one of the ARIPD journals. Through a Google search, I could not find many of the authors of the papers listed in the current issue of the journal I was researching. Also, I emailed some of the editors listed there and was told that they were NOT editors of the journal.

I've received emails from the journal stating that the editor of the specific journal was Mamin Ullah, whereas the journal's page would list another person as the editor.