I was invited by a newly launched open access publisher to participate in the editorial board and to submit an article which I did. Unexpectedly, I was requested to pay a large sum of money, after which I requested to withdraw my article and to withdraw from the editorial board. The only response I got was that my name is still in their editorial board web page. I was even more shocked to find that my article that I requested to withdraw is available in Google!!
Dear Najla
This is a predatory journal.
Send an email to the editor requesting to have your name removed from the editorial board's website and that you want your article withdrawn from the journal online. If the editor refuse to do so, find out if the journal/editor is affiliated with any organisation or published or university and send an email to a top official in the organisation informing them that the journal editor is involved in unethical practices. This will put the editor under pressure. Usually, its easy to tell who the journal/editor is affiliated with. Type the name of the editor on google to find the university/organisation the editor is affiliated with as indicated by the google search result, and report to that university or institution. But be careful because some predatory editors may use the name of real professors in top universities to trick authors. Send an email to Beall to include the journal in his list of predatory journals.
Hope this helps!
Regards
Peterson
Thank you Peterson for your valuable advice. I sent the editor an e mail and now awaiting for his response. I also contacted Google asking them to remove my paper from their website. Mr Beall has done a great job to reveal predatory publishers and journals. As researchers, we should do our share to increase awareness of these predatory publishers among students and young researchers.
Thanks again
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