Everyday I receive several emails from different journals claiming high impact factor and asking me to submit my work to them. It is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish the good ones from the fake ones. So I think it will be useful to put a list of them here and see if together we can distinguish them.
The e-mail from this journal makes it look suspicious: International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR). They claim to be peer review and classify 9th on the AQCJ (African Quality Center for Journals).
Another suspicious e-mail. This journal appears in at least one list of predatory journals. Journal of Molecular Imaging & Dynamics.
Just would like to note that while the original Beall's list web site (scholarly-oa.com) does not host the list anymore,. There are at least two web sites claims to build on and expand the Beall's list :
http://beallslist.weebly.com/
https://predatoryjournals.com/
See also the related question
https://www.researchgate.net/post/A_new_site_listing_predatory_journals_What_do_you_think_of_it
It was already suggested that it could be a good idea to check whether the journal is indexed by major databases like Scopus and Web of Science.
Also, it could make sense to check whether the journal is indexed by more specialized databases, e.g. MathSciNet (ams.org/mathscinet) for mathematics and INSPIRE (http://inspirehep.net/) in high energy physics.
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