Dear Sabah,

Please take a look at the thread initiated by Miranda Yeoh and her porject as well

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_would_happen_if_WE_ALL_consult_Bealls_list_of_predatory_journals_and_refrain_from_the_possible_probable_or_potential_predators

Thanks dear Beata.. It is our combined project. Miranda is our chief in this project.

Dear Sir (Singh), Thanks for all the above attached links. 

Dear Sabah Zaib,

Instead of thinking about predatory or fake journals, better concentrate on standard journals of standard groups of Journals like:

1. Science direct

2. Taylor & francis

3. Wiley online

4. Springer

5. Sage

6. Inderscience

7. EMERALD

8. Cambridge

9. Oxford

10. Etc. ....!

Dear Sir Subhash,

I'm from Pakistan. Here majority of scholars are not experts in research skills. We also face great difficulties in conducting research.To start publication from Taylor & Francis, Cambridge or Oxford etc. is not possible for us. Therefore, the only formula for us is to keep ourselves away from predatory journals.

Regards,

Sabah, I wrote an article on predatory journal you might want to look over. 

May I also suggest, based on what you last wrote, that if you truly want to pursue a scientific career, particularly a research career, that you might want to emigrate to Europe, North America, or Australia? Otherwise, your potential will go unfulfilled. Just a well meant suggestion.

Dear Sabah,

In addition to the resources that the colleagues mentioned, communication between researchers is very important. For us that we are not in Europe or USA publishing presents particular difficulties and we have to rely mainly open acess publications. In Brazil we have an official classification of journals made by an organ linked to the Ministry of Education, but an important resource has been put together groups of researchers to interact in social networks where we do periodic reviews of how the response time and the evaluation process. So we generate a list of positive editors and a negative list. Although informal, these groups have been very useful to seek information on local periodicals and Latin Americans.

 Look at the other side- It is all about money. These journals like nature and development, and JBC, PNAS and many more are earning hell of money and have monopoly since a century and these belong to western world. Their gridlock is being broken by so called predatory journals. Western world had resources since long time. Poor countries or less fortunate labs in western world were left behind from publishing small amount of data. Mostly so called predatory journals- there is nothing predatory, no one is putting gun on your neck for publication. These journals are mainly based in Egypt, India. They want to earn money too. Since those guys have now have knowhow how to run business- Bigger journals are jealous of it. When a scientist publish a paper in any journal, he can pass the exam of reviewers but still he is fully responsible for the data he reports in any of so called predatory journal or traditional journals. i will not mind publishing in predatory journals. They have less bullshit reviewers. their view is positive. They do not have negative thinking to reject the paper because they focus on science. I have published 2 papers in OMICs journal. I am proud of it. If anyone has problem, he has the right to criticize my work.

It is the content of the paper that counts, not the name of the journal....

If readers cannot judge the content of papers properly, why do they read? 

Junega, you have no idea of what you are talking about. Many if not most of the predatory journals have no reputable peer review, some have none whatsoever. I submitted a mss to one; its contents were total gibberish; it made no sense, since it was a chimera made up of sections of 3 other, unrelated, mss. It was immediately accepted. Another researcher submitted a mss which consisted solely of a five page repetition of one sentence and it, too, was accepted.

Also: beware. Some people have been fired from their positions for publishing in these fraudulent journals.

You might want to take a look at the paper I published on the subject. You can access it through Researchgate.

Dear @Sabah, my friend @Michael has a fine thread. The positive list of OA journals was brought there, while I was commenting on The Weaknesses of Journal Whitelists!

Dear @Eraldo had a fine thread with many resources also.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_we_collect_information_on_non-predatory_professional_Open_Access_publishers_independent_OA_journals

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_open-access_journals_provide_a_well_enough_international_recognition_for_researchers

The fake publishers or journals generally have the following features:

1. They publish the papers without any revision or peer-revision process.

2. They have weak websites with a simple submission format.

3. Generally, they have no specific scientific scope and work in a multidisciplinary way

4.The period between submitting and publishing the papers is very short.

5. They never mention the requested fee in order to publish the papers on their sites, and notify the authors privately in a separate letter.

6. Commonly, they publish repetitive papers or even papers from other journals.

7. They have a broad advertisement plan in the form of spam E-mails.

8. The names of such journals commonly contain grand adjectives e.g. world, international and global (Butler 2013).

Source:

Esfe, M. H., Wongwises, S., Asadi, A., & Akbari, M. (2015). Fake journals: Their features and some viable ways to distinguishing them. Science and engineering ethics, 21(4), 821-824.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-014-9595-z?view=classic

Dear Professor Ahmadi-Nedushan,

Can you please list some of the name of such Journals in the area of Civil Engineering?

Thanks

Dear @Sabah, this is an interesting COPE case for your research question!

Withdrawal of accepted manuscript from predatory journal!

"Our journal has been contacted by an author who would like to submit a review article. The author responded to a request for an invited review from a predatory journal without realizing it was a predatory journal. The author submitted the article only to receive an unexpected invoice and clear evidence of no peer review. The author investigated the journal and then realized the predatory nature of this journal.

To remove the submitted manuscript from this journal, the author communicated via email, phone and certified letter, and also contacted members of the editorial board, but has received no return communication. Periodically, the manuscript has disappeared from the journal’s website, only to reappear in a later issue. The author never signed a copyright agreement and never paid the journal to publish the article. The author would like to have the manuscript published in a legitimate journal but does not wish to be guilty of duplicate publication..."

http://publicationethics.org/case/withdrawal-accepted-manuscript-predatory-journal?utm_source=All+Subscribers&utm_campaign=55f21b4091-COPE_Digest_January_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6eb8aec9d3-55f21b4091-263913989

Dear Colleagues,

Good and important question, I strongly recommend to depend on trusted academic search engine to find reputable, positive, and indexed journal and at the same time leaving the so called predatory journals! forever, one of the best search engine is indicated in the following link:

www.scimagojr.com

Regards,

Emad

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