I often come across so many paid journals indexed in SCOPUS, which are publishing unreliable/unprofessional research papers by taking money from scholars and academicians. Scopus database has been looked upon as a source of critical research from around the world. Such journals should not be a part of Scopus database. Isn't this time to address this issue?
Dear Aruditya Jasrotia ,
This is indeed a good and interesting question. There are attempts to address this issue. A recent and highly interesting paper:
Article Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences
identified several hundreds of (potentially) predatory journals in the Scopus list (according to the Beall's list) for the situation round 2017. A recent analysis using their identified journal titles:
Article When it comes to predatory journals, is Scopus doing a good ...
demonstrated that to date two third of these titles are discontinued. This raises several questions that are asked in the following discussion: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Scopus_doing_a_good_job_in_identifying_and_dealing_with_predatory_journals
Your point is one of the reasons why Scopus frequently add new discontinued titles (see enclosed file for the latest one). So, they address this issue. Whether it is good enough remains question indeed.
Best regards.
Dear Aruditya Jasrotia
You are right, because Scopus database contains some of the predatory journals that are listed in Beall's list.
Dear @Aruditya Jasrotia Yes, I do share your concern. Scopus should stop indexing such paid journals which are doing only business. In India, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences has already derecognized some of such journals from NAAS rating list for 2021.
Best wishes, AKC
Dear Aruditya Jasrotia
Scopus evaluation criteria and standards of journals are much lower than those of WOS.
this kind of issue has been found with many journals which infact challenging the research ethics and practices and of course, needs to be addressed asap
Many free to publish journals engage in problematic practices. I have seen opinion pieces cited multiple times. These typically reflect a view and selectively consider a restricted range of material. One on fake news had thousands of citations. What does this tell us - for many researchers all that matters is having your name in print.
in fact also so many journals listed abdc are charging high processing fee for the articles.... is this ethical....?????
Dear Arnab Gantait ,
Indeed, the presence of cloned or hijacked journals is a serious issue as well. Scopus is not only facing difficulties in ‘filtering out’ predatory journals (see my previous reply on April 17th) but has quite some difficulty in recognizing and acting adequately when it comes to hijacked journals as well. See for example:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Hijacked_journals_in_Scopus
https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_very_misleading_type_of_scam_Anyone_with_recent_examples
A number of recent questions/discussions demonstrate that this sad phenomenon is still around and makes still victims (since they are not that easy to detect if you are not that well aware of their existence):
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_status_of_Journal_of_Chengdu_University_of_Technology_Is_it_scopus
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_DOI_number_of_Turkish_Journal_of_Physiotherapy_and_Rehabilitation
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_seemingly_dubious_journals_indexed_in_Scopus
Best regards.
There so many paid journals indexed with SCOPUS as it has become business. It is also easy way to get papers published for promotions.
Journals indexed in Scopus are usually very expensive to publish in, however indexed jounals are periodically reviewed. Jounals that fail the meet or sustain the required benchmark may be removed from the listing. These reviews maybe done using artificial intelligence, hence they they are not infallible.
Scopus is an Indexing platform for highly ranked journals. It is mandatory for Ph.D. researchers to publish their work in any one of the Scopus indexed journals to submit their thesis. Academicians publish their research work in Scopus to enhance their performance appraisal. Publishing the research work in Scopus indexed journals is not an easy task. At the same time, it is also not tough. If proper guidelines are followed, one can publish the paper. A lot of paid journals are indexed with Scopus as it is one of the most reputed journals and is seen to publish only the best journals.
To know more about Scopus refer to: https://typeset.io/resources/everything-you-need-to-know-about-scopus/
Better not to submit articles to paid magazines. Then the problem is solved by itself. And there is no need to waste money on emptiness. In the world there are very good free prestigious magazines included in the Scopus database. In these paid journals, no one forces us to send an article, only we ourselves have to choose which journal to send the article to.
I think that the most important issue is to select from Scopus such journals that have a high level and well known publisher, like Springer, Elsevier or Taylor & Francis, Wiley or Sage. Usually this guaranties that the review process is enough tough, and this, of course, reflects in the quality of the articles. Many good journals are hybrid, and they allow to publish also without the payment.
Aruditya Jasrotia
Dear Professor Jasrotia,
Thank you for the interesting question.
I am not supporting SCOPUS, but I think its not harmful to charge some one for a part of the operational expenses for the publications. However, I agree that this point can be debated.
Since, I come from the world of Marketing, I have seen the growth and intrusion of Consumerism in everything, in almost everything. SCOPUS also could not keep her away from this. I am not too sure, but I think that the decision makers in that body would also like to get rich. And, that's how the problem commenced.
The actual problem is publication of unscientific writings. This is dangerous for the human civilization. When focus shifted from publication to earning money, it is then that the question of compromising with unscientific writings came forward.
Professor, I think this problem will go on if we do not shift the focus of the civilization. Its just not a question of publishing quality material, its a question of shift of focus.
Best regards,
Anamnitra.
There are two types of journal
1. reader has to pay for reading the articles, and author published their article free of charge
2. when author has to pay ,the article is free for readers .
Some one as to pay either reader or author
Quality of publication is some thing different .
It's egregious how many journals charge high publication fees, making it difficult for many authors to publish in their journals
Yes, it is correct, I agree with you. We need to exclude these logs from the Scopus database. One question is why are these journals included in the Scopus database? Whoever manages the Scopus database should develop compatibility and validity criteria. I need to re-update the Scopus database according to these criteria
I think there is nothing for free. Even the free journals, somebody is settling the bill to have the paper online and this is done by universities and some other institutions. I did understand when you say a useless paper. A researcher will not write, publish and pay for a useless paper. This RG platform gives us the opportunity to assist another person and not criticize. I think if you find it useless it is good to write an email to the author and advise him or her on how to improve next time. Life is a continuous process for all.
Whether paid or free journals indexed in scopus is inmaterial to me. The most important thing is the content or the quality of the reseach. Journals listed could be removed and journals not listed could also be listed sometime to come. What becomes of the papers in both journals as regards being listed or not? Whiever way or somehow, somebody is paying for every journal being it the authors, publishers, sponsors etc.
I know of some very reputed, well received, high indexed and listed in Web of Science which does not charge processing fees, but also some such journals which charge a standard processing fee from the submitters. There are no standard policies universally. It may depend on individual journals and editorial board decisions.
Actually, The actual problem is publication of unscientific writings. This is dangerous for the human civilization. When focus shifted from publication to earning money, it is then that the question of compromising with unscientific writings came forward.
Kindly visit...
https://www.researchgate.net/deref/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scimagojr.com%2Fjournalrank.php
It is just for a commercial idea, the sciences are as result only. Unfortunately, For scientific promotion, research published in Scopus does not go for an evaluation. it is accepted directly. As for those published other than Scopus, It goes for evaluation, resident from inside Iraq & two from outside Iraq & the researcher bears the evaluation costs.
Many paid journals indexed in SCOPUS as they are not supported financially or they want funds to run it.
What you say is true but if you are a good researcher you can make the difference by accepting what is good and refusing what is not scientific.
We have to understand that science in the 21st century is a business. I do advocate the fact that money (in terms of making profits) is essential too. People are driven by money and the people who lead, are the ones who look for the opportunity to make the best out of everything.
Paid publications are not that much of an issue. The issue is getting the right people to lead the scientific community and this is where we lack. We need top scientific bodies to regulate, oversee, supervise the entire scientific publishing community.
Everything has its place. So do the SCI-indexed journals.
Thank you.
Because Scopus is currently the leading indexing database preferred by a good number of universities, there is a belief that only Scopus indexed journals are reputable. ... Also, other multidisciplinary databases such as Web of Science or ProQuest Central are similarly rigorous in their selection criteria.
The ability to search both forward and backward from a particular citation would be very helpful to the researcher. ... It provides citation data for all 25,000+ active titles such as journals, conference proceedings and books in Scopus and provides an alternative to the impact factor.
Scopus is the best index. In my point of view the Scopus H-index and WOS H-Index are most essential indicators for the academic researchers.
Yes you are right, magazines included in Scopus should be prestigious. Sort them by quality
I think that this is an excellent question to take into account, especially when it comes to achieving a publication of great impact and that is not paid, most of the journals that are not paid have few indexes and indexed databases, which that contributes to the articles not having the necessary diffusion and the necessary scope cannot be achieved. Excellent question. Greetings
Such a kind is possible in any industry. Therefore, this will depend on the academicians themselves. You can choose a high-quality journal with no feed or choose an easy publishing journal with high fees if you are not aware about academic reputation.
I fully agree and support the opinion of my distinguished colleague Davron Aslonqulovich Juraev. Thanks!
The choice of journals to submit our work is heavily driven by motivations linked with promotion criteria. As far as I am aware, almost every department has a list of "ranked" outlets. I think over there we need to search for the root of this issue. If the majority of these journals are accepted for a department as evidence for promotion, then this will make academics submit their research in these journals.
All researchers hope to have their manuscripts published without having to pay any fees but, as pointed by Dr. Faraed Salman , it is generally agreed that "Scopus is the best index".
Similarly, I find the explanation provided by Panagiotis Karavitis quite logical. In many universities now, they apply certain criteria for promotion in which Scopus is given first preference!
This is a very topical issue. I fully agree and support the opinion of my distinguished colleague Davron Aslonqulovich Juraev. Thanks!
Yes you are right. It is necessary to exclude these journals from the list of the Scopus database.
What makes you think that academia is different from the world we live in? You might want to take a look at an article titled Academic ‘Toxicity’ in the Era of Neoliberalism. Here is the link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3901887
Isn't it the same for SSCI. I don't think it is only for SCOPUS. I can write here many journals in SSCI that have APC approximately 3000 USD.
Dear Aruditya Jasrotia ,
In the original question you addressed the issue of predatory journals indexed in Scopus, see my reply of April 17th, 2021. And the issue of hijacked journals indexed in Scopus, see my reply of July 27th, 2021. The discussion seems to turn into the issue of open access journals in general (were in most cases you as an author need to pay).
First of all, (I checked this a while ago) if you go to https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri and click on “Journals” you see it renders more than 40000 results, click on “Display only Open Access journals” then you see it renders more than 5000 journals. In other words, currently the majority of journals is still free of charge. Since most subscription-based journals do not charge APC.
However, more and more of these journals are (turned into) hybrid journals, they offer open access (most of the times for a pretty hefty fee) but you can choose to decline this option. There are two reasons for this:
-More and more countries (like my own country the Netherlands) demands that you publish ‘tax-paid’ research in such a way that it is freely accessible (most of the times this means open access), see for example https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en_GB/openaccess-eng.html
-There are more and more journals (like Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, etc.) and publishers (like PLoS, MDPI, Hindawi, Frontiers, etc.) fully dedicated to open access publishing
In a number of countries (like the Netherlands, Germany etc.) the ‘logic’ behind all this is that instead of paying huge amounts of money by universities and research institutes to subscription and license fees there is a certain amount of the research money allocated for covering the publishing costs.
This is politically driven, as said tax paid money has been spent on research so the general public should be able to read this for free, but of course this whole idea causes problems for researchers (and countries) who do not have the resources for this kind of construction.
Best regards.
PS. By the way fortunately there are (still) open access journals that are free of cost, see for example: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Scientific_Journals_with_Open_Access_and_no_APC_free_charges_for_authors
I think u have to pay for any thing nowadays except the air that is a great corruption
Best way to avoid publishing paper in paid journal whatever the indexing agency like Scopus. Prevention is better option to down the market of paid journal
Most of the scientific research become business that is great corruption
It's a expanding business day by day ,also big corruption is going on .
Because, it is one of the most reputed journals and is seen to publish only the best journals. Some of the fast responding Scopus journal are listed here, https://researchbrains.com/fast-responding-scopus-indexed-journals/
Many paid journals are indexed in SCOPUS as they are not supported financially or they want funds to run it The more widely a journal is indexed, the more likely it is to be available in library databases, this means that published articles have a higher chance of being found, read, and, hopefully, cited
Better to avoid submission of your manuscript in paid journal , Automatically problem will be solved out. There are so many Scopus indexed free journals
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