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Dear Dr. Beall first of all thank you for your search and information,I want to sent my paper for a conference organized by common ground publishing and I would appreciate if you let me know is their conference authentic or fake?

Hy Jeffrey,

Kindly check this journal. It seems very suspicious.

‘Journal of Governance and Regulation’

http://www.virtusinterpress.org/Paper-submission-model.html

http://www.virtusinterpress.org/-Journal-of-Governance-and-.html

They state that their review process takes 7-15 days , and once the paper is accepted, the author need PAY 340Euros “acceptance fee”.
What surprises even more is , if the author want the paper to be published quickly , s/he can make known that wish and there is an additional fee for that

It meets the criteria. For example, it advertises an impact factor it does not have.

Yes. I have this publisher included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

I agree.
They also (apparently falsely) say, “Authors should note that all papers published in the journal will be in open access at the web-site of the publisher for at least three years to increase the paper citing.”
I have added this publisher to my list.

I don’t keep lists of good or bad journals.
I don’t have enough information to evaluate Common Ground conferences.
I do receive many inquiries about Common Ground. What is your field of study? Why don’t you find a non-profit scholarly society in your discipline and attend a conference it organizes?

Yes, actually, I already have examined this publisher. I have it included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I recommend that you not submit any work to this publisher's many journals. Good luck.

Dear Dr. Beall,

Could you please check the Journal of Medical Devices (http://journaltool.asme.org/Content/JournalDescriptions.cfm?journalId=22&Journal=MED) and the ASME as a publisher (http://medicaldevices.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/journal.aspx) as they are processing chrges for the publication and I can’t find the information on the peer-review system. Thank you in advance!

Thank you very much for your response,My discipline is environment and bioscience,and I appreciate if you could say me how i can get information about non profit society ?

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is not on my list. The Journal of Medical Devices is not a predatory journal.

How about the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS)?

Actually, I see the Journal of International Management Studies on the list but not the other two, the Journal of Human Resource and Adult Learning and the Journal of Global Business Management. Working from memory, and looking back three years, I think the reason only one of the three is on the list is that it was the only one that had any published content at the time I did my analysis. I will now analyze the other two. Thank you.

The conference itself is out of scope for my work, and I haven’t analyzed it.
Still, having said that, I see lots of warning signs with this conference, and it appears to be organized by some who wish to cash in on the easy money that conferences and academic journals can bring. I would recommend that you find a scholarly society in your field, preferably a non-profit one, and attend its conferences. If you pay for and attend this conference, you may be taking a risk.

Please go through this website

http://www.jiaats.com

A strong warning should be issued to all the contributors/authors as it is a complete fake website with all the journals having fake ISSN and authors are contributing without even bothering about the credentials of the publisher.

I agree. This is a dangerous, predatory publisher. The name of the publisher is Journal of The International Association of Advanced Technology and Science (JIAATS) (this appears to be the title of a single journal, but it is the name of the publisher). Thank you.

Please see this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_learned_societies" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">list of learned societies</a>.

herr doktor bimler……OK, I understand now that Neuroskeptic was not referencing Cureus. Clearly I was in a defensive frame of mind when writing! :-)

By the way, I liken Cureus a lot to a peer reveiwed WordPress, where intelligent communication can be conducted, adjudicated and archived. This reference is perhaps understandable to this current WordPress audience.

Thank you for asking. When I navigated to that page on the day of commenting, it had a red bar the same color than in the “send comment” button just below author names with a white text “This article has an expression of concern”. However, I do not get it today.