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http://ijrmas.org/
International Journal of Research in Medical &Applied Sciences

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Right, ‘s Graveland is correct. Literally “The Earl’s Land”, nothing to do with graves.

I’ve checked out the “IJAS multi-disciplinary conferences” advertised on that site, and wow, they have no theme, nothing specific to bait proper researchers in terms of something to learn. Their only selling point is the bus tours, and the “conference” pages actually read like a tourist brochure! These are actually mono-disciplinary meetings: the topic is sightseeing.

When you google the editorial board members “Kaspar Hazenoot” “Wichard Arets” “Kaitlin van Eert”, the only hit is the Amoeba journal home page. All names are made up.

Hi Jeff, few years back (June 2013), Edy raised a low-Q flag on this publisher (which I had to agree) but was not considered as it was not an OA at that time.

Does this attempt means that it’s now appropriate to put them under a microscope?

Thank you for alerting me to this journal. I’ve analyzed it and added it to my list.

IGI Global is chiefly a subscription publisher (in the context of its journals), and as such it’s out of scope for my lists. Still, it’s always appropriate to think critically about any publisher, especially IGI Global. I think many find it bottom tier.

It seems that the hijackers were not aware that Amoeba has published papers of a Nobel laureate. The Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen, born in April 1907, is one of the former members of NJN. Niko Tinbergen published in 1923, at the age of 16, his first papers in Amoeba. Source
http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn6/tinbergen (‘Als lid van de pas opgerichte Nederlandsche Jeugdbond voor Natuurstudie (NJN) publiceerde hij in 1923 in Amoeba, het bondstijdschrift, zijn eerste artikelen.’).

I agree with you. It is a very fine journal. Good luck with your submission.

It is perhaps a coincidence that the domains “symbiosisgroup.net”, “symbiosisgroup.us” and “symbiosisgroup.info” are all registered with the same name and address used to register the MedCrave Online stable of mockademic journals.

There’s a “Professor Joseph Bonnici” whose name is linked with what seems to be a different National / International / Regional Academic Disciplines conference every week. I am surprised he has any time or energy left to devote to the neglect of his duties.

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Good morning Sir, I am looking for top Agricultural Engineering Journal, I would like to published my Research Thesis, M.Tech in field of Farm Machinery and Power but I don’t which journal it better and how can selected it please let me know about the classification and standardization of International journal and which one related to FMP

Dear Jeffrey Beall, I am confused with Asian Profile journal (http://www.asianresearchservice.com/Asianprofile.htm). How can I check, if it is a predatory one?

Regards,
Dilruba

I am sorry; I limit my work to identifying questionable publishers and don't publish any lists of good journals. I recommend that you ask senior colleagues at your university, and also contact your academic librarians. There are also some search engines that specialize in finding good journals, which I described in a <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/07/01/need-help-finding-a-good-journal-for-your-next-paper-try-these-resources/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blog post</a>. Good luck.

Whats IS Factor of this journal?

Hi, Dilruba, I generally limit my work to open-access journals. I think this journal is not open-access. I have not evaluated it. I recommend that you speak with a librarian at your university about this journal. Good luck! Jeffrey Beall