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Thanks. No, sorry. I limit my work to identifying low-quality and predatory publishers and journals.

Prof, Bell, please what about this journal. is it a strong journal? Journal of Teacher Education: jte@msu.edu

What is unethical about a “desk rejection” by the editor? As a reviewer, I don’t want to waste my time reading papers that have such obvious ‘fatal’ flaws that anyone can spot them within ten seconds. Likewise as an author, I don’t want to wait two months for a set of reviews just to be told that my paper doesn’t fit the scope of the journal. In my field (management), I believe the rate of desk rejections by top journals is increasing, and I think that is a good development. Of course some editors can abuse their power by desk-rejecting their rivals or enemies, but the author can then resubmit to another journal without wasting much time (provided that the rejection by the editor occurs quickly after submission).

Is “Asia Pacific Management Review” a good journal?? It’s websit: http://apmr.management.ncku.edu.tw/
Thank you!

I can’t find it. Can you send a link instead of an email address?

It is not a predatory journal.

Scientia Ricerca is Lingua Latina Canina but not that dumb a name. I highly respect this blog and strongly recommend it to my students (I run a major PhD programme at a top UK university) so please do avoid such cheap shots and stay classy, Jeffrey.

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“Flavour” and other “our” forms are widely used in Canada.

By that argument, they should not have used OAE, either, as it confuses with the much more widely accepted acronym for “Old Antarctic Explorer”

http://www.acronymfinder.com/OAE.html

Dear Mr Beall,

This one appears quite dodgy as well. Did not find it on your list, though.

http://www.ikpresse.com/home

Some of the “journals” are actually hilarious. Like:

Journal of Unexplored Cancer Data

How can you publish anything in this journal, because after publishing it is no more unexplored.

Neurology and Nephrology Open Access

For neurologists with a keen interestt in kidneys. Certainly not a no brainer for nephrologists.

Open Access Journal of Opthalmology

It is REALLY difficult to get that one spelled correctly. By no means the only spelling error of MedLoose.

Artery Plus

Waiting eagerly for Vein Minus.

On a more sombre note, OAE claims.

“OAE has successfully launched four journals in the field of biomedicine with cooperation of the Asia-Pacific Association of Medical Research (APAMR), the Chinese Medical Association, the Italian Federation of Aesthetic Medicine, and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). ”

EORTC is a large organization – the National Cancer Institute equivalent in Europe – so this is a bold claim.

On the EORTC site I can find nothing about any collaboration with OAE. I Thus doubt tis claim.

However, both of their cancer journals have an editor in Chief and an editorial board in place, which seem credible with full names an emails. Neither of these journals claims an EORTC affiliation though.

Indeed; it was difficult to think of an easy one here! I should have looked up Stan Carey’s blog, lots of better examples there!

“The publisher claims it’s based in Troy, Michigan. … It smells like OMICS International, …”

So now we have a “Trojan publisher”.

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<i>with cooperation of</i> "Cooperation" covers a multitude of sins. With a stretch, it could include "replying to an email". It need not imply that these august organisations ever <b>collaborated</b> with the spammers.

I don’t know if it’s legitimate or not, but I can tell you that I do not want to add its publisher, the International Center for Scientific Research and Studies (ICSRS), to my list at this time.

I agree. I have this journal’s publisher, Research India Publications (RIP), included on my list (as an exception, because it’s a subscription publisher that behaves like a predatory publisher).

I have this journal's publisher, Leena & Luna International, included on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank">here</a>. My advice would be to not send them any papers.

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