Hi,
Thank you for the article, it was very useful. I thought I’ll answer their e-mail, to express my thoughts on their hilarious policy. Guees what… I got an answer from some Emma (? no family name…) Here it is, I don’t know, what to believe…
“Thank you for giving us the detailed thinking of our journal. I’m also very sorry to read the negative text on those websites. This is not the first time we know the links and we have to explain it again and again for our authors. As you can find out that, the texts just doubted why should we charge and whether our papers are peer reviewed. You know, as an academic journal, its readers are very limited. The subscription fee cannot afford its running. At the same time, there is no sponsor or any advertisement income for our journal. So we have to charge some fees to run our journal. Yes, the scientific knowledge is not a commodity, but the premise is that we have to maintain our livelihood. Please understand us and support us.
You can find the list of our editorial board members and reviewers on our website. All the papers submitted to our journal will undergo peer reviewing process. We have many reviewers and staff around the world, then we can finish the reviewing process more quickly than other journals. In other words, our company has been founded mostly 10 years and has published more than 40 journals, you can find them in some famous databases. If there is any problem, are all the authors cheated by us? Of course not. If you find more information, you can know that many academic journals in USA charge submission fee such as Chicago Journals. Maybe because our company is not so famous that some scholars cannot accept it.
For another, We have been contacting with ISI and SCOPUS for inclusion and have sent the copies of our journal to them, but there is no reply until now. Even though the Sociology Study has not been collected and indexed by the ISI and SCOPUS right now, but it does not mean it cannot be collected and indexed in the future. Anyway, it is also retrieved by some other famous databases such as EBSCO, CSA, Proquest, Ulrich, Summon and so on. And we will try our best to develop this journal better so as to be accepted by ISI, SCOPUS.
We will very appreciate if you could understand and support our work.
Sincerely,
Emma”
