Comment on Cosmic Journals by Roddy MacLeod

A typo in the publisher’s description (written by someone for whom English is probably a second or third language), some over-enthusiastic marketing fluff, and the fact that Cosmic is based in India (which has a rapidly expanding economy and research commmunity) – all true. And it may be starting as a bottom-tier publisher, but every publisher starts at the bottom. This blog seems to be developing an anti-Indian subcontinent bias. It may well be that many predatory publishers are based there, but this is not a reason to dismiss all new publishers from India. Many of your other posts are valuable because they point out true predatory characteristics, or plagiarism, etc. Is there such evidence in the case of Cosmic?