Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

1. The publisher harvests email addresses and then sends personalized spam, praising a researcher’s earlier work and inviting another, without mentioning the fees and with the use of fake names (Ms. Ivy)
2. Many of the journal titles are unidiomatic. Examples include Global Perspective on Engineering Management (should be Perspectives) and Review of Psychology Frontier (which makes no sense in English). If the publisher chooses to publish in English, then it needs to hire consultants to make its webpage have correct usage. Otherwise, this sends a signal to potential contributors that the site does not care about quality and may accept all papers that are submitted
3. Presence of plagiarism in the articles (email me for details).
4. The article template seems to be largely copied from a template available on the web called, “Word template for the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Research in Engineering & Technology (ICARET-12)”. Also, it appears that the publisher is using the “IEEE Paper Template in A4 (V1).” Did the publisher get permission to copy and use these templates?
5. It is unclear what the difference in the roles between the editorial board members and the reviewers is.
6. What is the publisher’s relationship with American V-King Scientific Publishing?
7. Unclear who owns the operation or whether it’s for profit or not.