I wrote you in April and explained the reasons for inclusion:
1. The editorial board doesn’t list affiliations, and it’s not very impressive.
2. Portions of the author instructions are lifted from Springer without attribution.
3. The journal states that the mean time to an accept/reject first decision is 14 days; this is confirmed by some acceptance statements: “Received February 29, 2012 Accepted April 13, 2012.”
4. GESDAV tries to position itself as a non-profit organization but is really for profit. Also, it’s unclear if the journal is even really an initiative of GESDAV; it may be an individual endeavor and the individual is just using the GESDAV affiliation to make the journal look more authentic.
5. The editor of this journal is also the editor in chief of the Journal of Experimental and Integrative Medicine, a journal which seems to have died, and which is also run by GESDAV.
6. The journal’s website doesn’t say anything about digital preservation, retraction policy, and the like.
7. There are numerous instances of borderline plagiarism, as if the authors are making sufficient thesaural substitutions just to keep the detection software happy.
I haven’t really seen any improvement in the journal, just the making of excuses.
