Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Jeffrey Beall

Hi, Sharon, Yes, I consider all of Synergy’s journals to be questionable, and I recommend against responding affirmatively to their spam. I see a lot of strange aspects to this publisher, despite its jazzy website. It has a link to CCC on its pages, but it is unclear why this is there — all the articles I saw have a CC BY license. Perhaps it is because some articles will be toll access despite all authors having to pay a fee. It claims to have an office in the UK, but the office is really a dwelling. The articles show little or no copyediting, and many of them are very short. Some of the articles look questionable, like this one: “Asperger’s Syndrome and Skin Vibration Sessions: A Theoretical Model” Is this publisher a place to submit strange articles that were rejected elsewhere? It appears so.