Comment on Appeals by liza2408

What do you think about Common Ground publishers? They require payment, not necessarily attendance, at their conferences to get manuscripts published. I emailed to ask about submissions and was told I must register for a conference. I did this once. There were 40 people at the conference; I did not submit my paper. But I’ve read many negative blog posts (Chronicle of HE). All of their journals are edited by the same 2 people. I have a colleague who always publishes with this press — never had an article turned down. And she “presents” virtually at conferences held all around the world — Greece, Spain, Mauritius…