Roddy, thank you for the constructive criticism. I take your point. Here are the reasons I added Wyno Academic Journals to my list:
1. The publisher is contradictory about licensing. On the one hand it claims to assign the CC BY license to published articles, yet in another place it says, “By submitting your scholarly work to any of our journals and if it is approved and published, you have automatically and permanently transferred your copyrights to Wyno Academic Journals.” I think this shows serious confusion on the part of the publisher. This is highly contradictory.
2. The site in one place says it has five journals; in another place it claims eight journals. In other words, the website is not well maintained as the company grows.
3. The instruction for authors page appears to be copied almost word-for-word from another publisher. Also, I suspect that the photographs used on the website are stolen from from other websites without permission or licensing.
4. The conference announcements page only lists one conference, with no link, and it doesn’t say where it will be held.
5. The other conference page is “under construction.” This may indicate that the whole site was thrown together quickly.
6. The publisher states that a Dr. Victor Obaigbena is its “editor in chief,” yet a Google Scholar search on his name turns up nothing. (His Facebook page says he only has a bachelors degree).
7. I did research the name prior to making fun of it. I found nothing. (I originally assumed that it was the name of a Nigerian state). There’s another publisher from Nigeria called Wudpecker Journals; given the intense competition among predatory journals, having a funny name is one way to stand out. I believe that is the intention here.
Thanks,
Jeffrey
