1. The question is, If a journal says there’s no APC, then it can’t be a predatory journal, right? The answer: no, not always. Many corrupt publishers waive fees at first because they quickly want to populate their journals with articles, articles that in turn will help attract other articles and their accompanying APCs.
2. I haven’t analyzed this publisher; it’s not an open-access publisher.
3. No, by definition, if you have to create a login and password and then sign in to access content, it’s not open access.
4. I don’t know. There are too many standalone journals like this one (megajournals, warehouse journals) emerging out of South Asia for me to analyze — around ten new ones a week. I am no longer able to keep up with them. I have started a backlog, which I’ll make available soon.
