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There are some extremely serious problems that merit immediate listing on the Beall list. In fact, the papers that Sarah points to are only “in press”, and are listed as provisional papers subject to publication, but are not published. In fact, only ONE paper has been published in the latest issue:
http://smithandfranklin.com/journal-details/Volume-8/11/current-issue
However, it is listed as pages 2345-3456. If so, then where is the listing of all the other papers from page 1 to 2344?
In addition, if you click on the “Archive” button, a blank page appears, with the following message “Invalid request. The page you requested not found”. in other words, there is absolutely no way of seeing the thousands of pages likely published in the first 6 volumes. Which could also suggest that 6 previous volumes actually do not exist, and that the “publisher” started with volume 7 in 2014 to feign a long history…
In summary, the public can only observe, from an apparent 7 year history, only ONE paper. Not even the titles, authors’ names or abstracts are available. This is scandalous.
Setting aside the cultural issues, but which simply sounds like more foreigners taking advantage of the British system to launch businesses that are scammy to prop up a flailing economy, there is no information about publication costs, but because this does not seem like an open access publisher, there only appear to be subscription costs for the print copy.
The PDF of the only available paper does not open:
http://smithandfranklin.com/journal-details/Volume-8/11/current-issue
The XTML page is really messy and the text is squashed, making it barely legible.
The thanks to reviewers is pathetic (because actual reviewers are not credited, making the thanks useless):
http://smithandfranklin.com/journal-details/Volume-8/11/thanks-to-reviewers
The editor board reveals an Islamic coalition:
http://smithandfranklin.com/journal-details/Volume-8/11/editorial-board
To answer Beall’s question, I would only submit a false paper to this journal, and invite Bohannon to contribute.


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