So a lack of western editors makes a journal suspect. I take this to mean that presence of western names on the editorial board provides a “more” legitimacy to the journals. I wonder why?
How many westerners would serve on the editorial boards of journals from lets say Peru, Bolivia, Thialand, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Morocco and many more.
If this is so, the journals from underdeveloped and developing countries with no western names are suspect, until an author makes a decision based on the quality of work, which the authors in many cases, especially first or second timers can not. If an author is incapable of judging the quality, and the journal has no western names where does it leave the journal? – with no submissions I guess.
I absolutely don’t agree with – “These publishers are not lying to attract articles from western authors. Their targets are dishonest or inexperienced authors”.
Do you think that some publisher would have said – there are many dishonest and inexperienced authors in the world so we will give a western address so that we can cheat them for money? Hardly any publisher would have started publishing to “target” dishonest and inexperienced authors for money. In my opinion publisher probably think that publishing journals are a way to earn money and they start journals. Then they give a “western address” to attract more papers in general, from everyone – not from westerners authors, not from inexperienced authors, not from dishonest authors, because believe it or not an address in US is undoubtedly more attractive than an address in Mongolia. Of course the “dishonest authors” may use these journal to publish papers, but won’t that make the author guilty and not the publisher?
