Comment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by I. Mohacsi

Well it seems quite a few people in underdeveloped countries suffer from minority complex. Simply having a publisher registered in a developed country makes it a lot easier to handle cases like plagiarism (including name plagiarism), IP debates, suspicion of fraudulent data etc. Most of the OA journals in Nigeria or Panama accept anything for the right fee.
I knew a former (western) editor of an OA journal, who tried to keep his journal clean of junk: the result was that the publisher assigned a number of co-editors, who accepted everything to get their share of the publication fee (way of encouragement). The level sunk, so that “Hey, I found this piece of stone in the hills and had a look at it in the microscope”. Its simply about strict quality control and making editors non-interested in publishing everything. It would have been fine if they would introduce a new category instead of articles, namely “Lab notes”.