Comment on Introducing: The World Academic Publishing by Chris Fellows

At least one of their journals appears to be making a serious effort at peer review – I was contacted by “Advanced Shipping and Ocean Engineering” to review a manuscript where my expertise was actually relevant, recommended rejection, and a few months later was asked to review a revision of the manuscript. In light of billwilliams’ comment above that they have changed their copyright position, they may possibly now fall into the ‘amateur hour’ rather than ‘predatory’ category.