Let me guess what the majority of the appeals are:
1. We really do peer-review…Never mind we just published a 3 paragraph article full of spelling errors and 2 plagiarized paragraphs from the National Enquirer. (Then cite an example of established journals that had bad articles that slip through)
2. The editorial board of famous and noted scholars…But they cannot be reached or verified.
3. I work really hard as the editor of 127 journals in disciplines I have no qualifications editing…In my apartment.
4. Our address is fake because we want privacy from people that question our business practices. Or, no, really, that mail box we rented really means we are from America.
5. All those claims of asking for money after we accepted the articles are all from people that are jealous
6. We spam everyone’s inbox because we are: Promoting scholars; we are a small journal; we don’t know any better. (We’ll stop…really…when the money runs out)
7. Hey, what about that Elsevier fake journal scandal that is the excuse of every vanity publisher?
8. You are anti-whatever ethnic group and a tool of the western academic press
