Thanks Jeff. I am aware of that and daily receive many spam invitations to submit or attend meetings. One way of evaluation could be to go after the authors, directly asking for info on processing times, how they would grade the review process, have them evaluate it in a simplified way, and ask around the fees (if they expected fees and when these occured). also, how many times (if any) their study had been rejected elsewhere before (in non-OA or OA journals) and if authors would send their best work to the same journal. you could make this into a one page standard form. you would need to find a way not to scare off authors in order to get a decent response rate. you can even turn this into a proper study, ie randomized selection of OA J, articles etc. then revisit the field in NATURE comments…
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