Dear Mr. Beall,
I am one of the editorial board of Med J Indones. Our journal is now more than 20 years, but maybe not old enough for a journal. We used external reviewers, who are expert in the field to assess the content of the articles. We also have editors, who work hard to edit the articles. However, we have not succeeded yet to be listed in scopus and Pubmed. According to Scopus, our articles are weak. We are very sad to hear that.Therefore, in my opinion, a journal that is already listed in scopus must have a better quality than ours, apart from the fact that it charges the authors a lot.
If Scopus is really as you said:”they try to include more journals in their coverage”, why did Scopus refuse to list our journal? In my opinion, Scopus has a standard to be passed by the journals, and journals that are listed is Scopus have passed the standard.
The fact that the papers are easily accepted, it might be that the articles are of good quality.
Jeanne Adiwinata Pawitan
