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Can anybody explain why someone who is editor of a reputable journal also act simultaneously as an editor for a potentially predatory journal?

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    Voting to close because Arun Bansil is likely the only person who can really answer this.
    – Stella Biderman
    Commented Feb 25, 2018 at 20:23
  • I’ve edited the question to focus on the central issue. Calling out an individual editor in such a manner is inflammatory.
    – aeismail
    Commented Feb 26, 2018 at 0:21

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We cannot know if this is really the case, but many disreputable publishers surreptitiously list well known scientists in their editorial boards, without asking their consent.

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The editor is the only person that knows for sure. Some possibilities (note I do not know if ikpress is a flaky publisher - I'm simply assuming it is):

  • He doesn't think ikpress is a flaky publisher. Compare Frontiers and MDPI, both publishers that were included on Beall's list that also had established academics defending them.
  • He isn't aware ikpress is a flaky publisher.
  • He doesn't care that ikpress is a flaky publisher (for whatever reason).
  • He doesn't know he's listed as an editor, or he might have tried to be "unlisted" but the publisher has been slow at removing him.
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  • Why you do not enter into the key issue? that is, what is reputation?
    – M. A. Grado-Caffaro
    Commented Feb 25, 2018 at 23:45
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    I don't see how reputation is relevant?
    – Allure
    Commented Feb 25, 2018 at 23:49

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