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Invitation to a new conference: possible scam? [duplicate]
I am a researcher on physics and I was invited to a conference as a speaker at the 1st European Conference on Engineering & Technology ECETECH 2022. The full expenses (round trip flight tickets, ...
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"Quarterly Franklin Membership" means? [duplicate]
Recently I received an email from London Journals Press.
Dear Dr. Po-Wei Huang,
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Taking note of your research interest that matches with our journal scope, I would like to welcome you to associate ...
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What is the difference between all of these impact factors? [duplicate]
While searching a Thomson indexed journal to submit to, I found this one :
http://www.bepls.com
And they are showing different impact factors :
Impact Factor: 0.971 [UIF, Germany]
Global Impact ...
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is David Publishing Company legit? [duplicate]
I have an abstract presented by my colleague at a local conference. I got an email from a company called David Publishing Company claiming that they are interested in publishing our paper in the ...
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If a journal requires "Article Processing fee" does that make it a predatory journal? [duplicate]
If a journal take article processing fee then does that mean the journal is predatory? or there are some other criteria to tell a journal as predatory?
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Is "Advances in Engineering" a predatory platform? [duplicate]
I have received an e-mail from "Advances in Engineering". Is it a predatory-platform? Is it reputable?
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Dear Dr. XYZ,
We are pleased to inform you that Advances in Engineering selection ...
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Is "Cambridge Scholars" a fake publisher? [duplicate]
Considering the fact that I'm a graduate student with a couple of publications, here is the email I've recently received from this website (I found it in my spam folder):
Dear Dr. Robotocist, --------...
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Does publishing in non-prestigious journal damage your portfolio [duplicate]
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A year ago, I had a desire to write my first article for a journal. Since I hadn't had much experience in scientific writing, I gave up writing it. However, I've recently found this work and ...
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Is this academic organization a predatory one? [duplicate]
I was reading about this organization that is called SAI (https://thesai.org/) which has a number of journals and conferences indexed in Scopus, but I am a little bit dubious if it should be ...
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David Publishing Company (DPC) legit or not? [duplicate]
Recently I completed my master's program in ICT from Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan.
I have received an email from David Publishing Company (DPC).
They wanted to publish my paper in their journal.
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Is "Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal" reputable? [duplicate]
I ask this question because there are at least several journals with similar titles, but I thought about submitting to this one in particular http://www.pamath.org/index. Is this a reputable math ...
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Reference citing guidelines [duplicate]
I recently became the Editor-in-Chief for Cardiac Electrophysiology for an online access publishing company. I wanted to jump in by writing a general article to get my feet wet in their system. My ...
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How to find a reputable open access journal? [duplicate]
I found few open access journals that show quite good quality articles. However, I have been advised that open access journals may be predatory. When I searched websites, I was surprised that all ...
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If a journal is not listed in Journal Citation Reports, is that a bad sign with respect to its quality and/or legitimacy? [duplicate]
The journal Advances in Applied Energy is not listed in Journal Citation Reports (at least as far as I can tell), although its sister journal, Applied Energy, is.
Should I be concerned about the ...
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How to tell if a Journal is peer reviewed and/or legitimate? [duplicate]
I am working through my dissertation and was just wondering, how would you know if a journal is peer reviewed or actually legitimate? If a journal etc has an ISSN number on them, does this mean the ...
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