Herald Scholarly Open Access (HSOA)

Herald International Research Journals and Herald Scholarly Open Access are on Beall's list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers." The publisher's website (12/26/16) is consistent with this assessment. Despite a Virginia address, it has this mission statement:

Herald Scholarly Open Access is a leading, internationally publishing house in the fields of Sciences. Our mission is to provide an access to knowledge globally. We provide high-quality articles to the scientific community and we strive for your research improvement and distinguishment throughout the world.

We all could use some distinguishment, but if that is not enough, HSOA's vision includes "A Platform to highlight quality exploration work to the biggest possible swarm over development points secured under the field of medicine." One of its medical journals had a dog on its board of editors
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Journal of Forensic, Legal and Investigative Sciences

The website of the Journal of Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences describes it as "a comprehensive, factual reference for anyone interested in learning about the topics in forensic sciences and legal medicine from a lay perspective."
The long list of editors omits an editor-in-chief, but in January 2016, it included the following prominent names in forensic science:

Sue Black, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, UK
Ranajit Chakraborty (listed as Chakraborty Ranajit, Professor, Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, USA
Lawrence Kobilinsky, Chairman, Science, City University of New York, USA
Henry C Lee, Chair Professor, Department of Forensic Science Program, USA

Other faculty listed as members of the editorial board (and given nice certificates attesting to their membership) included

Anna Barbaro	+	Executive-Editor, President, Worldwide Association of Women Forensic Experts(WAWFE) and Studio Indagini Mediche E Forensic (SIMEF), Italy
Peter D Anderson	+	Forensic Pharmacologist, Randstad Healthcare Boston, USA
Brion Benninger	*+	Executive Director, Department of Medical Anatomical Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, USA
Gisela Bishler	*	Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, USA [California State}
Charles Clifford Boyd	*+	Professor, Department of Anthropological Sciences, USA [Radford University]
Christian M Crowder	+	Director, Department of Forensic Anthropology, USA
Matthew J Delisi	*+	Professor and Coordinator, Criminal Justice Studies, Iowa State University, USA
Artem V Domashevskiy	*+	Assistant Professor, Department of Sciences, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA
Franklin L Dorman	*+	Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Claire Glynn	*+	Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science, USA [University of New Haven]
Brooke W. Kammrath	*+	Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science, USA [University of New Haven]
Evgeny Katz	*+	Professor, Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, USA
Marilyn Miller	*+	Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Science, USA [Virginia Commonwealth University]
Eve Lowenstein	*+	Associate Professor, Departmenr of Dermatology, USA [University of SUNY HSC Brooklyn Downstate]
Igor Ovchinnikov	*+	Associate Professor, Department of Biology, USA [University of North Dakota]
Gloria Proni	*+	Associate Professor, Science Department, City University of New York, USA
Sheree Hughes-Stamm	*+	Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science, USA [Sam Houston State]
Baneshwar Singh	*+	Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science, USA [Virginia Commonwealth University]
Jessica Zarate	+	Research Scientist, Department of Forensic Science, USA
* listed as of January 2016     + listed as of July 2018

Email

• Hope this mail finds you in good health! ... I would be grateful if you would review a paper entitled “Impact of Background Noise in Mobile Phone Networks on Forensic Voice Comparison” with the manuscript references no HFLIS-15-007 for the Journal of Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences. If you wish to review this paper, kindly go through the abstract given below and if you do not want to review this paper, kindly let us know your opinion on the same so that we can send you full length article. [← Hmm, looks like a Catch 22. I did not reply, but the paper was published on 2/16/16 as a "case report" by Esam Alzqhoul, Balamurali Nair, and Bernard J Guillemin of the University of Auckland.]
• Date: Feb. 19, 2016
  Greetings from the Journal of Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences! With reference to our previous mail, I am writing to follow up on the manuscript submission for our upcoming issue.
  Regards,
  Paul Schiller
  Herald Scholarly Open Access, Herndon, Virginia USA
• From: Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences [forensicscience@heraldopenaccess.info]
  Date: Fri July 13, 2018, 7:18 AM and Jul 13 at 7:17 AM
  Subject: Manuscript Submission - Upcoming Issue
  Good Day Dr. David H. Kaye,
  Warm Wishes! We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences is one of the Herald Scholarly Open Access journals, which aims for vast readership with advanced research work. Currently, the Journal is planning for an upcoming issue. We would like you to submit your research/review/mini review/short communication/perspective articles for this upcoming issue. Please let us know your opinion for submission. If you are interested, you can submit an article online. Feel free to ask for further queries Hope to hear a positive response from your end [← My end?]
  Regards,
  Katherine Chelsea
  Herald Scholarly Open Access USA
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