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Donnish Journals has no address on its website or in its "journals." The person or people behind them cannot be found in the registration data for the domain donnishjournals.com (thanks to GoDaddy.com). Looking into the Donnish Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution , one finds (5/29/18) highly sporadic "issues" usually consisting of single articles of about ten pages. The journal has no editor-in-chief, and as of May 29, 2018, "[a] detailed list of Editors, Associate Editors and Editorial team will be available shortly." All submissions "are made to undergo sectioning" -- which sounds ominous. "Thereafter they are double-blindedly peer-reviewed ... ." Authors can rest assured that "[m]ore than 100 reviewers are working diligently to shorten the review cycle of the academic research publication; and help researchers to pay more attention on the research itself, not waiting for too long, for suggestions from reviewers." Th...

Sciendo sounds suspicious. The name itself is a bit contrived; the emailed advertising invitation closes with the absurd warning that it might contain confidential information; and the missive refers to "over 1,100 academic journals, 35 databases, and 100,000 books, with more than 1,300 new book titles added to the platform each year." But that cornucopia comes from De Gruyter, a German publisher that has been operating for centuries. Sciendo is a repackaging of De Gruyter Open, the publisher's previous open access business, now operating separately under the new name in Poland. It supports self-publishing but also publishes journals and works on conferences for universities. Although Sciendo is a bona fide publisher, some flakiness mars its web site. For example, the list of law journals includes the Journal of Catalan Intellectual History , Economics and Culture , European Polygraph , and Scientific Bulletin . (The Scientific Bulletin , produced at the Land Forces Acad...

InTechOpen's main web pages site are devoid of the usual solecisms and grammatical errors seen on the websites of many smaller and plainly questionable publishers preying on academics. The About Us page describes the group as "the world's largest Science, Technology and Medicine Open Access book publisher." It claims InTechOpen "has published 2,977 books and 46,833 scientific works total by 100,665 international scientists" (whatever "international" means in this context). That would be about 2 books every 3 days and 11 articles every day, 7 days a years, for the 12 years of InTechOpen's existence. In 2018, InTechOpen wanted me to pay them 1,400 Euros to write a chapter of between 14 and 20 pages for a book on "Trends and Challenges in Forensic Analysis ? New Frontiers in Forensic Science." I have to wonder about the question mark in the title, but there is not much doubt about likely quality. The subject areas include "nuclear p...

Biocore is on Beall's list of predatory journals, and it not hard to see why. Its web pages explain that: ⊘ "Biocore motto is to give the human era with better future. This can be achieved with our renowned editors, authors and reviewers with their exchanged views and knowledge." ⊘ "Biocore has been involved the knowledge on Science & technology to the access way of every individual." ⊘ "With the Open Access evolution, we are making the genuine and trustworthy contributions to the scientific environment without stopping the access to the readers for reading or even downloading the published papers/articles." ⊘ "[A]ll the eminent personalities can search our database." ⊘ "With the Editorial Board Members of 600, the number is increasing with the volume ... ." And if you are interested in travel (to Dubai at least), "Biocore is going to conduct Scientific Conferences in near future for grouping all the eminent personalities ...

Biocore's International Journal of Criminal and Forensic Science " will emphasize high-level research of clinical relevance and exhilarating approach." It "deals with clinical case reports, mysterious incidents happens in the Forensic and Criminal research group." One not-so-exhilarating incident is the publication of a previously published paper on "Fingerprint Geometric Analysis." (Compare the IJCFS paper with the JFCI paper .)* The paper is mysterious indeed, but it ends with the promise that "Be assured, this method will provide a successful outcome!" Biocore has been labelled a predatory publisher and conference organizer . This journal has no editor-in-chief named, but it lists an editorial with the following members as of 5/16/18: ⊡ Dobbert Duane , Professor, Division of Justice Studies, American College of Forensic Examiners International ⊡ Ismail M. Sebetan , Professor of Forensic Sciences, National University ⊡ Presley Larry , As...

UK Consultancy Services publishes several journals of broad scope and runs conferences in Switzerland through a "division" named "World Conferences." The journals include ⊘ European Journal of Law and Management (EJLM) ⊘ European Journal of Medicine and Dentistry (EJMD) ⊘ European Journal of Sciences (EJS) ⊘ European Journal of Social Sciences (EJSS) ⊘ Scientific European (SCIEU) The EJLM website states (5/15/18) that its "editorial board comprises of people from varied scholarly areas of law and management who are renowned in their own field and come from diverse geographies and backgrounds." No names are provided, but the editor-in-chief is Umesh Prasad. As befits a journal with no editors, there are no articles listed on the website for this "monthly" journal. Likewise, EJMD 's "editorial board comprises of people from varied scientific areas of medicine and dentistry who are renowned in their own field and come from diverse ge...

I am not suggesting that Vanderplas Publishing is a scammer or a predatory publisher. Its publications include books by perfectly reputable authors. But there are a number of question marks: It periodically solicits me in separate mailings to multiple email addresses. A book has this review from Judge Alex Kozinzki (ret.): "If you’re holding this book in your hands – as you no doubt must be – just start turning pages and get ready for a treat.” That sounds good, but, hey, it it is an eBook . Still, at $9.95, the price is right. The office address is one of those provided by Regus, a company that supplies "virtual offices" and "will receive and sign for mail and packages." It advertises a "professional company image without the cost of a physical office." However, it also leases spared space and rooms. Buzzfile, a company database, estimates only "$114,590 in annual revenues" and "approximately 2 people at this [Lake Mary, Florida] loc...

The spam from the Journal of Biochemical Technology does not provide the name or address of a publisher, but it is Sevas Publishing of the Sevas Society. The Society wants "[t]o create interactive atmosphere among researchers, organizations, faculties, students, employees, merchants and farmers to develop villages." The domain jbiochemtech.com is registered to amit, Mayur Khandelwal, Nagpur Maharashtra 281001 India, +91.9358080226, mth.amit@gmail.com. Email Date: May 4 at 10:50 PM (twice) From: Editor jbiochemtech (submit@jbiochemtech.net) Subject: Contribute Your Research- Thomson Reuters-Web of Science (ESCI)-Releasing on 31 May, 2018 Journal of Biochemical Technology (An Online Monthly Journal of Biochemical Technology) ISSN: 0974-2328 CAS CODEN (USA): JBTOB8 Call for Papers: Volume 8, Issue 1, 2018 (Releasing on 31 May, 2018) Journal of Biochemical Technology is an online international journal to promote all aspects of biochemistry, biotechnology and bioinformatics a...