Donnish Journals

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." They also are informed that "Manuscript submission and their accessibility is not an infringement of copyright." That's a relief.
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  • From: Donnish Journals [mail@academicpublishing.online]
    To: dhanee121@gmail.com
    DEate: 5/26/18 at 10:08 AM
    Subject: Call for Paid Editors/Reviewers
    All articles published Donnish Journals are peer-reviewed. We are currently seeking qualified and outstanding researchers to join its editorial team as paid editors or reviewers. Send your resume as an email attachment to the respective journals provided below ....
    Best regards,
    Dr. Richard F.K.
    Donnish Journals
  • From: Donnish Journals
    To: dhalikia@yahoo.com
    Date: Oct 10 at 6:13 AM
    Subject: Call for Reviewers and Editors
    Donnish Journals is a Multidisciplinary international journal. We are seeking qualified and high profile researchers to join our editorial team as paid editors/reviewers. Send your resume/CV as an email attachment to your journal of interest from the [long] list provided below: ...
    Best regards,
    Clarke Anthony
    Donnish Journals

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