Journal Guardians

Awareness for the so-called international conferences (Image credits: https://internationalconferencealerts.com/) So called international conferences are cheating young students and graduates, the persons (staff/faculty) behind them are misleading them to participate in the conferences either online/offline mode. Look at this conference page:  https://iser.org.in/journals.php The so-called conferences are claiming the presented conference paper will be published in a journal that is indexed by Scopus. So students/graduates beware about this scam, the mentioned journals are discontinued from Scopus database. Claiming fake scopus indexed journal: See the analysis below: To know more about how to identify fake Scopus journals, go to www.scopus.com and search for the journal. Scopus case study-1: Scopus case study-2: Claiming fake UGC-CARE indexed journal: The so-called conferences are claiming the presented conference paper will be published in a journal  indexed by UGC-CAR...

(Image credits: https://www.inc.com/) 1. Have you checked the indexing of the journal in reliable databases? Before submitting to a new journal, make sure that the indexing agencies are reputed one. Just give a visit to well reputed publishers such as IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, etc to confirm the reputed indexing service providers. 2. Are you aware of the journal's impact factor and how it compares to other reputable journals in your field? Before submitting to a new journal, make sure that the impact factors (IF) are reputed one. In market many fake IFs are exists in the form *IFs. Once again give a visit to well reputed publishers such as IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, etc to confirm the reputed indexing service providers. 3. Does the journal claim to have an unusually fast publication process compared to other reputable journals? For a journal that follows standard review process definitely it takes some amount of time to identify suitable expert reviewer in the respective area then n...

(Image credits:  https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20230809114344/Best-MBA-Colleges-in-India.png ) Why don't MBA colleges in India take action against staffs and faculties who publish in fake/bogus journals?  If there is rule in MBA Colleges not to publish in fake/bogus journals then surely their staffs/faculties will not approach such a fake/bogus journals to publish their research work. If MBA Colleges gives warning against the faculties/staffs who publish in fake/bogus journals, one can avoid fake/bogus/predatory journals. Here by MBA Colleges are requested to encourage their staffs/faculties to publish in internationally reputed journals. We are in the process of preparing a list of MBA Colleges from where staffs/faculties published in fake/bogus journals.  We will update the list then and there once there is a publication in fake/bogus journal by their staffs/faculties from  MBA Colleges. We will remove the name of the MBA Co...