How To Identify Predatory Journals

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The Exact Ways how to identify predatory journals

Once you have completed your research and are ready to publish them in any reputed journal you must know how to identify predatory journals. Identifying a reputed journal by scrolling through UGC predatory journal list 2021 is essential for a successful outcome of your paperwork. Here are some of the ways by which you can an exact predatory journal that matches your needs.

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What are Predatory Journals?

Before knowing how does UGC identifies predatory journals, let us briefly understand such predatory journals. Predatory journals are the journals that readily ask the author to pay some charges for publishing their paper, but never provide the quality of service that is mentioned in their portal. Even there exist such journals that do not publish the work of a researcher even after receiving payment from them. There are also predatory journals that publish the paper just for money and do not care about the quality of the research. Such predatory journals are different from open access journals in the way that open access journals only publish quality work without taking any charges while these predatory journals just want money to run their business. So, one must be safe from such scam journals.

Publishing your journal in any low profile journal will waste all your hard work as your work will never reach the target audience. By this your work will never be implemented and acknowledged properly that can even affect your career in the long run.

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How To Identify Predatory Journals
Steps To How To Identify Predatory Journals
  1. Check the website of the journal thoroughly; you can even consult your friends and colleagues for the same.
  2. A good journal is generally a member of STM, DOAJ, OASPA, and COPE, so look for it.
  3. Verify the contact information of the journal
  4. Proper research of the editorial board is also necessary to recognize any journal.
  5. Read the review process and the time they take to publish any journal.
  6. Read the level of papers that the particular predatory journal publishes.

IJSET is one of the popular journals that publish research papers on various domains such as Mechanical, civil, electrical, cloud computing, etc. The publishing process in this journal is easy and also offers reliable service to the researchers. The journal is also equipped with 24*7 live chat support services.