We
are happy to inform that Nature (Impact Factor: 41.6) confirmed high standard
of SDI journal and its editors (Article link: http://bit.ly/nature-sdi). As per
the article, an investigation found that dozens of academic journals offered '
Anna Szust --Dr Fraud' — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their
editorial board. Thousands of academic journals do not aspire to quality. They
exist primarily to extract fees from authors. These 'predatory' journals
exhibit questionable marketing schemes, follow lax or non-existent peer-review
procedures and fail to provide scientific rigour or transparency. Crucial to a
journal's quality is its editors. Editors decide whether a paper is reviewed
and by whom, and whether a submission should be rejected, revised or accepted.
Such roles have usually been assigned to established experts in the journal's field,
and are considered prestigious positions. Many predatory journals hoping to
cash in seem to aggressively and indiscriminately recruit academics to build
legitimate-looking editorial boards. The authors of the article conceived a
sting operation and submitted a fake application for an editor position to 360
journals, a mix of legitimate titles and suspected predators. Forty-eight
journals accepted the application.
One
of our journals was also targeted by the authors of this NATURE article as part
of the sting operation. They also sent the application. But SDI editorial
screening committee rejected that the application as it was very low quality
and suspicious. The profile was dismally inadequate for a role as editor. In
fact, ScienceDomain International never bothered to send a reply to the
applicant. ScienceDomain International has not sent even a rejection mail.
At
ScienceDomain we maintain a very high-quality stringent evaluation process
during the selection of editors. Our editors are chosen after a 6 steps
checking process. SDI selects the editors, who only pass these six-step
evaluation criteria. Additionally, SDI publicly publishes profile link, the
institutional link of the editors. To maintain the highest level of
transparency, SDI follows ‘open peer review’ process. Along with the published
paper, SDI journals publicly publish all the peer review reports, editorial
reports, different versions of the revised manuscript. Names of the editors and
reviewers are also published publicly along with any published paper.
SDI
congratulates all our esteemed editors to maintain the high standard of our
journals. SDI is also thankful to the editors, as they do tremendous hard-work
in different rounds of peer review process to uplift the quality of published
papers. SDI is also thankful to the reviewers of our journals, who relentlessly
work to evaluate manuscripts. Without the sincere, dedicated and honest help of
editors and reviewers from the very beginning, SDI journals cannot maintain
this high quality.
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