This Indian journal called “International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology” is spamming my friend’s email, sending three emails in one day, asking him to submit a paper for peer review. This IJACT journal has already been identified as a predatory open access journal. In fact, it has been featured in the popular Jeffrey Beall’s website. What is predatory open access publishing? It is “an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals.” Via Nature: …predatory publishers publish counterfeit journals to exploit the open-access model in
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