#1 should be: The journal invites you to submit a paper or edit a special issue.
1) Searching in the box marked “Search this journal” on the journal web page for the name of an author of an article in a recent issue of the journal does not return any hits.
2) Clicking on a link like this
on the journal web site leads to the spoof site www.Medline.com [link removed ... it wouldn't let me come back here].
3) No specific person is identified as the editor of the journal or the person who appears to be identified as the journal’s Editor on the web site says he is not the editor.
4) Google Maps searches for the address of journal shows its headquarters is in a suburban bungalow.
5) You cannot find articles from a bio-medical journal when you search PubMed. [You can check by searching for the journal title here]
6) The journal’s mission on its home page is described in vague, generic terms such as “To publish the most exciting research with respect to the subjects of XXXXXX.”
7) When you call the local phone number for the journal office listed on the web page, any of these happen: 1. No one answers. 2. Someone answers “hello?” on what sounds like a cell phone and hangs up as soon as they hear you speaking. 3. The call is forwarded to the 800 phone bank for the publisher, and the person on the other end cannot tell you the name of the editor of the journal.
8) PubMed Central refuses to accept content from a publisher’s bio-medical journals and DHHS sends a “cease and desist” letter to the publisher.
9) The journal publisher’s posts online a legal notice warning a blogger who writes about the publisher that he is on a “perilous journey” and is exposing himself to “serious legal implications including criminal cases lunched (sic) again you in INDIA and USA” and directs him to pay the publisher $1 billion in damages. Check out the legal notice here.
10) The journal issues and posts online certificates with hearts around the border that certifies you as “the prestigious editorial board member of [name of journal here].”
11) The journal posts “interviews” with members of its editorial board that appear to be electronic questionnaires with comical responses to interviewer questions ...
CORRECTION: The site www.medline.com is real, not a spoof site.
via blogs.plos.org
The journal "Environmental Economics" appears to be fake:
The purpose of the journal is to investigate theoretical, methodological and methodical issues as well as applied problems of environmental economics and environmental protection.
Methodical? The publisher, Business Perspectives, is on Beall's list.
Hat tip: The Door
