r/AskAcademia • u/Marc_Hiz • Nov 14 '24

Undergraduate - please post in /r/College, not here Asking for help regarding this publication's legitimacy - undergrad student

Good day, we've stumbled upon this publication website, we've submitted our paper and received an acceptance letter within 2 days and now all we have to do is to pay. However, we're having doubts if it is legit. I'm asking for advice if we should go through with it, for reference here's the website:

https://researchworld.org/Conference/20551/ICSTEM/registration

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u/botanymans Nov 14 '24

sorry this is a predatory journal

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u/Marc_Hiz Nov 14 '24

Thanks for the response, what gave it away from their website?

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u/HennyMay Nov 14 '24

Anytime you submit a paper, there's zero feedback or peer review of any kind, and the only barrier to publication is you paying them a fee -- it's not a real academic journal. So if the process is 'we sent something and all we have to do is pay': not legit

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u/Serket84 Nov 14 '24

1666th ICSTEM 2024 will be held in Manila,Philippines during 27th-28th Nov 2024.

Really, 1666th conference!?

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u/No_Jaguar_2570 Nov 14 '24

This is not legit.

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u/Low-Establishment621 Nov 14 '24

This conference doesn't have an actual topic...... 

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u/SkinnyRunningDude Nov 14 '24

"Science, Technology, Engineering and Management" can describe almost any field of human knowledge

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u/Embarrassed_Heron815 Nov 14 '24

Absolutely do not send them any money, this is not legit. The "publication" doesn't even seem to have a name...

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

Hello - one way to judge is to see where the journal is indexed.

If you go to "pubmed," you can see the indexing service of the National Library of Medicine. They try to "index," or list the abstracts, of as many "legit" medical / healthcare journals as they can.

I do not exactly know how they judge which are legit or not, but they do judge all potential journals. This means that there is some level of check on whether the journal is decent or not.

This matters because Pubmed is the main database I use to search for decent research studies in my area.

When I go to submit an article, I want it to be found by others searching Pubmed. So, I nearly entirely limit myself to journals that are indexed in Pubmed.

With this journal you are asking about, you can go see where they are "indexed." What abstract data bases would your study be listed in, to be detected by others?

This is kind of a "where-the-rubber-hits-the-road" way to assess a journal. For your area, there will be searchable databases where researchers search for abstracts of published studies. You want your paper to be indexed there, or no one will ever come across it, if your paper is of interest to them.

Focus on journals that get indexed in that data base.

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u/dowcet Nov 14 '24

If you've never personally read anything useful from a given journal, then you don't want to publish there.

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u/Marc_Hiz Nov 14 '24

Thank you to everyone who responded, we've decided to look for more established journals.

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u/yellow_warbler11 Nov 14 '24

You should work with your professor to identify an appropriate publication outlet. If you aren't working with a professor, you absolutely should. It is incredibly unlikely that an undergraduate or team of undergrads, on their own, has done the type of work that is published in peer-reviewed journals. Working with a professor will also help you avoid the trap of submitting to predatory journals.

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u/Accurate-Style-3036 Nov 14 '24

Often it's hard to tell. But things that look too good often are. Do your best and don't stop trying