Are Arcjournals legit?

[Katrina Gulliver]

I looked up a journal that's in my field, and it's published by arcjournals.org, which seems to be in India. The journal editorial board contains scholars from a range of countries (but I've heard of dodgy journals listing people without their knowledge!).

Has anyone else published with journals from this press?

[Wahoo Redux]

Sounds dodgy.  Anytime you have a publisher which publishes in every discipline under the sun and has editors from around the world, particularly if they are hard to identify with a Google search, it's bogus.

And if they say things like this...

Our every international Journal on each discipline is governed by outstandingly expertise and dexterous Editorial Board members.

...it's dodgy.

[Parasaurolophus]

I get so many scammy invitations from India that my default assumption is now that anything from there is probably scammy.

'course, a lot of (legitimate) journal copy editing and layout has been outsourced to India, which complicates my heuristic.

[Katrina Gulliver]

I get so many scammy invitations from India that my default assumption is now that anything from there is probably scammy.

That has been my assumption too but then I don't want to be prejudiced.

[Parasaurolophus]

I get so many scammy invitations from India that my default assumption is now that anything from there is probably scammy.

That has been my assumption too but then I don't want to be prejudiced.

Yeah, I feel the same way, but there's just so much of it...