Hiring Editorial Member for Receiving Papers from Authors

What is it about?

it is worth nowadays to highlight the rise of a new kind of unethical concern that is increasingly growing between some predatory low level journals. The problem faced by these journals lies in the fact that they lack the existence of papers to be published in their issues and therefore they resorted to the solution of hiring editorial board for encouraging authors to send their researching work to their respective journals. In other terms, the strategy of that kind of journals is to invite well-known and popular practitioners in some fields to hire them as editorial members for receiving papers from authors all around the world. More specifically, some of these journals impose on their editorial members to send them their papers for publication at the condition of being removed from the editorial members list if they don’t approve their requests.

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Why is it important?

it is worth nowadays to highlight the rise of a new kind of unethical concern that is increasingly growing between some predatory low level journals. The problem faced by these journals lies in the fact that they lack the existence of papers to be published in their issues and therefore they resorted to the solution of hiring editorial board for encouraging authors to send their researching work to their respective journals. In other terms, the strategy of that kind of journals is to invite well-known and popular practitioners in some fields to hire them as editorial members for receiving papers from authors all around the world. More specifically, some of these journals impose on their editorial members to send them their papers for publication at the condition of being removed from the editorial members list if they don’t approve their requests.