Selecting a journal for one’s scholarly work – What is in the name?

Abstract

At a time when I was planning to pen down an editorial for the  current issue of our journal, and was thinking of a topic of  common interest and utility, I received an e-mail from one of the  younger contributors of our journal requesting for withdrawal  of his submission as his research was accepted in an  international journal. Not going into the intricacies of how he  could submit his work simultaneously in two journals, what  caught my attention was his proud announcement about the  work being published in an 'international' journal. Out of  curiosity, I searched for the journal he referred to, and found that  rd the said open access journal was in its 3 year of inception, and  not unexpectedly had misleading information about its scope,  impact factor etc. The journal in fact, seemed an ideal candidate  to be listed as a predatory journal. The need for increasing  awareness regarding predatory journals has been emphasized to  ensure that young researchers do not fall prey to predatory  journals. In this regard, we have already brought to the attention