Personally, If i were you, I'd resign from that journal's board before you end up on someone's blacklist like http://www.anti- plagiarism.org/ . The accusations about several of these conferences seem to be very real. They are for-profit machines. You submit a paper, you pay the registration, someone gets a percentage of that registration, and everyone is happy. They admittedly have little or no peer review, and they accept randomly generated papers. Let us take a moment to consider your journal. it is hosted by International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics which does not seem to exist except to host your journal and several of the conferences listed on the list that Alex posted and the blacklist above. it is edited by the two people directly implicated in the conference which led to this scandal:http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/blog/ so then, what is the content of this journal? who sits on the editorial board? where have they published? where does this journal rank in isi? what do subject area librarians think of this journal? ask around and see, ask your advisor or dept. head about this journal, then tell them about the blacklist and the scandal, and see what they say. my advice would be to distance yourself from this enterprise. On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:50 AM, Homero Gil de Zuniga wrote:
Maybe someone in the editorial board would like to take the time to reply to the AoIR list about this accusation... PS. Please note that this e-mail is being sent to both the AoIR list and the editorial board of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics with ISSN: 1690-4524 HGZ
Let's see if someone clarifies this!!! :-)
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