Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Does Anyone Know of This Journal?

 International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

They have expressed interest in publishing
Falling Murder Rates: An Artifact of Better Trauma Care or Falling Crime?"  

Lots of web sites describe it as a referred journal (many of them probably created for that purpose--to create a patina of credibility).  Scholar.google.com shows 839 articles published in it, and not obvious nonsense about tuning your chakras.  I know that there are a number of "scholarly journals" that exist strictly to publish articles and sell you reprints which the soliciting email implies.  I do not expect anyone else to have interest in this article, but publishing in a trash journal cannot be good for my credibility.

3 comments:

  1. Your paper doesn't seem to fall squarely within their stated remit of enhancing rehabilitation from disease or injury. And Austin Publishing doesn't have a great reputation -- see for example some discussion preserved on the wayback machine:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20160729174532/https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/03/03/a-true-predator-austin-publishing-group/#comment-411859

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    1. I also found the mismatch odd. Thanks for the warning.

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  2. I believe your previous commenter is confusing Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - International (Austin Publishing) with International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Longdom Publishing).

    However, both publishing operations fall into the "predatory" category and the argument that the article solicited doesn't match well fits in either case.

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