Hello friends welcome to my channel forensic science by Dr bhupesh and today we are going to talk about some important topic which we as a researcher we as a writer author. We need to pay a lot of attention to this dear friends. All of us as a researcher want to publish our articles in repetit journals. And what is happening nowadays. You all have witnessed that many uh of you will be getting the WhatsApp messages or calls from different publication houses regarding different journals that they are scopus indexed they are under web of Science and you may publish your articles in these channels and you as an excited author quickly we pay them a large amount we pay somewhere around in Indian rupees if I talk about 40 to 50 000 rupees or we pay uh then maybe 100 000 rupees or maybe 1000 USD and more and what happens next we as a author we check all the authenticity of the journal we go to Scoopa site we check that it is available in the scopas from this year to this year and we are assured that we can give our articles to these channels and what happened next you pay the money your article get published and what happens when you send the email to scoopers that please index our article or abstract our article in your database sent an email back to you that the journal is no more indexed in these copas it is discontinued in these copas in the month of this this and no article will be abstracted or index of this journal and no Gap will be filled now the problem here is friends your hard-earned money you have lost or you know hardly written article has been lost because you cannot publish it again anywhere online. The journal was existing but it is not scopus index and without any scopus indexing or without web of science or SCI or esci indexing. You don't have any value of your article once you publish your article in such of the Predator journals you know I would also like to give you certain examples of such journals for which the people in India or abroad may be approaching you.

One is a general or positive school psychology which is very much circulating they say that it is Q2 Q3 say ranking and other one is neuro quantology which is uh now being circulated a lot among the you know authors among the researchers that their article will get published okay Journal is fine but they are not indexed in scopus anymore and the third one is international channel of Health Sciences and there are many there are many so please contact scopus elsewhere directly through there you know there is a portal you can approach them find out whether the journal is scope as indexed or not and then only publish your article it's not only about these citations you will get on Google Scholar but what you need you need the citations on the scopus as well as where of science as well so the problem here is if you will not publish your article in the scope us indexed or website in general then the article will not get citations in the scopus OR websites so be cautious it is a scam what scopus has to do now. It's my humble request to use copas because this is going to be a very you know big issue for the researcher if the journal is discontinued from the scope they should immediately reflect it on the website on the scope side when we type the ISL number or when we type the uh the title of the journal it should clearly mention that that this journal has been discontinued from these couples at the very first time. It's not that after six months it will be updated. That's the scam where. I think that this is the scam of the scopus where we need to take care so what I suggest you to do in such cases. Let's say your article have been accepted in any of the journal which for which you have been approached. So what you do you send an email to scopus elsewhere that uh my paper has been accepted. I would like to know the status of this journal and I am damn sure that you will get the answer that this is. This journal is no more indexed in these coupons so please be assured of this do not fall prey of such scams because they are running there are many publication houses now they are not actually publication houses.

They are just running the publication household over the WhatsApp group of WhatsApp even in a single small office or from any Village area or from somewhere these so-called researchers those who do not got job anywhere they are doing this type of activities and they pay very small amount to the journal and they take they fill their pocket with the large amount. What you pay for them and this is the first the first loss is that you cannot publish that article anywhere in the world again even if you paraphrase it even if you do all the things even if you bring down the pleasure uh up to ten percent by paraphrasing but your genuinely has been lost okay. The article generally has been lost so you should not take this as a chance. Do not take it as a grant. Okay take care of your article and do not pay anybody anything unless you ask them that whether my article will be indexed in a scopus are you giving me a surety that my article will be induced in these copers so then only you should pay if they give you a surety and I am sure they will not give you a surety because they will say indexing depends upon the scopus we are not giving any assurity we only give you a surety of your publication and that's not our concern. Our publication is not our concern we can publish in ugc care one uh Journal easily for only 1500 or 1000 rupees then why we should pay large amount so better to write a genuine article number one number two search for the journal on the scope site itself and then approach the journal submit your articles to various journals and wherever your article get accepted or peer reviewed after amending it according to the reverse comment you should publish your article in the genuine scope of your neck journal and not to all these Falls of fake journals and Please be aware of these you know fake people who are running the big businesses thank you very much.