Let’s speak about Predatory and non-Predatory Journals: The following publishers are not predatory in any sense: IASTED, ACTA Press,  IARIA,    IARAS,   WSEAS ,  NAUN,   IAENG ,  WIT Press

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Karim Massoud, Xiaodong Zhuang, Badea Lepadatescu, Aida Bulucea, Nikos Bardis, Klimis Ntalianis, Lambros Ekonomou, Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Imre J. Rudas

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Let’s speak about Predatory and non-Predatory Journals: The following publishers are not predatory in any sense: IASTED, ACTA Press, IARIA, IARAS, WSEAS , NAUN, IAENG , WIT Press

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ABSTRACT

Predatory journals—also called fraudulent, deceptive, or pseudo-journals—are publications that claim to be legitimate scholarly journals, but misrepresent their publishing practices. Some common forms of predatory publishing practices include falsely claiming to provide peer review, hiding information about Article Processing Charges (APCs), misrepresenting members of the journal’s editorial board, and other violations of copyright or scholarly ethics. Because of their increasing prevalence, this article aims to provide helpful information for authors on how to identify and avoid predatory journals.
In this paper we test the following small Publishers and we have discovered that their reviews are real peer review. They have strict evaluation indeed. Actually they have rigorous peer review. Some times better than some bigger publishers. They are reliable. They do not say lies. They do not target on the registration fees (APC). So, they are not predatory
• IASTED (Acta Press, www.actapress.com)
• IARIA (www.iaria.org)
• IARAS (www.iaras.org)
• WSEAS (www.wseas.com)
• NAUN (www.npublications.com and www.naun.org)
• IAENG (www.iaeng.org)
• WIT Press (http://www.witpress.com)

We sent several articles to some of their Journals (see below) and we found that they have a wonderful system of peer review, they do not claim fake impact factors or fake cites scores, they do not say lies and they do not target our money. We sent them many articles in the recent years and they accepted approximately 20% of the submitted articles. So, they are reliable, real, genuine Journals (and not predatory). See the list of the Journals that we tested in the Section 4.

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Fake peer review; deceptive journals, predatory publishing, predatory journals, non-predatory Journals, scholarly communications, publishing ethics. The following publishers are not predatory in any sense: IASTED, ACTA Press, IARIA, IARAS, WSEAS , NAUN, IAENG , WIT Press.

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Karim Massoud, Xiaodong Zhuang, Badea Lepadatescu, Aida Bulucea, Nikos Bardis, Klimis Ntalianis, Lambros Ekonomou, Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Imre J. Rudas. (2024) Let’s speak about Predatory and non-Predatory Journals: The following publishers are not predatory in any sense: IASTED, ACTA Press, IARIA, IARAS, WSEAS , NAUN, IAENG , WIT Press. International Journal of Education and Learning Systems, 9, 1-6