Herbert Open Access Journals (HOAJ) "inspired ... to allure the word Herbert"

The website of Herbert Open Access Journals (HOAJ) presents no address but seems to have been composed by someone with unusual locution. For example, HOAJ's "editor guidelines" sputter that "Here it takes an induction to all the Editors with a minimum set of goals and responsibilities in order to follow primary instructions, Publication Ethics, to acquaint the policies and other integrated procedures." As for the "Herbert" in HOAJ, "Nobel Laureate, Herbert Charles Brown has inspired us to allure the word Herbert from his name."

Of the many journals, I confined my attention to the Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics. Although it has been around since 2011, it is not indexed in MEDLINE. It appears to be unable to keep up with affiliations of some of its editors:

• Co-editor-in-chief "Jimmy Efird, University of Newcastle, Australia" left that university over three years ago (according to his LinkedIn page). The current affiliation as shown on LinkedIn and in the American Statistical Association (ASA) directory is the Boston VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center. Dr. Efird (or at least his name) is affilated with other, clearly problematic publishers: Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) (editorial board, American Journal of Analytical Chemistry); Bentham Science, country editor, Current Pharmaceutical Design); SciTechnol, editorial board, International Journal of Cardiovascular Research).
• Editorial board member "Sharon Marie Homan, University of North Texas Health Sciences Center USA" was an administrator and faculty member at UNT for three years. According to LinkedIn, that ended over seven years ago, in February 2016.

Juniper's Biometrics and Biostatistics Open Access Journal (BBOAJ)

Juniper Publishers reputedly produces nonsensical articles and plagiarized papers. Its mailing address in Irvine, California, is a "Professional Mail Address For Your Business" and "Mail Forwarding Services on request" from Same Day Virtual. Its scope is extraterrestrial--it wants to reach "the research community throughout the universe." Consistent with the publisher's desire "to offer the best in class," its Global Journal of Addiction and Rehabilitation Medicine included the infamous Dr. Olivia Doll--a pit bull with a concocted C.V. of canine research--on its editorial board.

Among its 75 journals is the Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal. BBOAJ "encourages in spreading the information and advances in assorted areas that are concerned with the application of i. Statistics ... And ii. Biometrics." (In case you did not know, it defines the former as "Responsible for the proper interpretation of scientific data generated in the biology, public health and other health sciences like biomedical sciences" and the latter as "Dealing with the measurable biological characteristics.")

I looked for information on the first two "Honorable Editors." I did not look into any of the (less honorable?) "Associate Editors." At the top of the list is Siquan Wang of "Columbia University USA." According to LinkedIn, Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. this year from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and has experience as a graduate teaching and research assistant and a summer intern at Morgan Stanley.

The second honorable editor is Ramalingam Shanmugam of "Texas State University USA"--an "Honorary Professor of International Studies in the School of Health Administration," the President of the San Antonio Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and a recent ASA Fellow. He is listed as an editor of one journal after another from publishers that have been criticized as fraudulent or predatory--Omics (fined $50,000,000 for deceptive practices), Scholarena (discussed on this blog), Kenkyu Group, and perhaps more

Contrary to what its home page suggests, BBOAJ is not indexed for MEDLINE and is not in the National Library of Medicine collection.