Saturday, December 8, 2018

American Journal of Engineering Research (AJER)

I have not been able to determine the publisher of the American Journal of Engineering Research (AJER). A reputable journal would have the publisher's name and address on its website. This journal's email to me came from an account on a South Korean web portal and had no signature line or other identification of the individual who wrote it. The domain name AJER.org is registered to Chetan Sharma, Publishing, Shri Ram Colony, Devi Mandir road, Dasna, Ghaziabad (201015), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201015, India, +91.9313171903, chetan.journals@gmail.com. The name or email address is associated with various other flaky journals or publishers.The address on AJER's website belongs to National State Research, a private company in Connecticut. Its Vice President of R & D, Moinuddin Sarker, is the managing editor of the journal. Dr. Sarker has four publications in OMICS journals.

Other red flags are evident. First, aside from Moinuddin Sarker, the editorial board of this "American Journal of Engineering" is devoid of editors from the United States. (Good journals need not have US editors, but one has to wonder about the honesty of an "American journal" that has such tenuous connections with America.)

Second, it is not clear how many of the editors are engineers. One is a postdoc (polymer science) at Shah abdul Latif University in Pakistan. Others specialize in such subjects as animal breeding, genitourinary tumors, health and epidemiology, hypoxia, and "Logic, Philosophy of Maths and African Science."

Third, the journal touts its inclusion in the American National Engineering Database (and in no other indexing service). ANED has been described as a "fake database by fake publisher" in India.

Fourth, the journal promises peer review within a week. Competent peer review within a week is not routinely possible.

Finally, AJER insists that it is an "official international journal," whatever that means.
Email
  • From: index [inex.editor@daum.net]
    Date: Thu 12/6/2018 11:57 PM
    Subject: Explore your Research Globally
    Welcome to AJER
    American journal of Engineering Research (AJER Journal is indexed in American National Engineering Database)
    Current Issue December, 2018 (Volume 07 - Issue 12)
    LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION – 10th December 2018
    DATE OF PUBLICATION –20th December 2018
    A PEER REVIEWED REFEREED MONTHLY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
    We are pleased to inform you that AJER is going to launch its next issue
    (Volume 07, Issue 12). We would like to invite you to contribute your Research Paper for publication in AJER. Papers published in AJER will receive very high publicity and acquire very high reputation. We publish original research articles, review articles and technical notes. The journal reviews papers within one week of submission and publishes accepted articles on the internet immediately upon receiving the final versions. Our fast reviewing process is our strength. ...
    Authors are required to submit the full paper (PDF and Word format) to the ajer@editormails.com
    ________________________________________
  • From: PDF By American journal of Engineering Research (AJER) [updates@academia-mail.com]
    Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:15 PM
    Subject: 📄 by American journal of Engineering Research (AJER)
    From your Reading History:
    American journal of Engineering Research (AJER)
    1,011 Views
    View PDF ▸ Download PDF ⬇
    Want fewer recommendations like this one?
    580 California St., Suite 400, San Francisco, CA, 9410
    ________________________________________

3 comments:

  1. From the same "publisher"[=Chetan Sharma, Publishing, Shri Ram Colony, Devi Mandir road, Dasna, Ghaziabad (201015), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201015, India, +91.9313171903, chetan.journals@gmail.com.] flimsy E-mails advertising at least one other "Journal" I received today (unsolicited e-mail - therefore category SPAM):
    sent Mo 21.01.2019 11:30 by:
    editorsend

    to exactly 24 publicly visible private & institutional e-mail-Addresses, "stolen" or copied from special web-services (like MSA-Listserver Archives, or Research Gate platform) and pasted then....:
    QUOTE:
    "The International Journal of
    Engineering & Science (THE IJES)
    [Computed by African Quality Center for Journals: 2.18]
    Impact Factor :7.2

    Dear Researcher,

    The International Journal of Engineering & Science (THE IJES) is an International peer reviewed, open access, Engineering and Science Journal promoting the discovery, innovation, advancement and dissemination of basic and transitional knowledge in engineering, science and related disciplines. We aim to revolutionize industry by promoting legitimate and effective research.

    We welcome original research articles/manuscripts as long as their research questions are important, new, and relevant to general readers and their designs are appropriate and robust.
    (Online- ISSN: 2319-1913; Print-ISSN: 2319-1805)
    The (IJES) provides individual hard copy of certificates to all authors free of cost at their postal address after online publication.

    NB: I don't want to copy here all of the e-mail-content, but would like to end with last part of their closing remark:

    "....
    E-mail: theijes@submitmails.com
    (NB:the domain is linked to Chetan Sharma,Publishing,see above!)

    Best Regards,
    Editorial Board,
    (THE IJES) " (end of quote)

    See also: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_International_Journal_of_Scientific_and_Engineering_Research_ISSN_2229-5518_a_valid_Journal , , answer/reply No. 057 by W.H. MUSS (womuss@gmail.com)

    ReplyDelete
  2. I am listed as the Chief Editor of this fake journal. I am a philosopher/logician and not an engineer. I have made fruitless efforts to stop this fraud. This criminals must be stopped.

    ReplyDelete
  3. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION on
    >>AMERICAN Journal of ENGINEERING RESEARCH<<
    The unknown maintainer(s) of this "Journal" (AJER) are still active and obviously spam e-mail-accounts worldwide most recently. This time they sent their message via
    >> AJER <<.

    ===============================================
    Content of E-Mail:
    FROM: AJER
    Subject line: AJER Journal
    Text body:

    Home | Topics
    ISSN (p): 2320-0936 ISSN (e): 2320-0827

    American Journal of Engineering Research
    Call for Paper
    In association with American Society of Scientific Research

    AJER Editorial Board invites you to submit your research paper for the upcoming edition of the journal .

    All published papers are indexed and hosted at Directory of Open Access Journals.

    Authors can submit their papers via an email to ajer@editormails.com


    CALL for PAPER CONTACT US




    Paper Submission By:
    October 25 2020

    You can email original research paper to ajer@editormails.com


    Participating organizations
    • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
    • Google Scholar
    • American National Engineering Database
    • Editorial Board


    © 2012-2020 AJER USA. All Rights Reserved.

    American Society of Scientific Research,
    Sam ford, CT-06902, New York, NY 10001, USA

    [NB: CAVE: it is / must be clear that the afore-mentioned ADDRESS MORE THAN LIKELY is FAKE...: A Google search for
    | Sam ford CT 06902 |
    reveals that it might be linked to a city (with ~ 1900 inhabitants) named:
    >>Stamford CT 06902 = CONNECTICUT USA
    but NOT >>NEW YORK NY 10001 USA!<< ]

    Website: www.ajer.org

    Regarding:
    >>In association with American Society of Scientific Research<< it is to mention that a thorough Google Search for
    | American Society of Scientific Research | revealed ONLY 3 results, two of them link to clippets of Portland / Oregon and Raleigh /NC-Newspapers (1904, -p-18- and 1905, p-6-, respectively!),
    the third result pointing to a firm providing support to / for essay-(ghost?)writers... https://metalqa.com/index.php/research-essay/ which presents a firm, called (https://getessay.net/), their website in layout very similarly to that of Kairosinfo.in -the 'AJER' advertising e-mail was sent from...huhh, the more digging the more irregularities or -better - incomprehensibilities:
    [QUOTE from BOTTOM of website] >GetEssay.net< is owned and operated by
    Forpio Limired, Cyprus
    [NB: ‚Limired‘ ought to be denominated as „ Limited“, cf: https://cyprusregistry.com/companies/HE/363106; or https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.forpio_limited.12f4026e888f93e5e9355c925163fed6.html, or:
    https://writingservice.reviews/co/forpio-ltd,

    the latter site-content pointing to a connection with: ‚Yultan Consulting LTD‘, more details about one can find in the last mentioned URL… ].
    Phone: +1 888 788-5558 [may be a toll-free phone-number via /in USA? Why? ] and E-Mail: : support@getessay.net

    Unfortunately no lawyer specialized in business / commercial law or ieconomic / business crime investigator...

    ReplyDelete