Researchers across the world receives grants for their research and the funding agency pays the publisher to keep the published article open for access. Taking advantage of this, many predatory journals have been launched to collect a fee for publication. These journals do not form any solid editorial board and they are completely biased in the review process.

UGC has strictly warned the researchers to do not go with pay-and-publish journals. “Suggesting sweeping reforms to promote the quality of research in India, a UGC panel has recommended that publication of research material in “predatory” journals or presentations in conferences organised by their publishers should not be considered for academic credit in any form.”, as per the Indian Express news dated on June 21, 2019.

https://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/6315352_UGC-Public-Notice-CARE.pdf

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/research-published-pay-and-publish-fake-journals-wont-count-ugc-panel-5791656/

It is very safe and secure to publish the research article in a free/hybrid journal, which do not collect any charges from the authors for publishing the selected article. Such journals are not biased and they keep up the quality of the review process.

Easysynopsis, a premier institute, has created awareness to the PhD scholars and researchers about these predatory journals for the last 4 years. Easysynopsis has warned their PhD scholars and researchers to do not attempt to pay-and-publish journals. Instead, Easysynopsis supports theirs scholars for high quality paper writing, implementation and analysis to get the paper be selected by refereed non-paid/ free Internationals journals indexed by Scopus, Web of Science, Science Citation Index.

Easysynopsis strongly recommends the PhD scholars and researchers to go with the aforesaid indexed International journals to make their research career worth enough for a lifetime.