Arjeta Hallunovi
Abstract
Nowadays, in the global environment where we live, the importance and necessity of having serious scientific journals with high standards for publishing the results of the work of researchers it is increasing. As academics are required to publish scientific papers in order to demonstrate their scientific work in achieving academic degrees in higher education institutions, as well as to evaluate their performance, they are encountered everyday with the increased number of invitations to publications with accelerated procedures, without going through a regular procedure of reviewing the work. Day after day the integrity of academic publications is being threatened by publishers and such journals, which aim at material benefits rather than contribution to scientific research. In general, in developing countries there is a gap in the knowledge of scientific researchers in terms of selecting publishers and journals for publication; it often happens that they publish in such journals as a result of the lack of proper information about them.