Wednesday, December 21, 2016

American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD)

The "Founding Director" of this "American Research Institute" is Md. Mamin Ullah. He registered the domain name aripd.org with the address Western Education, 5/ka, PC Culture Housing Society, Ring Road Shamoli, Dhaka, 1207, Bangladesh, +880.1778964703, mamin_83@hotmail.com. The "institute's" website gives an address of 3942 Tulane Avenue, Madison, WI 53714. Google Maps displays a nice residential neighborhood there. Md. Mamin Ullah also is Director (Publication and Production) for the Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), 49, Senpara Parbata. In that capacity, he is one of the "key people" publishing another slew of flaky journals. His address as listed there is Mirpur-10, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.

More distressing news was at http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/04/28/more-junk-journals-from-a-bogus-research-center/
American Review of Mathematics and Statistics
This "American Review" has no named editor and a putative editorial board whose members are in Bulgaria, Russia, Kuwait, the Philippines, and Nigeria.
Journal of Law and Criminal Justice
Editor: Prof. Dr. Billy J. Long, is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Ferrum College. According to the journal's website, "He has published dozens of scholarly articles in corrections, policing, theory, and on myriad other topics such as illegal immigration, prostitution, and AIDS in prisons." Some of these are in other journals of ill repute. See Billy Long, Sensitizing Undergraduate Students to the Nature of White Privilege: A Guide for College Teaching, 3 Int'l J. Humanities & Social Sci. No. 14 (2013).

Editorial board: One other member of the editorial board of this "American Research Institute" journal is with a school in the US (Southeast Missouri State University). The others are in Poland, Spain, Turkey, Malaysia, Kenya, South Africa, and Iran (7/4/16, 12/17/17).
Email
Miscellaneous ARIPD Journals
  • From: Matthew Theuri [matthew.theuri01@yahoo.com]
    Date: 12/7/16
    To: callforpapers.aripd@gmail.com
    Subject: Call for Papers
    Dear Professor/Academician:
    Greetings! Please find the attached 'Call for Papers' for upcoming issues of ARIPD Journals. Submit your paper by December 31, 2016. Contact with the Executive Editor at editor@aripd.org for further query. Best Regards,
    ARIPD Journals Team
Journal of Law and Criminal Justice
  • Date: 2/27/16, 7/4/16, 10/9/16, 2/9/17, 4/15/17, 3/21/21
    Subject: Call for papers
    ... Journal of Law and Criminal Justice is a refereed international journal that seeks to publish high quality research papers in the areas of socio-legal studies and the psychology of law, criminology and social justice studies. ...
    Regards,
    Professor Dr. Billy Long
    Ferrum College, USA. Editor-in-Chief
    (The e-mail of 2/7/16 came from aldin27_thomas@yahoo.com; on 7/4/16, the sender was harris.bertha97@yahoo.com; on 2/9/17, it was harris.bertha67@yahoo.com; on 4/15/17, aldin_thomas10.aripd@yahoo.com. The submission deadlines are one month before publication, indicating remarkably prompt peer review, or none to speak of.)
  • From: Jschang 741 [jschang852@yahoo.com]
              Adrian Ferrini [adrian02.aripd@yahoo.com]
              Mustafa Karlie [mustafa_karlie@yahoo.com]
    Sent: Sunday, 12/1717 3:28 AM
             Wednesday, 4/25/2018 2:36 AM
             11/25/2018
    To: jlcj.aripd@gmail.com
    Subject: Call for Papers
    Journal of Law and Criminal Justice is a refereed international journal that seeks to publish high quality research papers in the areas of socio-legal studies and the psychology of law, criminology and social justice studies. The Journal invites papers based on empirical research, theoretical analysis and debate, and policy analysis and critique. The journal is dedicated to presenting system-wide trends and problems on law, crime and justice throughout the world. It provides a forum for social scientists to report research findings for policy making with respect to crime and justice through innovative and advanced methodologies.
    The journal is published by the American Research Institute for Policy Development that serves as a focal point for academicians, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research throughout the world.
    The interested contributors are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts/papers to the executive editor via e-mail at editor@aripd.org. Please indicate the name of the journal (Journal of Law and Criminal Justice) in the cover letter or simply put ‘Journal of Law and Criminal Justice ’ in the subject box during submission via e-mail.
    The journal is Abstracted/Indexed in CrossRef, CrossCheck, Cabell's, Ulrich's, Griffith Research Online, Google Scholar, Education.edu, Informatics, Universe Digital Library, Standard Periodical Directory, Gale, Open J-Gate, EBSCO, Journal Seek, DRJI, ProQuest, BASE, InfoBase Index, OCLC, IBSS, Academic Journal Databases, Scientific Index.
    E-Publication FirstTM E-Publication FirstTM is a feature offered through our journal platform. It allows PDF version of manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted, to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final printed journal. Readers can freely access or cite the article. The accepted papers are published online within one week after the completion of all necessary publishing steps.
    DOI® number
    Each paper published in Journal of Law and Criminal Justice is assigned a DOI® number, which appears beneath the author's affiliation in the published paper.
    JLCJ is inviting papers for Vol. 6, No. 1. The online publication date is June 30, 2018. Submission Deadline: February 28, 2018.
    For any additional information, please contact with the executive editor at editor@aripd.org
    Regards,
    Professor Dr. Billy Long, Ferrum College, USA.
    Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Law and Criminal Justice
  • From: Grace Andrew [andrew147854@yahoo.com]
               Cassidy Eleanor [cassidy.eleanor2014@yahoo.com]
               Rabeka Antina [antinarabeka@yahoo.com]
               SONIHA ROZAREO [soniharozareo@yahoo.com]
               Monalisa Payne [monalisapayne@yahoo.com]
               Lyla Isabel [lylaisabel452.kk@yahoo.com]
               Merritt Henderson [merritthenderson@yahoo.com]
    Date: Mon Jan 21 2019 11:24 PM
              July 20 2019 8:06 AM (and 14 July 2019 11:23 AM, 15 July 2019 5:46 AM)
              Nov 6, 2019 1:36 AM
              Nov 19, 2019 7:13 AM
              Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:58 AM (and May 4, 2020 1:55 AM)
              Sat June 5, 2021 4:18 AM
    Subject: Call for Papers
    [More of the same from Professor Dr. Billy Long "inviting papers for
         Vol. 7, No. 1" with "Submission Deadline: January 31, 2019"
         Vol. 7, No. 2" with "Submission Deadline" July 31, 2019"
         Vol. 7, No. 2" with different "Submission Deadline: November 30, 2019"
         Vol. 8, No. 1" with "Submission Deadline: February 29, 2020"
         Vol. 9, No. 1" with "Submission Deadline: June 30, 2021"]

7 comments:

  1. M. Mamin Ullah
    Executive Editor of Journal of Economics and Development Studies is a Scam. Please, beware.

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  2. I just paid $200 as publication fees for an article to be published in "International Journal of Philosophy and Theology". Editor in Chief is M. Mamin Ullah. Then correspondence stopped!

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  3. oh, i am just wondering if i should pay for the publication of my article to this mamin ullah...

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  4. oh, i am just wondering if i should pay for the publication of my article to this mamin ullah...

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  5. i fear that i may have been conned by editor M. Mamin Ullah. i have paid for publication and he has gone quiet.
    what do i do to get my money back.

    Anybody planning to publish in this journal must confirm whether it is genuine or not.

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  6. He accepted my paper and I retracted it after learning that it is a bogus journal. The same paper has been accepted by another reputed journal. Will this be a problem. I am worried that he will publish it in his website even after retraction

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    1. Hi
      I just wanted to know if he published your article after retraction. He just accepted mine and I want to retract it. Thank you.

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