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September 10, 2018

Dear Dr. Banner:

Thank you for using FORTE’s Journal Assessment Service to determine whether your target
journal or its publisher may be engaging in predatory practices and if there may be moresuitable journals available for publishing your manuscript. Our STEM Publishing Experts havereviewed the information available for your target journal and have compiled thiscomprehensive Assessment to help you make an informed decision about where best to submit
your manuscript. Pages 2 and 3 of the Journal Assessment outline the details of your target
journal. The Journal Recommendation Summary on page 4 provides an overview of otherjournals you may want to consider for submission of your manuscript. Use the Quick Access
Link in the Journal Recommendation Summary to go directly to each journal's website for moreinformation. Page 5 provides some helpful tips for identifying journals or publishers that could
be engaging in predatory practices.

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Manuscript Information

Job No.: BAX12908

Article Type: Original Article

Title: Groundling: The Influence of Constant-Time Models on Operating Systems
Submission History: de novo submission

Journal/Publisher Information

Target Journal: Journal of Advanced Software Systems
Journal URL: URL unavailable for this sample Journal
Impact Factor: 0.71 (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.34)
Publisher: SERTINZ International Publishing Group
Publisher URL: URL unavailable for this sample Publisher

Assessment

Editor & Staff: The Journal appears to have a legitimate Editor and rather diverse
Editorial Board. Please note that actual members of the Board or Journal staff havenot been directly contacted to verify anything.

Publisher: The publisher, SERTINZ International Publishing Group, has been thetarget of several inquiries into its possible predatory practices.

Quality: Published articles in the journal have numerous grammatical errors, which
could suggest minimal or no copyediting or proofreading of submissions or a lack ofthorough peer review (please see the example on the following page).

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Abstruct [Should be “Abstract”]
Recent advances in perfect configurations and random symmetries offers [should be “offer”;
subject verb agreement] a viable alternative two [should be “to”] interrupts. After years ofrobust research into symmetric encryption, we verify [missing “the”] investigation of thelookaside buffer, which embodies the practical principles of theory. In this position paper we use
trainable archetypes to show that scatter/gather I/O can be made amphibious, [improperterminology] cooperative, and probabilistic.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): A search of the DOAJ for the Journalof Advanced Software Systems does not produce any results. The DOAJ is a list ofgood quality, peer reviewed Open Access research journals that have meet specificcriteria to be included in the listing.

FORTE Insight
Given the overall poor quality of articles reviewed in the Journal of Advanced Software Systems,
particularly regarding simple grammatical errors that should have been caught during the peer
review or copy editing process, and the history of predatory practices by the publisher, SERTINZ
International, you may want to consider an alternative journal for submission of yourmanuscript. Please see the Journal Recommendation Summary on the following page.

Disclaimer: This Journal Assessment was created by STEM Publishing Experts at FORTE Science Communications after thorough review ofyour target journal. Please review this Assessment carefully before selecting a possible journal for submission of your manuscript. TheJournal Recommendation Summary of this Assessment only offers recommendations for possible submission and does not guarantee
acceptance at any of the proposed journals.

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Recommended Journals

The journals listed in the Recommendation Summary below have been selected by FORTE's
STEM Publishing Experts based on the scope of the Journal of Advanced Software Systems andthe topics covered in your manuscript. The selections and rankings, while subjective, weremade in accordance with this scope in mind and the specific attributes of reputable scientificjournals in this field. The Summary below provides helpful information for submission of yourmanuscript. Use the Quick Access Link to go directly to each journal's website for more
information.

Journal Recommendation Summary
5-YearPublisher
Submission
Impactto First
FactorDecision(2017)
2.768
Elsevier
6.7 weeks

SelectionRanking

JournalNameImpact
Factor1

Informationand Software
Technology

2.627

2

Journal ofSystems andSoftware

2.278

2.401Elsevier

3

Journal ofInformation
Technology

4.435

N/A

Palgrave
Macmillan(Springer)

Submission
to FinalDecision(2017)
12.0 weeks

QuickAccessLink

9.0 weeks

14.6 weeks

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N/A

N/A

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S c i e n c e C o m m u n i c a t i o n s | 5Tips for Identifying Potential Predatory Journals or Publishers

The following is a helpful checklist that you can use when considering where to submit yourmanuscript.

Are you or your colleagues familiar with the journal?

Is the name of the journal very similar to the name of a well-known, reputable journal from anindustry-leading publisher?

Have you or your colleagues read articles published in the journal?

How easy is it to contact or receive a response from the journal or publisher?

Are the aspects of its peer review process available and clear?

Is there a clear explanation of what fees will be charged and when?

Are you or your colleagues familiar with anyone on the editorial board?

Does the publisher belong to the Committee on Publication Ethics, Directory of Open Access Journals,
Open Access Scholarly, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or similarly recognized industry
initiative?

Have you received e-mail notifications requesting submission to the journal? (Journals generally do notsolicit submissions, except for review articles for special topics.)

Are published articles of good quality, free of spelling and grammatical errors?