How we judge a venue.

For every venue, we check and publish:

• Indexing — Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC-CARE: present or absent, and as of what date.
• Publication volume — articles per year, and the trend.
• Scope coherence — whether the subject range is consistent with the stated aims.
• Editorial board — whether the listed editors are verifiable, and whether any have publicly disclaimed their listing.
• Fees and timelines — stated APCs and stated review times, as published by the venue itself.

What we say, and what we don't.

We never collapse the two.

Where our data comes from

• Primary registries. Indexing status is checked against the registries themselves — not against a paper's own claims about where it is indexed.
• The venue's own published record. Fees, timelines, and aims are quoted from what the venue itself states publicly, as of the date we accessed it.
• Public disclaimers. Where an editor has publicly stated they do not serve on a board that lists them, we record it, with the source.
• Dated, always. Every fact we show carries the date we checked it. Registries change; our records say when we looked.