GIS Business: Dissection of a "Swiss" UGC approved journal
An investigation into the credibility of a so-called "UGC Approved journal for publication of research papers related to planning, management, GIS, geography, geology, geoinformatics, earth sciences, remote sensing, satellites, GPS, coordinate systems, urban planning, spatial studies, human settlements, and many more related subjects" namely, GIS Business (ISSN 1430-3663) by Sanjo Jose, College Librarian, St Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur, Kerala, India. GIS Business, which is indexed in Scopus, clearly proved to be a predatory journal, brought out by a zombie publisher called "ABC verlag", which ceased to exist in 1989. Watch video for more...