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Dear Anjay kumar Mishra,

Yes. Energy-efficient construction is an important element of the pro-environmental transformation of the economy and the implementation of sustainable development goals.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Ken Falculan ,

The journal “International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS)” ISSN 2220-8488 (Print), 2221-0989 (Online) (http://ijhssnet.com/) is published by “Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI)” (http://www.cpinet.info/ ) and this publisher is included in the Beall’s list of predatory publishers https://beallslist.net/ . This is a warning sign. There are more warning signs that this might be a predatory journal:

-There seems to be something odd with the ISSN numbers of the journal (just look at for example https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2221-0989)

-They ‘proudly’ present in the latest news (http://www.ijhssnet.com/journal/index/1790#ind) a DRJI indexing, which is a notorious example of so-called misleading metrics (https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/)

-See also http://flakyj.blogspot.com/search/label/CPI

-The indexing page misleadingly suggest a membership of DOAJ while they are not

So, I would say avoid this one.

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See the attached screenshot for details. David Booth

Implications are a logical construct

A Matter of Record: Documentary Sources in Social Research by John Scott, Documentary Film in India: An Anthropological History by Giulia Battaglia, Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film by Catalin Brylla, ‎Mette Kramer.

They are interrelated somehow.

There are two articles that show this gap from different perspectives and that can be complemented. One takes it from education in general and the other from education for health practice. I hope they serve you, best regards.

I am sharing updated list of Social Science Citation Index Sep. 2021

I am sharing updated list of Social Science Citation Index Sep. 2021

I am sharing updated list of Social Science Citation Index Sep. 2021

Dear Stephan, it is very important to publish during PhD program. It is a waste of time to have a PhD degree with no publication. PhD with publication is very good and gives one better opportunities in terms of jobs.

Dear Mohammed Jaafar Ali Alatabe,

Thanks and invite you to joint discussions on the subject of innovation in financial institutions.

Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

The SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic is a global epidemic. On a global scale, the state of the pandemic in March 2020 was announced by the World Health Organization. Therefore, this organization could declare the end of the pandemic. On the other hand, the end of the epidemic on a regional, national or local scale can be announced by national central institutions of the health care system, including the ministries of health, in agreement with the government. In order to be able to declare the end of the epidemic on a national, regional or local scale, it is necessary to have a relatively large decrease in the number of new coronavirus infections, a decrease in the number of people seriously ill with Covid-19 disease and deaths caused by this disease. The decrease in Coronavirus infections and in sick people should be sustained in a longer period, i.e. min. several months, taking into account the periods of possible occurrence of subsequent epidemic waves caused by new variants of the Coronavirus and occurring in other regions of the world. In addition, an important factor that may be taken into account in the event of declaring the end of a pandemic on a global scale or an epidemic on a regional scale will be the level of vaccination of citizens with highly effective vaccines against Coronavirus and the level of social, collective immunity of the society achieved thanks to these vaccines.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

H1 ordinal logistic regression

H2 ordinal logistic regression

Google this regression topic or see the attached course notes.

Best wishes, David Booth

In my opinion, the development of ICT and Industry 4.0 information technologies, the use of Internet remote communication, the increase in digitization and internationalization of communication processes taking place during the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic, the development of online social networks, e.g. the Research Gate portal increases the opportunities development of international cooperation in the world of science.

I invite you to the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Social networks are first case study of a successful interdisciplinary enterprise. The study of society and the relationships among persons within society is the subject of social sciences in general. Sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists frequently study how interpersonal relationships are formed and how behaviours, beliefs, and emotions are transmitted across connected individuals, and network analysis uses the different methods from science and computer science also.

Cronbach alphas are a measure of internal consistency for a given sample of an specific measure. When you have high internal consistency on subscales but low consistency on the overall scale, it may mean that the construct of the complete scale is not captured well by the subscales. In other words, you may find that a construct is multi rather than unidimensional. If this is the case, then sometimes you will have a low reliability coefficient for the whole scale but high reliability for subscales. This is because the subscales are measuring more specific dimensions of the construct. Also, if the subscales are not strongly correlated, you might also find that a higher order construct represented by the complete scale will show lower reliability. If I were you, I would run a factor analysis on the measure to assess its dimensionality. Of course, there are other reasons for low reliability, such as context. That is, the alpha coefficient is not an index of the reliability of the measure in general, but rather for the unique sample and context in which data were collected. This may be worth considering as well.

Cory

Hello Dear

In literary criticism, I would recommend the integral approach which means using different approaches wherever it is needed. These approaches include the psychological, historical, political, social etc. Best regards.

Hi Dr Dariusz Prokopowicz . It increases continuously with time.

Together with Jie Zhang we investigated a similar question for tourism and using data for that particular pillar of the WTO (commitments under tourism specifically). The paper is available under my profile - it is the one published in JITED in 2013. We found out that it is mainly small island economies that may have less to gain from trade liberalisation that are not members of this pillar (or in fact of the WTO in general). Over time you will have the problem that nearly all countries are members of the WTO, so then it becomes harder to investigate your hypothesis. Perhaps you need to look into more particular explanatory factors (as we did in our paper) to increase the reliability of the data you are using. Reverse causality will of course be another classical econometric problem that you are facing - but it could be fixed using a panel data approach. Some countries may also face the problem now with hyperglobalisation that their WTO membership has led to more trade but of the extensive growth type - e.g. China may be trading more and more with the rest of the world in quantities but not necessarily earning more from those exports over time. That leads us into the current global environmental trap we are in (drawing in more and more natural resources and emitting more and more CO2 without it leading to more welfare or value) - not unlike the one the Soviet Union faced before it imploded.

Hi Dr Dariusz Prokopowicz . Demographic change can influence the underlying growth rate of the economy, structural productivity growth, living standards, savings rates, consumption, and investment; it can influence the long-run unemployment rate and equilibrium interest rate, housing market trends, and the demand for financial assets. See the link:

Dear Muhammad Ali Khan I use all platforms so I personally recommend to use Microsoft Teams. It gives much better control to the teacher during online class.

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More remarkable revelations about fabrication of data in high profile behavioral economics studies. This time it took some painstaking and meticilous statistical sleuthing but the results are so unmistakable that none of the authors involved attempted to defend the studies. Their only defense is that they trusted Ariely with the data, who in turn says he trusted the insurance company that provided him with it. When you think of the enormous amount of glory, publicity, and money - book royalties, consultancy fees, grants etc - that went into behavioral economics as a result of studies such as these, it is hard not to lose faith in the field (nay social science!) as a whole. The open science movement is trying to devise reforms that will prevent that in the future, but us philosophers of social science should also think hard about how to reform our norms. We unknowingly reinforce bad trends whenever we dedicate our attention to flashy new findings. I'd love to hear if colleagues have views on what such norms should be.

Probably the best starting point is Diance Vaughan's (1999) "The Dark Side of Organization: Mistake, Misconduct and Disaster" in the Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 25: 271-305. It focuses in particular on the Challenger and Columbia disasters. Vaughan investigated the first and was on the committee of inquiry into the second. 

Let's understand the difference between epilogue and conclusion. Well Epilogues and conclusions work in the same way , however ,conclusions tend to be found in nonfiction books or papers related to science usually accompanied by an introduction chapter at the start of the book, whereas epilogues tend to be found in novels and memoirs. If your work is non fiction and science based then you should consider conclusion over epilogue. Hope this helps

Dear Ishaq Idris ,

Why don’t they assign a proper DOI to their published papers? Because it is not a good journal. They claim a DOI for their journal, misleadingly suggesting a link to the legit DOI organization (https://www.doi.org/). A DOI is a unique ID for a paper (warning: though a DOI is assigned to papers by virtually all well-respected journals it is by itself not enough to say that a journal is legit or not).

See my reply of August 30th, 2020, for further facts/observations why this a journal one better can avoid. Following a ‘whitelist’ approach this journal (and publisher) has no serious indexing (Scopus or Clarivate’s ESCI, SCIE/SSCI) and is no member of DOAJ or COPE etc.

Best regards.

PS. Nelson Yego indeed those that are quite positive have published one or more papers with them, indeed a ‘potential conflict of interest’.

RE: "In Islamic divine scripture – the Holy Qur’an - the emphasis is on the heart as being mentioned to be governing (the king for) both the rationality, emotions, intellect, intuition, telepathy [sic], etc."

Locating any kind of mental activity in the heart is just a carry-over from ancient Greek views that regarded the brain as merely an organ for cooling the blood. As it happens, there have numerous cases of individuals kept alive without a heart who continued to experience all kinds of mental activity. Here's a quotation from a news report on one such individual:

« "It was an emotional roller coaster," Larkin said at a news conference, describing what it was like to live with a totally artificial heart, implanted to keep him alive until a donor heart became available. » — from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-lived-555-days-without-a-heart-before-transplant/

Here's another such report:

Please go-ahead to gain your time.

Dear Asibul Islam Anik ,

If you mean whether it is a subsection of Nature, then the answer is no. It is a separate journal called “Humanities & Social Sciences Communications” https://www.nature.com/palcomms/about which is since June 16th, 2020, published by Springer Nature. It is one of the many journals belonging to Nature’s portfolio (https://www.nature.com/siteindex ), which when I am not mistaken used to be called Nature Publishing Group (NPG).

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El calentamiento global es un fenómeno físico q puede ocurrir al deterioro de la capa de ozono. Los científicos y expertos buscaran una solución para conservar la vida en el planeta Tierra. Por ahora debemos protegernos de los rayos solares y el cuidado del medio ambiente.

Here, you can find several hands-on courses on panel data using Stata:

Prof. Imam Uddin Mahar: Please see the folwoing journal: ^{https://journals.ju.edu.jo/DirasatHum}

The problem that I usually face that there are some journals that claim on their sites that they are Scopus-indexed while they aren't. On the other hand, other journals hide the facts by saying some tricks like Scopus (2020) or Scopus (2013).

For instance, one of the journals says at its main portal that it is indexed in Scopus. But I don't find it on the Scopus list. I have written many emails to them, they always ignoring me!

The attached file is an Excel sheet that contains the last updated list. You can download the last version anytime by click on "Scopus source list" from the Scopus portal: https://www.scopus.com

Thank you!

What is your area of specialization ? There are a lot of fake journals. So you have to be very careful. Thank you.

Hello,

Yes, a historical mapping of academic disciplines now exists: the "Interactive Historical Atlas of the Disciplines". This website, recently launched at the University of Geneva, is available in open access here:

It is an interactive atlas containing a collection of more than 200 disciplinary maps ("classifications of the sciences" or "knowledge maps") from Antiquity to our time, with thousands historical definitions of academic disciplines extracted from sources. Moreover, it includes several analysis tools (timeline, statistical tools with the ability to chart the evolution of a discipline, iconographic database, advanced search filters). For instance, it is possible to display chronologically a list of historical definitions of an academic discipline in order to study the evolution of its identity over time. The aim of this project is to map the evolution of the disciplinary borders throughout the centuries, and to reconstruct the genealogy of the sciences.

As for a "typology" of the various types of disciplinary systems (namely, the different taxonomic systems underlying these historical "classifications of the sciences"), you could find some insights in my recent paper:

Sandoz, Raphaël (2021), "Thematic Reclassifications and Emerging Sciences", Journal for General Philosophy of Science 52(1), pp. 63–85, available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-020-09526-2.

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Dear Taban Ahmed ,

Your question is about the journal “Social Sciences” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci). But it is in essence a question about the publisher behind the journal. This is a recurring discussion here on RG. It boils down to two opposing views where people either like the publishing model of MDPI or not. What puzzles me in this discussion is that arguments that often are used to argue that a journal is predatory (no DOAJ, no serious indexing, no transparency in costs etc. etc.) all of a sudden does not seems to apply for MDPI journals (at least not for those disliking MDPI). Facts are:

-The journal IS a DOAJ member

-The journal IS Scopus indexed (CiteScore 2.3)

-The journal IS WoS indexed (in ESCI for journals eligible for an impact factor by Clarivate)

-Many more indexing and directories like EBSCO, ERIH Plus, SHERPA/RoMEO etc.

-The journal DOES provide transparent info about costs etc.

The publisher MDPI managed to get 160 of their journals indexed in WoS and Scopus. So, based on facts they are not predatory. See for thorough (and unbiased) analysis of this publisher:

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Kitchen Stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Stories

GOPINATH, M.; BATARSEH, F. A.; BECKMAN, J. Machine Learning in gravity models: an application to agricultural trade: NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES. Cambridge, MA: [s.n.]. <http://www.nber.org/papers/w27151>.

Very nicely explained Renaud Di Francesco Thank you.

Very useful discussion. I remember, the saying "it is better to study one rat for 1000 hrs rather than studying 1000 rats for one hr if you need to study behaviors of rats". But that particular rat should be selected carefully; not to choose a 'mad' or 'disabled' rat. Now by studying this carefully selected rat (theoretical sampling) we can generalize certain behavioral patterns of rats, as well as can gain a deep understanding of the behavior of rats, in that time and space. Observing 1000 rats, randomly or even purposively (statistical sampling), for one hour would help to identify a single or couple of features of rats, in that particular context. So, the sampling technique depends on the nature (not the purpose) of the research.

Dear Fatema Miah,

Thank you very much for your answer regarding various aspects and determinants of the development of science.

Thank you, Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Certainly..I love my profession

Dear Dr. László Vértesy , thank you for the thought provoking question.

Advantages of a decreasing population

Long term benefits

1. Will bring better balance among the living beings/organisms.

2. Extinction of Religions and Gods

3. People will celebrate life. I think there will be no artificial, man-made death in the name of God(s), Religion, Nationality etc.,

4. People will die only by natural causes. The reaming few (People) will support each other to save the life other every other person.

Short term benefits

1. Less pollution, Lesser need for food, land and other resources.

2. More pet animals are saved from the harassment of humankind and live in their natural habitat. They may live happily (may be unhappily at times) with their Father, Mother, Sisters, Brothers and could escape from the confinement.

Disadvantages of a decreasing population

1. Long term impact - Extinction of Languages, Culture, Food Choices

2. Short term impact - Economy will shrink, more unemployment, population will have fewer young people supporting huge number of elders.

3. The streets, seemingly empty streets, buildings etc., may look devilish.

Some useful links:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12811197#:~:text=A%20study%20using%20census%20data,set%20for%20extinction%2C%20say%20researchers.&text=The%20result%2C%20reported%20at%20the,out%20altogether%20in%20those%20countries.

Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to share my views.

Best wishes and regards

Yoganandan

Treating the subject of the "Genesis of human creativity" means that creativity has a very specific task, where the "necessary light" to be creative resides within the being of our own essence. Each being has an "internal light" within himself, a light that has always led him to reflection when he perceives the priority interest in something that attracts him. In fact, when perceiving that light, raised by reason, or by the moment of reasoning, we do not want to reach and search for anything else, but to know how to make "go out", or rather, how to get out that "source of light" that we leads to "be creative". However, imagination always precedes us. In fact, "reason" serves to guide us towards a search for the "source" of the same moment granted to the imagination. "Human creativity" begins where knowledge of these preliminary steps ends, and that is when "knowledge itself" is "reborn" of creativity. The current perception of the crisis, due to Covid-19, adds to the same "light" a generalized feeling of "fear", "instability and a" feeling of illness ", underlining in our consciousness a feeling of vulnerability and fragility that goes walking by our side as if they were constants of "human individuality", that is why human creativity can suffer fluctuations in the moments in which we perceive that we are creative.

Thank you Sharmin Nipa Maam.

Thank tou. I'll have a look.

In my opinion, the current fourth technological revolution is just beginning. Evidence to support this thesis is the ongoing progress in the creation of new advanced technologies Industry 4.0 and their applications in industry, in improving the offering and implementation of services, in improving the organization and functioning of economic entities and financial and public institutions, in improving the management processes of these entities, etc.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Both are important for gaining different kinds of knowledge.

The following research paper might be a relevant:

Few other articles of mine are related to social science issues in developing countries context.

Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. A sage University paper series. This is an excellent collection of 175 brief volumes addressing quantitative topics such as Regression, Models, Data Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Experimental Design, Factor Analysis, Measurement, ANOVA, Survey Data, and many more areas of interest to faculty and students alike.. I had the entire series and lent them to students on a borrow one, return one arrangement.

Dear do read my reply and have a look at: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/60824

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In the scope of the above-mentioned issues, I propose the following topic: Determinants of the possibility of efficient implementation of the pro-ecological transformation of the traditional economy to a sustainable, green circular economy. When the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic expires, the aforementioned pro-ecological transformation of the economy should become one of the strategic goals of the development of civilization in order to avoid the negative scenario of a global climate crisis that may occur in several dozen years. The determinants of the pro-ecological transformation of the economy include the processes of implementing the sustainable development goals, pro-ecological reforms of implementing eco-innovations in economic processes, including the development of renewable energy sources, etc. Another determinant is pro-environmental state interventionism, including co-financing by the state of the process of pro-ecological transformation of the energy sector. In addition, the issue of pro-environmental awareness of citizens. In order to increase the pro-environmental awareness of citizens, information and educational programs should be developed in various media, including new online media.

Greetings,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Check https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/49260/towardnonexperim00farr.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

The University of Wisconsin still operates the County Health Rankings / County Health Facts page supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. You can download a tremendous amount of county-level data from their website at the following link: https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/explore-health-rankings/rankings-data-documentation

There are download links to various formats (.xlsx, .csv, and for SAS).

Although they do not expressly call their income inequality measure the Gini Coefficient, you may be able to use it. Feel free to look at their description below this response. Also, you can use their website to find data from the last several years by U.S. County. You may find some of their other variables useful.

[BELOW TEXT IS VERBATIM FROM THEIR DIGGING DEEPER TABLE]

Income Inequality is a Ratio

Income Inequality is the ratio of household income at the 80th percentile to that at the 20th percentile, i.e., when the incomes of all households in a county are listed from highest to lowest, the 80th percentile is the level of income at which only 20% of households have higher incomes, and the 20th percentile is the level of income at which only 20% of households have lower incomes. A higher inequality ratio indicates greater division between the top and bottom ends of the income spectrum.

Numerator

The numerator is the 80th percentile of median household income in a county. Income, defined as “total income,” is the sum of the amounts reported separately for wage or salary income; net self-employment income; interest, dividends, or net rental or royalty income or income from estates and trusts; Social Security or Railroad Retirement income;  Supplemental Security Income (SSI); public assistance or welfare payments; retirement, survivor, or disability pensions; and all other income. Receipts from the following sources are not included as income: capital gains, money received from the sale of property (unless the recipient was engaged in the business of selling such property); the value of income “in kind” from food stamps, public housing subsidies, medical care, employer contributions for individuals, etc.; withdrawal of bank deposits; money borrowed; tax refunds; exchange of money between relatives living in the same household; gifts and lump-sum inheritances, insurance payments, and other types of lump-sum receipts.

Denominator

The denominator is the 20th percentile of median household income in a county."

First, I think it's preferable to use the words "coefficient alpha" rather than "Cronbach's alpha", even though the latter is far more common. Even Lee Cronbach himself was embarrassed that people attributed the metric to him. The following article might be helpful with regard to that:

Cho, E., & Kim, S. (2015). Cronbach’s coefficient alpha: Well known but poorly understood. Organizational Research Methods, 18(2), 207–230. https://doi.org/10.1177/ 1094428114555994

Second, I think it's important to realise that, as Cortina pointed out (ref below), alpha is highly dependent on the number of items involved and is certainly not an indication of homogeneity among items. This is often indicated by two or more separate factors on a construct having alpha values in the mid .80s but, when combined, having an alpha above .90.

Cortina, J. M. (1993). What is coefficient alpha? An examination of theory and applications. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78(1), 98–104. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.78.1.98

In my experience, high alpha values are often (but not always) obtained with items that have a quite high degree of redundancy.

When there are fewer than 10 items involved, I think it can be quite OK to have an alpha less than .80.

Rather than relying (solely) on alpha values, I think it's often (more) useful to look at interitem correlations. I would allow some exceptions to their advice, but Clark and Watson recommend that these correlations lie between .15 and .50 - at least for unidimensional scales.

Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. (1995). Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development. Psychological Assessment, 7(3), 309–319. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.7.3.309

The RG master list includes journals from 3 databases: WoS, SCOPUS, DOAJ

Dear Vladimir Rotkin,

No. The discussion was not over. The overwhelming majority of the topics discussed in my Research Gate profile are still relevant and the discussions are open. Yes you are right. The issue of varieties of "analytical" artificial intelligence is also important. You added an important point to our discussion.

Thank you, Have a nice day, Stay healthy! Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Very Intersting question and answers.

Anarchy = disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority

Order (has many meanings) = an authoritative command, direction, or instruction.

Order (noun) = the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method

We can say Order and Anarchy are antonyms if consider the word 'order' as noun.

Otherwise 'order' also a kind of 'rule'

For your 1st question order is processing in specified manner. Anarchy is orderless.

As per my knowledge everything in Universe is governed by certain laws, so we may not see Anarchy in Universe and Nature.

Anarchy following rules means yes, politically 'imposing restrictions/unfavourble conditions'.

If come to 'Anarchy as part of order' only for those who imposing Anarchy feel that is part of order.

Anarchy a change maker- certainly all Freedom moments raise beacuse of Anarchy, ultimately changes come.

Parameters- we can specify all laws come under this because they instrcut something to follow.

Observations- ---

Dear Vera Graovac Matassi ,

Very good observation. Having a closer look at the ISSN numbers there is indeed another journal with the same title. One with ISSN number 2326-9863 corresponding to http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/index?journalid=202 a journal published by SciencePG (Science Publishing Group), a publisher known as predatory (among many other reasons also included in the Beall’s list: https://beallslist.net/ ). So, indeed predatory and better avoid.

When it comes to Social Sciences ISSN number 2076-0760 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci all I can add to my previous reply is that they are now indexed in ESCI (which is the indexing for journals eligible for an impact factor once they are included in the SCIE of Clarivate).

Best regards.

Sometimes it is necessary, for instance, as Michael Uebel writes in his answer.

I visit this journal and observe the following:

Firstly, The journal do not state the processing & publishing fee openly so is one of habit of predictory journal

Secondly, The Journal do not state about publishing ethics

Thirdly, The Journal does not explained well about the qualifications of Reviewers & Editors

So through this observations I don't like to publish in this journal ( predictory Journal). Thank you

I think yes

Dear Lalit Gehlot ,

As said by Rodney Duffett be careful with this one. Looking at their site: https://www.eimctemess.org/index.html I see (when scrolling down) a lot of suspicious (known as misleading metrics: ) logo’s like CiteFactor, DRJI and meaningless ones like DOAJ and Elsevier (I mean meaningless in the sense why are they added. Are they linked to Elsevier? Member of DOAJ? I don’t think so).

Still, it might be a good initiative. I suggest you contact Prof. Juan Arias Masa (Chair), according to their site he is a member of the organizing committee. He is here on RG and it might be a good idea to ask him about this. If he is aware of this and is willing to link his name to this it might be a legit organization.

Best regards.