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Notes
1. https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/submission, which also claims that “ … the European Scientific Journal (ESJ) has risen into a mega journal, especially in the publishing of scientifically sound content. A core element of distinction in ESJ is how it strives to reduce the timeframe of the selection of a reviewer and first decision through a highly structured editorial board”. Notably, ESJ is also on Beall’s list of “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals” https://web.archive.org/web/20170111172309/https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/.
2. This is almost like how a student’s essay would be graded in schools, with an emphasis on structure rather than the punchline or intellectual significance. The combined numerical score generated by such a manuscript scoring method may not be truly reflective of the academic worth of the manuscript’s core content.