Open Air Publisher Offices

Today I was invited to contribute my research or review paper to the Journal of Genomics and Data Mining.  They gave me a deadline of August 10, 2018.  That is seven days away, so there's time.

The journal is published by Gavin Publishers. The owners of their numerous domains are not able to be seen, as they paid the extra scratch to keep that anonymous at GoDaddy. 

Their contact phone number started with (630). Wait, that's where I grew up.  

A quick visit to Google Earth (2018 image) reveals that this journal's international headquarters is on a dirt lot in what might someday be a Chicago suburban subdivision.  

5911 Oak Ridge Way is a dirt lot as of April 2018. 

Maybe the publisher owns the lot and if they get enough publication fees they can buy the skyscraper.  Check with zoning first, because that looks like a place for single-family residences.

As always, it looks like they are another pay-to-publish journal without the highest standards.  Maybe there is sufficient rigor.  

But authors should be soliciting journals for opportunities. If they are begging me for submissions in a week, it probably is not a place I would want to publish.