Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja

The manuscript submitted before the warning has not been accepted yet. I never expected this journal to be warned, especially since there are few instances of warnings in the field of economics. However, everything seems to be a coincidence. Last year, the journal did publish a batch of messy papers, which may have been due to collaboration with intermediaries, leaving no way out for self-submitted authors. However, I believe the warning will be removed next year, and I still have high hopes for this journal. (By the way, it is really questionable about the authority of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to issue a warning to this journal, considering that many high-impact journals like Frontiers and Hindawi have not been warned. Additionally, this year, the Chinese Academy of Sciences promoted several Quartile 4 journals to Quartile 1, suggesting that no matter what Chinese people do, it always ends up as a trade-off or a pork distribution.)

In the past month, I got close with the editor, but then got rejected. Just like the story of the old man who lost his horse, this journal was later warned by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2023).