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A strange one from Cassie here. She wants me to collaborate on paper publications. Is she referring to old skool print-on-paper? Probably not, in this instance it's more likely that she means paper in terms of an academic article rather than the medium.
Another new, to me, predatory publisher comes in the guise of Neli Parker peddling Journal of Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Apparently, its editorial board members are impressed with my work, as the quality of the article is high and found informative. That's nice to hear, and I guess it's why it got accepted by a publishing house that doesn't have to walk the streets for money, unlike The Police's Roxanne and Fortune Journal's Neli Parker.
Sakura has heard of my exemplary research in gastroenterology and hepatology, which comes as news to me. I have no idea what she's talking about, unless she's referring to my ongoing research into pies 'n' beer.
The formatting of the message and the To and Subject headers are the same as Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences. The email address is different though, as is the fake US correspondence address on the website. So this may be the same outfit, but may not.
I've no idea who publishes Journal of Medical Care Research and Review. Or International journal of Nursing Didactics for that matter. The website doesn't divulge that information. But I'm assuming they're as until now unknown to me.
I have to admit to some confusion when I received an invitation to attend a conference in Hungary that has been a platform for researchers to expand their networks and stay updated with the latest developments in agricultural and biological sciences since 2015. The reason for this confusion was that, other than me having nothing to do with agricultural sciences that I'm aware of, the time zone and tracking image of my correspondent suggest she's based in China, not Hungary. Why would the Chinese be disorganising a Hungarian conference? (confused)
This one's unusual. The recipient email address is mine, obviously, but the salutation is neither to me nor no one I've ever heard of, as is often the case. Instead it's to a co-author with whom I published once, years ago. He was neither the first-named, senior, nor corresponding author, so fuck knows how or why they got his name. But there you go. (shrug)
There's something about skeevy Indian hoes and their predilection for taking on Catholic-sounding names to westernise themselves. In this case, it's the risible-sounding Maria Teresa, the saint of the slums no doubt.
Spewing out template missives for predatory webcomics and events, to harvested lists of email addresses of people who're antipathetic to you and your cause, can't be a fulfilling career. And given the money-grubbing nature of the people who run these schemes, I can't imagine the pay's too great either.
Anne Allen reaches out from HSPI proudly welcoming all the participants for the upcoming global experts on health from around the world. The cause of this excitement is Global Summit on Public Health 2024. (snooze)
Most predatory publishers who've shat into my mail inbox are based in India, but pretend to be in the US. Tara Zheng, on the other hand, eschews such nonsense. She's Chinese, in China, and isn't afraid to own it.
I'm not sure whether globlconfs.com is associated with one of the many predatory conference disorganisers that I've had the misfortune to come across before, or whether they're a new entity. Their website wasn't responding, but WHOIS indicates that the domain was registered in only April of this year, and the server is based in the city of Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India. Quelle surprise!
Located at 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958, Country [sic] of Sussex, in the good ol' USofA, Prime Pubmed describes itself asA Open Access Publisher With A Focus On Science, Technology, And Medicine, Prime Pubmed publication Is Committed To Helping The Biomedical Community With Its Activities. Sounds marvellous; although I suspect that helping the biomedical community with its activities amounts to little more than spewing PDF files onto a garbage website in exchange for mucho moolah, a sort of money for old rope proposition.
A new entry in the litany of predatory publishing outfits shits into my inbox: ScieniQ Publishers. They're headquartered at 264 E Honeysuckle Pl, Chandler, AZ 85286, USA and are there for all the research and development journals dontchaknow? These include not only Advance [sic] Medical and Clinical Research, the webcomic on behalf of which Jessica K is pestering me, but also Journal of Nursing and Researchers [sic]. (LOL)
I have no idea how Susan comes into this, but Caroline Kelly's keen for me to attend the International Conference on Nutrition, Obesity, and Diabetes Research. I'm less keen, largely because I have no clue about any of this shit; unless shoving pies and beer into my gob counts as research into nutrition and obesity, in which case things are going swimmingly.
Another irrelevant webcomic offering to waive the APC fees; DOI charges applicable, naturally. Try as I might, I couldn't find any information as to the APC on the comic's website, only this reference to submission fees, which are not the same thing at all: There is no submission fee charged to authors. Irrelevant at best, because no journal charges a fee to submit; potentially deliberately misleading at worst, because upon acceptance they'll stiff you with the APC fee.
Only a week after being introduced to Med Discoveries LLC, thanks to Ella Perry, William Henry comes in from another predatory publisher I'd never heard of before: MedDocs Publishers LLC. The company's stated address is Reno, NV, although stated and actual aren't necessarily the same thing.
Annals of Marine Science is another Peertechz quality webcomic leaching out of Hyderabad. I'm going to assume that my correspondent westernised her name to Raquel Clapp by happenstance, and without knowing that the clap is a colloquialism for gonorrhoea. Nevertheless, I really can't think of any name more apt for a sex worker. (LOL)
I think this outfit may be a new one to me. The openaccesspublisher.com domain suggests a PDF spewer, not a conference disorganiser, but some predators will turn their hand to anything to con a buck or two. The dbcmed.info domain seems to be unsecured. But these are only the email addresses. The link is to clinmedconferences.com which exists, and ClinMed Conferences claims to be based in Wilmington, DE.
We're not yet halfway through 2023, and already Mindspace Conferences are thinking ahead over a year to Traditional Medicine 2024. Talk about wishing our lives away. Then again, a visit to Milan is something to be looked forward to.
A new to me predatory publisher, Reseapro Publishing Group, craps into my inbox. And with it another invitation to waste my time, doing the work of the staff not employed by RPG, who'd rather maximise profits by scoring pro bono work from the academic community.
According to her email's subject line, Faith Arnold has issued her first reminder for me to utilise her services, although I have no recollection of her contacting me before now. Oh, of course, this is a generic template hosted on a campaign sever. And her missive found its way into my junk mail folder, not because it met any filtering rules that I'd set after seeing it before, but because SpamAssassin awarded it a score of 12.9, from a required score of 4.0, based solely on generic rules; which suggests she's punching way above her weight.
Some thoughtless bastard has apparently recommended me as a potential reviewer to Bentham Science Publishers, to peer-review a manuscript presumably below the standard to be accepted by a publisher who values scientific merit over money. Or have they? I've received requests such as this before, and I suspect they pull the list of potential reviewers from the same source as that of potential submitters; i.e. scraped from the web.
Rebecca Williams comes in from Austin Journal of Invitro [sic] Fertilization. I may know little about the journal's subject area, but I do know that invitro is in vitro. You'd think that a senior editor would get this shit right.* (SMH)
I've really only associated the Indian subcontinent with four things: corruption; curry; cheap fast fashion; and unsolicited commercial email. Predatory publishers conflate the first and last of these, in a sense, by defiling the academic record for financial gain. And now Amalle Wiles also conflates the third, as (s)he solicits my contributions on the subject of fashion technology and textile engineering. Although (s)he's keen, desperate, or deluded, if any article I could present were considered to be of the highest priority. I have to admit, the sight of that presumptuous red exclamation mark in my inbox pissed me off.
As a webcomic title, Case Reports in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive [sic] makes no sense; reproductive what? I have no experience in case reports, other than reading a few, and they're pretty bloody tedious. I have even less experience in OB/GYN. Nevertheless, I'd like to know what reproductives Albie's concerned about.
Nuzhat Gul has reached out to me to be a guest editor for Current Pharmaceutical Design. I freely admit to knowing phuquall about the subject, but I guess that still amounts to more than she does anyway. So, why not? As any Disney executive will tell you, money is always money; which is why they take the red pen to stunning and brave for Chinese and Islamic markets.
Yet another low-energy case reports urinal, claiming to be based in the USA, but with an Indian time zone [cough]. Ironically enough, CICR gives its mailing address in Chesterton, IN, as 364 Indian Boundary Road. At least they have a sense of humour.
The remarkable innovations being made in the field of biomedical research are quite the thing at gOATse, for both Brianne Miller and Christine Davies shat into my inbox within the space of a couple of minutes! Their templates are nigh on identical, although their From and Reply-To headers are unique.
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