Dear Colleagues
Everyday, when i open my email, i find at least 10 to 15 invitations for manuscript submission from predatory journals. It became a daily routine to clean my inbox from this junk and sometimes important emails get lost in the middle. I am wondering if you know an effective method to stop or decrease receiving these emails.
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I agree with Reporting and blocking them and eventually they no longer become an iissue. But, even here adequate care needs totake because you might one day blook an acceptance letter
report them as spam, and they will be automatically sent to spam next time.
I do this and I rarely receive them now in my inbox.
Yeah, classifying them as junk partly helps, but it is Sisyphean task, there is sooooo many of these journals, and new spam messages continue to come, despite you block some. Seems they create tens of such journals per day. Blocking the phrases like "Greetings of the Day" and "Hello Doctor" was of some help, but I ended up with blocking "open access" phrase and missed a some important messages, lol.
I trained my spamfilter on a few of them about ten years ago and since then it has reliably distinguished them from legit invitations. Not 100%, but close enough for me. The few times it misses one or misdiagnoses a legit one, I mark them accordingly and have peace and quiet for a long time until the next glitch.
Many researchers, particularly those from developing countries are scapegoats for predatory journals. They need more experience in choosing the well-kown journals. If it happens that one receives such invitations, he/she has to neglect them.I might suggest that the renowned academic journals are not involved in sending such invitations.
Predatory journals do a lot more than provide publishing commercial outlets for journals of dubious quality.
They also SPAM many unsuspecting recipients.
It is virtually impossible to prevent SPAM.
Delete and ignore.
Predatory journals' e-mails have some patterned text features. I think that it is possible to create an algorithm that automatically detects those mails if someone study this "text fingerprint".
Every predatory journals' e-mail has similar wording and words, relatively simple. These include "We are happy to", "I appreciate your" or "sharing it to the scientific", something like that.
If some AI specialist pays attention to such "text fingerprints", it will be relatively easy to build an algorithm.
I agree with Reporting and blocking them and eventually they no longer become an iissue. But, even here adequate care needs totake because you might one day blook an acceptance letter
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