Dear All,
Today I received an email from a Journal of Scientia Ricerca.
Dear Dr. Karim A,
Warm Greetings from Scientia Ricerca!
Hope you are doing well!
We would like to write on behalf of Innovative Techniques in Agriculture (ISSN: 2575-5196) journal based on your expertise and professionalism in the field of Agriculture.
We are delighted to welcome your precious article (Research/ Review/ Mini-Review/ Case Report/ Short Communication etc.) towards the upcoming issue of Innovative Techniques in Agriculture (ITAG) Journal.
Please have a glance at the below link to view the latest articles http://scientiaricerca.com/itag-articles.php B|E|N|E|F|I|T|S
Scientia Ricerca desires to publish quality research and ensures authors with:
· Fast and efficient online submission.
· Timely Updates about your manuscript status.
· Prompt and fair double blinded peer review from experts
· Online tracking of articles submitted.
· Increased visibility of the research work.
Please submit your manuscript at www.scientiaricerca.com/submit-manuscript.php We look forward to receive your valuable article on/before November 30, 2018 for publication in the upcoming issue.
Thank you,
Best Regards, Sarah Taylor, Associate Managing Editor, Innovative Techniques in Agriculture, E-mail: [email protected] Website: scientiaricerca.com
See
https://clinicallibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers/
The said name is in Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers.
It is also Dolos list
https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list
Anas is correct.
Predatory journals follow more or less the same pattern of inviting research articles. I don't have any knowledge of such invitation from the authentic journals. So, blocking such mails or marking them as spam is the best treatment.
There are heaps of predatory journals. They mention that they are indexed in some popular indexes like cross ref, Google scholar etc. If they are predatory, why are not they punished, blocked? How they get such indexing?
For neophyte researchers, it is very difficult to publish in good journals and so are prone to predatory journals.
Got exactly the same email as Shravanti today. Did a brief google search and they have been sending out these emails since at least 2017 without a change in text. It is surely predatory. They first invite you, then have horrendous page charges. I would always be wary if you receive an invitation to publish in a journal you have never heard of. If it was legitimate, a colleague would email you and invite you to contribute, e.g. to a special issue. Legitimate journals rarely send out invitations themselves.
Dear Aqleem Abbas ,
Indeed (still) in 2021 this publisher “Scientia Ricerca” is mentioned, as was indicated by Subir Bandyopadhyay already in 2018, in the Beall’s list: https://beallslist.net/ this is a red flag for dealing with a potentially predatory publisher. Other red flags are:
-Prominent mentioning of fake metrics like CiteFactor, ISI indexing, see for more examples of misleading metrics: https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/
-Mentioning of meaningless (and misleading) logo’s like Thompson Reuter ID, first of all the impact factor used to be from Thomson Reuters but is now owned by Clarivate, second the Researcher ID has nothing to do with journals but with individual researchers
- “An Article Publication Charge of 1299 USD for Research/Review/Case Report” as mentioned in their publication charges info is ridiculously high for a journal without a single serious indexing.
As indicated by Shravanti Joshi and Daniela E. Winkler this is without a doubt a predatory journal from a predatory publisher to stay away from.
Best regards.
I got exactly the same invite today, in June 2021. Thanks everyone for posting the comments. It was very helpful to read them.
Got the exact mail today. I wonder why they are using ditto language. Not even a single word is changed.
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