Dear colleagues,
The Dolos list team is extracting domain names from all predatory journals and publishers added to the list. The resulting database will be made available to institutional and private email box providers so that the email advertisements sent by parasitic publishers can be automatically classified as spam. This is not yet perfectly the case. This service will be regularly updated and will be completely free for institutions and email boxes providers.
Best regards,
Alexandre.
Fantastic initiative, many thanks! My morning routine, along with coffee, includes (since years) the manual deletion of predatory emails from my inbox. It will be wonderful to finally end this. This will save innumerable cumulative hours to each one of us scientists.
Fantastic initiative, many thanks! My morning routine, along with coffee, includes (since years) the manual deletion of predatory emails from my inbox. It will be wonderful to finally end this. This will save innumerable cumulative hours to each one of us scientists.
The database has been created. It is freely accessible here:
https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/data
My team will regularly update this database, registering new items following the old ones in the database.
If you have suggestions to better make this database available to email box providers, please contact my team here:
https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/contact
Small clarification: When I asked the team members to manually extract all the domain names (not the urls, just the domain names) of each item from the list, they were surprised. In fact, since some predatory publishers did not have a website but just a Facebook page (or other website without a proper domain name), it was necessary to filter everything and check each item one by one. I did not check everything myself, but I quickly looked at the first elements. It looks like they have done a good job, despite all the work that the Dolos list already asked them for. But that's not finished. Now, we will have to work with institutional and private email box providers :)
Highly recommended! I get flooded with crappy journals listing their credentials only to discover they are self-made. It is particularly rampant in India and it seems the source of most of my spam.
I totally agree with the previous comments. I wish somebody will similarly deal with the never ending invitations to deliver lectures at very dodgy and incredibly expensive meetings. One ends up paying hundreds of dollars to make a presentation or give a lecture- scam. This has been a problem in the entertainment industry. Thousands of festivals exploiting poor aspiring film makers. Now it has come into the academic area. It should be weeded out.
Siva
Excellent idea for the resilient generation one need "An Open Call Out Peer Forum Programme " too. Keep good works going.
@Velibor Spalevic
Predatory journals lists: https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/
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