Dear Sir/Madam,
please help me to vanish these title, abstract and DOI number because we DID NOT publish this article on this website by Austin Journal of Musculosceletal Disorders (this is a PREDATORY or FAKE journal!).
Please vanish ALL the information from Research Gate.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Paulina Fatyga
Dear Paulina Fatyga ,
You address your question to the general RG community (and not to the RG team). You can look at the “Help Center” link you find at the right bottom. I suppose you mean https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358230411_How_Nutritional_Status_and_Body_Composition_Affect_Physical_Performance_of_Older_Adults The good news is that you are not linked to the name mentioned (the paper is also not included in your publication list). The only one who has her name linked is Anna Skalska (if she is not linked to this paper, she can easily indicate that she is not the author).
The DOI is not linked (yet) to any paper so it is hard to see who are the real authors. As far as I can see this paper is just generated automatically by the RG search engine with the info provided by this (indeed suspicious) publisher.
Best regards.
Dear Rob Keller,
on Anna Skalska profile (when she logs by herself) this article is not listed (strange, because I see it when I look on the list of her articles when I log by myself). We both tried to unlink the article from her profile - we failed. There is probably some technical problem. I didnot find the information how to solve this problem on HelpCenter - I think this is a work for IT specjalist of Research Gate.
In general - we both want to vanish the title, abstract and our names and surnames connections with this article, because we want to publish it elsewhere.
It is of high importance for us both, prof Skalska is my promotor of my doctoral thesis so we are linked to each other in the field of research and she is responsible for the doctoral thesis and my publications as well.
I also cannot find any contact to IT specjalist of Research Gate to as him for help.
So, if you could contact me with IT worker who can delete all this traces of the title and abstract - I would be extremely grateful.
We are in despair indeed because we worked on this article for a long time.
Best regards,
Paulina Fatyga
ps. Austin Journal is predatory journal (Bell's list) , they are not on JCR list, but they have false information about IF on their website, they publish our article on their website without our permission.
Dear Paulina Fatyga ,
Strange indeed, I see the paper on her list (see screenshot). There are a number of issues (by the way she has two profiles A. ... and Anna. ...):
-As I suspected the paper is yours and during the process of submission you requested for withdrawal?
-Part of being predatory is that such publishers don’t respect the guidelines of (scientific) publishing. In other words, it will be hard (and a bit of hoping for the best) whether they will acknowledge your request for withdrawal
-The promising thing is that (so far) they have not published the paper (the link with the DOI runs a 404 error and it also doesn't show up here https://austinpublishinggroup.com/musculoskeletal-disorders/online-first.php )
Not sure what Research Gate can do in this matter (as long as the publisher claims there is a paper) but you can try to contact RG's support team at https://www.researchgate.net/contact or by email ([email protected] ) to see if they can help you in this matter.
Best regards.
Thank you for the answer.
Firstly, they published (without out permisson) the article on the website - so that there is this DOI number, and after our interventions - they removed the article from the website, so that you cannot find it, bo still this DOI number is present on Research Gate and abstract.
So now we are trying to remove all the information from research gate about this article and remove this DOI number.
Best regards,
Paulina Fatyga
Dear Paulina Fatyga ,
I see, the good news is that it seems that you managed to get the paper withdrawn (as indicated in my previous reply this is not always respected by these fraudsters). I think that indeed the next step is to contact the RG team.
Telling them your story and stress that the DOI link is no longer working (and possibly you have a letter where this ‘publisher’ confirms the withdrawal which you can include).
Good luck and all the best with getting your manuscript accepted in another journal.
Best regards.
- Badges
- Science topic