I keep receiving e-mails from a "Dr. A Lesnevskyi M.D." from a so-called Internal Medicine Review journal. The journal has now several issues dating back March 2016. I checked the doi (digital object identifier) of some articles and most of them are not registered in Crossref. However, I was really surprised that a couple of articles were in Crossref. It is written in the website that they are indexed in Pubmed (National Library of Medicine (PubMed) ID: 101691967), but I was not able to find a single article there. Their ISSN numbers are fake, I was not able to find them in the ISSN portal (https://portal.issn.org/). A two story building at 712 H St NE Washington DC 20002 is the location of Gold Spot, a payday loan and check cashing business. The website uses the same fake address.
A little piece of advice if you are thinking in sending a polite reply that you are not interested: It is not a good idea to reply to any predatory publisher, even if it is to decline their offer or ask them to stop emailing you. They can then sell your email contact as a verified address to other publishers. Always block or mark as junk.
I wonder if all these "papers" published there are actual studies or fabricated texts only to embellish the website and attract more researchers willing to pay for a publication, with fees ranging from US$ 799 to US$ 2,999. For me this is clearly a predatory, fraudulent, fake journal.
I worry that things only seem to be getting worse. The number of emails I receive that are not originally marked as spam must be in the order of 10-20 per day.
Is anyone aware of a free online blacklist? From what I understand, Cabell's blacklist requires payment.
Spam from no name journals and obscure science conferences are annoying. You should flag them as spam as soon as they arrive. My filter removes about 10-20 a day.
The line cannot be so easily drawn nowadays... The amount of email requests by predatory fake journals increases with every submission at "renowned" journals I make. The obviously automatically created texts often include title, keywords and abstracts, as well as the complete list of author names. The suggestion is appealing that either the servers of the journals and publishers are being hacked to get the data, or worse that the publishers (or someone in the chain of production) are actively selling the contact data for additional money. No proof for that, just a hypothesis.
Steingrimur Stefansson, my filter removes at least 50 per day. I am really tired of deleting them all the time. I can no longer block them all, as it seems that my e-mail service has a limited number of registered blocked e-mails, which is about 1,000.
The problem is when the same person from the same predatory journal creates several e-mails like person001@..., person002@..., person003@..., person250@..., and then it is impossible to avoid this by only blocking the e-mails.
Hi Bruno Chrcanovic .Check your filter setting. The email I am using moves flagged spam to bulk mail when they have the same IP address. They dont show up in the inbox.
Jules Lloyd Hammond There is this Dolos list:
https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list
According to the writer/creator of the Dolos list, the conditions for adding an item to the list are: - The lack of rigor of peer review. - The lack of financial transparency, particularly in terms of the cost of publications for authors. - Dissemination of false scientific data or pseudoscientific information. - The promotion of researchers on editorial boards against their will or the employment of low-skilled editors. - The low respect of the intellectual property of the authors.
Here are the “names” from those I believe to belong to the same group that keep flooding my postbox. Block them:
“E. Padron, Ph.D.”
"A. Siozos, M.D."
"P. Jimenez, Ph.D."
"Dr. A Lesnevskyi M.D."
"A. Umana, M.D."
Dear Colleagues
This should be of the interest of all researchers:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING
Predatory Publishing: An Industry that Is Threatening Science:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING/update/5c3ef8adcfe4a76455115c37
There is also this list of predatory journals (besides the Dolos list):
https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/
I have just received this that I decide to delete, it's obviously spam as the email address of origin is: USP Singapore
Dear Phil Dyke，
Greeting and good day.
I represent Universe Scientific Publishing Pte. Ltd., a highly reputable publication house based in Singapore.
We are the editorial office of Marine and Environment.
Currently, we are inviting some active academic scholars to join us, and becoming the editorial board member of our journal. We came across your article, “The history of Jonsmod 1981–2006” published in Ocean Dynamics and found your research is highly valuable. Therefore, we would like to cordially invite you to join us.
Beyond that, our journal plans to publish special issues from 2019 to 2020, we also send you an invitation to be the Lead Guest Editor of the special issues.
If you are interested to join our Editorial Board or interested to become the Lead Guest Editor of the special issues, we will give you more detailed information. Of course, if you are interested in both, we would be grateful.If you are not interested, I am sorry that we take the liberty to disturb you.
Please contact us if you have any further questions.
We are looking forward to your reply.
Best regards， ZY Png Editorial Office Marine and Environment
Dear Bruno Chrcanovic ,
Back 'on topic'. Your question can be answered by a quick look at Beall’s list:
https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/
This ‘journal’ Internal Medicine Review is on the list. So yes this a predatory journal.
By the way Phil Dyke your gut feeling was right, the ‘publisher’ Universe Scientific Publishing is mentioned in Beall’s list (in publisher section):
https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/
A good tip from @Randolph B Caldwell:
9 Signs a conference is a big fat fake!
https://www.exordo.com/blog/9-signs-this-is-a-fake-conference/
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