I have received many emails like your email. They always ask you to pay in advance to get the reward. I always send them an agreement to take half of my reward and send me the remaining amount of money. Of course, no one reply to my request.

Dear Sir,

Now-a-days, it becomes a business strategy.

Please check the winners of previous years for the credibility of these type of awards.

The connected people like organizers, judges, and funding agencies are well-known or not.

By observing these things you can realize the importance of the award.

also received this email on the 9th August, assuming it is a scam

I also received it. The email mentions my most recent Elsevier JNGSE's publication, which came online a week ago. It is certainly a scam.

Dear Author,

Congratulations, Your recent publication has been provisionally selected for Research Awards and recommended by our scientific committee. So kindly nominate with your recent research profile/resume through an online submission system. After a few steps of profile verification and registration processes you will get your Research Award.

Selected Award Category: Best Research Award Nomination Link: https://x-i.me/I6O Note: Submit your updated profile under the selected award category.  

With regards,

The Award Manager, Research  Awards An International Research Awards ScienceFather

I've just had this email too..

I have received this email too

I think it is fake, please be carreful!

Looks like a scam! Our article published in the morning and within ah hour or so my PI received an email stating that she got the research award for the very same paper.

I have received the same e-mail. I think it is fake

I also received the same email today...

scam

I also got the same email now. I feel it is a scam. Then I googled on the internet, and I found it here. Thank you for sharing.

I also got a similar email just now, seems like a scam.

I also got the same email now . It like a scam. Thank you for sharing.

**** THIS IS SCAM **** DONT VERIFY / REGISTER **** DONT SUBMIT YOUR PROFILE ****

Dear Author,

Congratulations, Your recent publication has been provisionally selected for Research Awards and recommended by our scientific committee. So kindly nominate with your recent research profile/resume through an online submission system. After a few steps of profile verification and registration processes, you will get your Research Award.

Selected Award Category: Best Research Award Nomination Link: https://x-i.me/ve2 Note: Submit your updated profile under the selected award category.  

With regards,

The Award Manager, Research  Awards An International Research Awards ScienceFather

This definitely sounds like a scam. I also received such an e-mail within minutes after a manuscript was published online.

About an hour ago I received this email from someone signing as "Award Manager":

Give reply to as an award manager

Dear professor,

I will inform you ScienceFather Awards are not a scam one. The scienceFather publicizes an outline of Awards for researchers in order to help excellence in various fields of science and technology. These Awards are known as "Best Research Awards". The award is open to those researchers involved in graduate education and research happenings that accentuate bearable progress.

ScienceFather award is a purely merit based Award platform. The award is based on researcher latest publication, Quality of paper, Novelty and past performance only the researcher are provisionally selected as an award nominee. After submission of researcher nomination profile, we verified all indexing, research merit, complete verification and our committee recommendation only the award has been declared and provided to the award to the nominee. To you have any more clarification kindly Send Reply to [email protected]

Benefits:

• Advancing perfection and perceiving remarkable commitments made by the youthful researchers for their work done essentially during the span of study.

• Find out about career advancement and the most recent research devices and technologies in your field.

• Graduates are motivated by the chance to choose neighborhood or worldwide subjects of pertinence/enthusiasm to them, and build up their own logical examinations and models drawing in locally or universally.

Please Kindly Remove the Researchgate post, sir.

Award Manager

ScienceFather

I replied politely as follows:

Hi,

My post on ResearchGate is simply a question. It is by no means an attack against you. You are welcome to post a reply on the thread to present your own point of view. This will even be excellent for you since your answer will be exposed to thousands of researchers.

Best regards

J.-C. Grivel

A little later came this email from the same address:

Sir,

Inform as an Award Manager I have attending many enquiries regarding your Post. So if you have any clarification required to contact me. This is not a legal way to writing your personal things and damage the company name as a post to public. It is also possible many of them taking wrongly. So remove your post immediately.

Award Manager

ScienceFather

I expect that the attacks will become stronger with time and probably I'll remove the post at some point.

Dr. Grivel, I did not see any credibility when a more composed email came my way, which by the way also is something I have never experienced in the 30 years career!!

Dear Author,

Congratulations, Your recent publication has been provisionally selected for Research Awards and recommended by our scientific committee. So kindly nominate with your recent research profile/resume through an online submission system. After a few steps of profile verification and registration processes you will get your Research Award.

Selected Award Category: Best Research Award Nomination Link: https://x-i.me/8qw Note: Submit your updated profile under the selected award category.

With regards,

The Award Manager, NESIN Research Awards An International Research Awards ScienceFather

Reference:

A biopolymer coating on copper was prepared based on chitosan nanocomposite and its corrosion inhibition efficiency was investigated. Inclusion of silica nanoparticles substantially reduces swelling ratio of chitosan coating while enhancing its thermal stability. The corrosion resistance of chitosan-based coatings is improved by introducing 2-mercaptobenzothiazole and silica in the matrix. It is found that upon crosslinking the chitosan coatings, a higher corrosion resistance could be achieved and the highest inhibition efficiency for chitosan nanocomposite coatings is calculated as 85%. The corrosion mechanism is found closely related to mass transition and diffusion process, and also the polarization resistance contributes to the impedance. Calculated impedance using Kramers-Kronig transformation shows good agreement with experimental values, thus validating the impedance measurements. This study exhibits the enhanced efficiency of nanocomposite and potential of chitosan coatings in corrosion prevention for copper.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141813020341222#!

It is actually a scam.

I also received the same email. I have to confess that at the very beginning I was thrilled to bits jajajaj. Luckily, I have searched in the web

Dear Jean-Claude Grivel,

is there actually any legal angle they could pursue to remove this thread? I do not think this discussion should be removed, but I can understand that you might not want to be pestered by ScienceFather in the future.

Dear Jean-Claude Grivel

It is 1000 % a scam. Don't remove anything. Sometimes, it is better to mention about fake links.

If it is NOT legal as they mentioned, they can contact easily the ResearchGate team and it will be removed automatically by them.

I also received the same email just now. I suspected it was a scam. So I searched the internet and found it here. Thanks for sharing.

Ditto Novotny's comment.

yes, today, I also received this mail from Research Awards! I think that it is a scam

Yes we received one of these emails as well. It's a scam.

Yes I received also such a mail

We live in the time of ORCID (established in 2012). All essential information about this or that researcher is placed on ORCID. All major journals require ORCID number. Accordingly, all information requested by the Research Awards is readily available nonline. Since they request it, they are not linked with science at al ! Most likely, they are not even aware of the ORCID numbers since they are to affiliated with any science.Accordingly, even if it not a scam, it is of no value scientifically.

I also got it right now. Surprisingly, how they come to know about the paper, which is not even published online yet !! Thanks for the thread.

Got the same email today: looked very suspicious already, but founding this thread was useful to confirm it as a scam

I also got the same email

I also got it too.

I also got it too

I also got it too

Be aware it is a scam!

Many such emails are receiving every day. Be careful

I received the same mail

I received it too.

I received a similar email today and I believe that it can only be a scam.

Otherwise, how can it be that the papers of all of us claiming to have received that same congratulation mail, no matter our respective research fields, are all "selected for Research Awards and recommended by their scientific committee"?

We should be very aware!!!

Be aware it is a scam!

(August 30, 2020) My manuscript is not published yet (It has a DOI, but as far as I know, it is "waiting publication"). Nevertheless, I received today the same e-mail from "[email protected]". I believe that the purpose of this "research award" is to harvest information from the solicited researchers through the provided link. Does not look serious!

I received it too. Looks like a scam. Check their website too, it looks so realistic until now. :)

My colleague also got one today. Be aware because it costs you 49 dollars.

It is clearly a scam. Please do not remove this thread. It started as a question on whether it was a scam, there is no slander or legal issue in this. Their threat is clearly empty and the thread is helpful for many people who receive the email.

Dear Jean-Claude Grivel

I received same e-mail. Looks like a scam: e-mail from "[email protected]".

I received it as well.

I received the same email.

I received the same mail. Thanks for your comments. Very helpful!

Today I received the same mail. Thanks

for your signals.

I received the similar mail today.

I also got similar email today.

I received the same email.

I also received this email. Is it really a scam?

Recieved the same...

I received the same email 4 days ago.

I received the same. Seems scam to me!

Dear Prof !

I also get the same email, for the best research award. What's going on, confused

I have also got similar mail today. It's purely a business like insa research award. Please don't pay/go for it.

I also received same mail today

I also received same e-mail today

looks like scam dear

Trashed it to junk mail, looks like scam

I received exactly the same email, the only massage come out in my mind is: that is scam so when I see the same problem from research-gate friends, I am sure it is scam and I did not open the link.

I got the same e-mail to day!!!

I also received same email today . Seems scam !

I also received the same email today. It's likely a scam since the sender used a personal Gmail address (Gowthami Raveendharan

Also received this, likely a scam.

Please do not click on the link. It’s highly likely a scam!

I too received the mail

I also received the same email.

Me too. I just received the mail and Google the name of the website which landed me here. Paper was published only 24 hours earlier and identified for 'Best Research Award'.

This is purely hand work of scammers. Do not fall prey please.

I also received same email and I'm also thinking whether this award is suspicious or not. I never heard of this award before. I am not going to do anything on this.

You shouldn't respond to such an email since you didn't apply for any research grant or enter for a research award. You should not fall prey to the scammers.

I also received same email today . Do not fall prey please.

Seems scam

I just received the same mail. Probably a scam

Received this twice, should be a scammers.

I also received such a letter. This is a new kind of scientific rogues. This is a scam.

I too received the mail. This is such a novel scam, i guess.

I have received it twice, opened their site, discovered that it is a scam when they requested that I should pay.

I too received same email. Is it reliable or fake?

I've got the same. Congrats! We all are awarded! Ha-ha-ha

me too...

Just received and spam reported ...

Got the same mail, scam.

The question is to know if you want to have a false award for 50 dollars ?

It is quite cheap for a crap award, isn’t ! that at the end none will recognize...

Please to no remove this post as more scientific people become aware, more chance that they will stop their buisness

Thanks for shearing

I also received the same mail too.

I think this site is a trap to deceive people or to clone their academic accounts.

Thanks for answers

Fraud

I have received it too.

"With regards,

The Award Manager"????

Dear Sir,

I too received the same mail for one of my publication.

Dear Author,

Congratulations, Your recent publication has been provisionally selected for Research Awards and recommended by our scientific committee. So kindly nominate with your recent research profile/resume through an online submission system. After a few steps of profile verification and registration processes, you will get your Research Award.

Selected Award Category: Best Research Award

Nomination Link:

Note: Submit your updated profile under the selected award category.

With regards,

The Award Manager,

Research Awards

An International Research Awards

ScienceFather

So, I too want to know whether this is authentic or one of the type of fraud.

Thanks with regards,

Sameer Gajghate

“Dear Author,

Congratulations, Your recent publication has been provisionally selected for Research Awards and recommended by our scientific committee. So kindly nominate with your recent research profile/resume through an online submission system. After a few steps of profile verification and registration processes you will get your Research Award.

Selected Award Category: Best Research Award

Nomination Link: https://x-i.me/8qw

Note: Submit your updated profile under the selected award category.

With regards,

The Award Manager,

NESIN Research Awards

An International Research Awards

ScienceFather

I also received the same email. Pretty sure it's a new scam.

Seems to be a false and fraudulent email as I also received the same email and one of my published works randomly is mentioned. It is really a piece of unfortunate that the virtual environment does not have a police and active prosecution route to properly stop this sort of scams.

I have received the same email today...From the get go it appeared fraudulent and fake...similar approaches have been made earlier by many other so-called scientific organizations so this one being a fishing scan was a no brainer.

Definitely Scam of the highest order.