see also this blog dealing with the same subject:

http://flakyc.blogspot.com/2017/01/scientific-federation-sf.html

Thanks Antonio!

Maybe someone else knows who they really are.

In fact I was surprised, because (unlike many other similar everyday invitations), those were related to my research interests and orientated on my normal journey radius (not placed. on another end of the world).

Also the conferences appear to be real, a friend has send me a blog on them (participants describe their experiences): http://flakyc.blogspot.com/2017/01/scientific-federation-sf.html

Best

LYGIA

I opined that in entire world, majority of the so called scientific federations are professional. They plan for the conference, seminar, symposium etc. year around and earn money from the same. Some of them invite the bio-data of the scientists of their respective field and asked to pay money to award them for their so called Life Time Achievement Award and what you want from these so called federation/association/organization etc. So I firmly opined that these (majority) so called federations are nothing but money making factory to make scientific community foolish.

According to the comments in the blog, of people who have attended these events, everything seems to indicate that they are using scientists as useful idiots for them to make money in the organization of bad quality events to defraud people.

I would like to share an interesting link with you, related to the subject:

https://forbetterscience.com/about/

This is an archive copy of the latest edition of Beall’s list of PREDATORY PUBLISHERS, before it went dark. I found it under: https://clinicallibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers/

Also found a useful guide to determining whether a journal is predatory or not: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/check/ (it has to be noted however, that this webpage is a initiative founded by the of publishers)

PS

See also this recent publication on Research Gate:

Article The illicit and illegitimate continued use of Jeffrey Beall'...

Hi!

Actually, last year I accidentally signed up for one of Scientific Federation's conferences - dedicated to material science. My impression was clear: Although all contributing scientist where serious and presented interesting results, the organizer is doing this for revenue, not for science. I came to suspect this before going. However, this happened after having payed the fee, and their refund policy is not among the most liberal ones ...

Actually, I wrote a piece about the experience, however in Norwegian:

https://forskning.no/meninger/kronikk/2017/10/slik-endte-eg-opp-pa-ein-userios-konferanse

Just to be clear: Scientific Federation is not a serious organization, it certainly belong to the "predatory" category.

Best regards,

Sølve Selstø

Dear Lygia Therese Budnik,

Scientific Federation is already listed on the Dolos list, a new list of predatory publishers and journals:

https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list

Best regards,

Alexandre.

New business model: distributing of electronic “reprints”

There is an interesting new business model from so called “Science Mailer Team“. They are offering to mail around the world your non-open access publication for 150 Eur. Planning to flood thousands of email accounts with your publication and at the same time to send around a publication with restricted access from the publisher.

You maybe received this allready: “We can distribute electronic 'reprints' of your (they name one of your publications, which are NOT open access) paper (note which is not open access) and/or any other articles of your choice to thousands of scientists in your field for a very reasonable amount (150 Euros in total). You can go even further: You can distribute an article and invite the recipients to join you in a discussion forum on the topic in ResearchGate”

Lygia Therese Budnik, Many thanks for this important awareness discussion and sharing recent updates on such predatory conferences and publishing. I didn't know about alot of them.

Regards

Waqas

Dear Peter Breuer,

The reasons for adding DOAJ are explained here:

https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/doaj-1

This is the only one at the moment but we are waiting for some answers to add more. You are naturally free to report others. My team will take care of all requests.

Best regards,

Alexandre.

LONG POST

Dear NN, since recently I've gotten E-Mail-invitations by "ACADEMIA Publishing House [USA, England] [directed to an "old e-mail-address" [most probably linked to my former actvities in a scientific society].

Since still yet I haven't found any hint on a former inclusion of the mentioned "Academia Publishing House' (by full text search) in Research Gate I thought I add my message to you all in this thread (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Predatory_conferences_and_publishing_new_developments) started by Lygia Therese Budnik 4 months ago,

FYKI and aware- as well as preparedness only:

-Message text: QUOTE (by copy and paste):

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From: Date: Mi., 24. Okt. 2018 um 01:38 Uhr

[NB: so they are active right now.... not only in 2017 !-see below!] Subject: Call For Papers To: Cc: NB: sic!) Editorial Assistant, ACADEMIA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ISSN 2315-778X Academia Publishing -----------------------------------------------------------

We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to [email protected] for publication. ---------------------------------------------------------

North America Academia Publishing House 10005, Wall Street, New York, USA. (==>NB: fake address!]

Tel: +1 (530) 341-3920 Fax: +1 (877) 289-3847 -------------------------------------------------------

Europe Academia Publishing House King Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, LS1 2HQ 35 094 UK

Tel: +44 (7087) 626-473 Fax: +44 (8435) 594-498 END OF QUOTE by COPY and PASTE from E-Mail

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When googleing for them I found also (besides other results) the following,

entitled:

"ACADEMIA PUBLISHING - ACADEMIA.edu [sic!] " (NOTE: ACADEMIA.edu is another, real website like or similar to Research Gate in presenting publications and articles including authors' profiles too)

with URL: http://independent.academia.edu/ACADEMIAPUBLISHING :

ACADEMIA PUBLISHING

Biology+4

Phone: +447012966598 Address: http://academiapublishing.org/ Academia Publishing House King Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, LS1 2HQ 35 094 UK less

1 Follower | 0 Following | 19Total Views [NB: sic!]

"ACADEMIA PUBLISHING hasn't uploaded any papers yet"

and, most interestingly, published [quote, copyNB: sic!!] Editor,[email protected] North America: Academia Publishing House, 10005, Wall Street, New York, USA, Tel:  +1 (530) 341-3920, Fax: +1 (877) 289-3847 Europe: Academia Publishing House, King Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, LS1 2HQ 35 094, UK, Tel:  +44 (7087) 626-473, Fax: +44 (8435) 594-498

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Also, have a look into:

Scam email #185856 - Call For Papers

Email info

The email was sent on 2016-04-13 00:58:39 and appeared to be from [email protected] but this address could have been spoofed. If you replied to this email, your reply would have been sent to NA which was the scammer's actual email address. It was probably sent from Unknown in Unknown, Unavailable

can be found at: https://scammed.by/scam.php?id=185856

One can find therein more/less the same content of an e-mail like above, but the CALL for PAPERS is for an

"ACADEMIA JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Impact Factor (0.351) Call for Papers "

and lists 58! disciplines (QUOTE!): ACADEMIA JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts in: from:

• Agricultural Sciences........ to ......
• Statistics

==>NB: Then folllows an information on :

Indexing Body and Partners: Impact Factor (0.351), Covered by CABI, Google Scholar, Open J-Gate, Journal Seek, DOAJ, Union Catalogue, University of California Library, National Library of Sweden, Scholars Portal, University Library, Saskatchewan, The University of Georgia Library, Chemical Abstracts (USA), University of Oregon Library, University of Groningen Library, State Library of New South Wales, Colorado State University Library, Ghent University, Belgium, WZB Library, Germany, Periodicos, Scotland Knowledge Network, Covered by SLUB

only but the editor's name is now:

Prof. Lindsay Greer Editor, ACADEMIA JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH EMAIL: [email protected] Academia Publishing ISSN 2315-7712

==> Please be careful with the links in the above email - Scammed.by strongly suggests that you do not click on any links in the above message The email above is most likely a scam but every now and then legitimate emails do come through, as do spam emails which are not attempting to defraud, so please use your judgement. You can contact ScamSearch at help at scammed.by for any information, help, or if you have spotted a legitimate email. Please link to the email you think is legitimate. ScamSearch does not accept any responsibility for visitors enduring any issues as a result of following links in the above email and/or contacting the sender Please do not contact the sender unless you know what you are doing (i.e. experienced scambaiters)

(END OF QUOTE)

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So, Don't let yourself be fooled! But since (most of) you all are experienced and warned for a while / for some time, I am allowed to assume.......you know what is going on....

Best regards, W.H.M.

Dear Peter Breuer,

Indeed, Indian Journal of Public Health has been added for their questionable editorial board and their lack of financial transparency. The journal had been contacted, but refused to provide the requested information. Then we examined Medknow and Wolters Kluwer and decided, in accordance with the rules of the Dolos list, to add them, having considered that these problems were recurrent for this publisher. For example, they have repeatedly used names of researchers in their editorial boards without their agreement.

If you want to submit another publisher or journal to the Dolos list, do not hesitate to do it as stated in the Dolos list rules:

https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/operation

My team will examine your requests with a great attention.

Best regards,

Alexandre.

Dear Peter Breuer,

I understand your request.

First, please refer to the preamble, § 4 of the operation section of the Dolos list (https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/operation):

"The Dolos list will never have to justify itself to anyone in any case, unless the interests of justice so require, as in the framework of, for example, a procedure initiated by the Dolos list team. The collected evidence serves only to make a decision. Justification requests will therefore never be processed, regardless of the originator of this request, so that they do not delay the team's work."

This rule is especially made to avoid losing too much time in justifications. Evidence is only for analysis. It's up to researchers to decide whether they can trust us or not. We only justify ourselves for more important files (like https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/tf-file-translation).

Then, according to the "Operation and rules" part introducing the Dolos list on its main page (https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list):

"For an element to be added, it is necessary that it has committed one of the aforementioned faults in the 6 years preceding its examination."

For the moment, this rule is more a principle that my team follows, but it is not integrated in the section operation, in order to possibly be able to extend this period without having to change the strict rules. This was of course not necessary for IJPH.

Faults leading to an addition are indicated in part II, subpart 1 of the operation section. Medknow's Indian Journals of Public Health meets the conditions set out in sections A, B, C, and D of part II, subpart 1. However, if Medknow owns IJPH, it is responsible for it. This is the same for Wolters Kluwer (still under study) who owns Medknow. All conditions are strictly met. Medknow and IJPH are well predatory and pseudoscientific.

In addition, IJPH had the opportunity to respond during our comprehensive investigation, the conditions of which are set out in Part II, Subpart 2, Section D, subsection a:

"In order to carry out the examination, the office may address a series of questions to the publisher or the journal, which will be the result of questions that arose during the preliminary inquiry. Without answer, the office will be based on its doubts and the other elements."

IJPH refused to answer our questions.

Finally, be aware that, as indicated on the main page of the Dolos list:

"Important Note: A researcher who publishes in a pseudoscientific journal is not necessarily incompetent. A journal can be initially serious and become predatory. In addition, it is often the case that well-established researchers trust this kind of journals, because of their excessive speed or lack of knowledge of the world of predatory publishing. Researchers are the victims of this sector and some high quality papers do not have the visibility due to them because of a publication in a bad journal. If you are a PhD student and the funding for your publication has been suspended because of a submission to a predatory journal - because it has already happened, do not hesitate to show this message."

Best regards,

Alexandre.

Dear Peter Breuer,

I appreciate your interest in the Dolos list, but it would be better if you read the entire Dolos list operation section (https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/operation) before asking me questions. As you will see, response times are 7 days. IJPH was contacted on 09/09/2018 and still has not responded.

Again, my office only provides evidence for the most important files. These subjects are covered in the Dolos list statements section (https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/statements).

For the other additions to the list, it's simply inconceivable. For each publisher or journal, it would not be a lot of time, but if you do it for all journals, publishers, organizations, and newspapers listed on the Dolos list, it represents an extravagant time cost (just look at its length), while already have a team to manage the list as it is organized. As a reminder, I am alone to finance the Dolos list (for reasons of neutrality and independence), which means that every time I employ someone for the list, funds will come out of my pocket all months to pay him. I do not know if you realize what that means. I prefer to follow the current operation and let the researchers check when they have doubts on a minor element on the list.

The Dolos list has an operation that does not leave office members express their personal points of view. My team follows a specific procedure to examine each case. If you do not trust our integrity and honesty, nothing forces you to follow the Dolos list recommandations. But I will not make an exception in our operation and our priorities and Medknow will be described as a predatory publisher as long as it remains predatory. The withdrawal procedures are explained in the operation section. Now it's up to them to provide explanations, not the Dolos list.

I am sorry for your work, but you are not alone in this situation. Many well-established researchers have been scammed by these companies.

Best regards,

Alexandre.

I have seen an email coming from them but I have always treated it as spam

Read the link below by Ljubomir Jacić

on the "Negative Effects of “Predatory” Journals on Global Health Research" “Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of the scientific literature in the health sciences as they actually boost the propagation of errors. In this article, we identify issues with PJ and provide several responses, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives in health sciences. Authors, particularly researchers with limited previous experience with international publications, need to be careful when considering potential journals for submission, due to the current existence of large numbers of PJ. Universities around the world, particularly in developing countries, might develop strategies to discourage their researchers from submitting manuscripts to PJ or serving as members of their editorial committees.” https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING

and

Forero DA, et al. Negative Effects of “Predatory” Journals on Global Health Research. Annals of Global Health. 2018; 84(4), pp. 584–589. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29024/aogh.2389

Read this by Lubomir Jacic at Research Gate:

https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING/update/5bf28d053843b0067545bcbf

please see interesting INFORMATION from WOLFGANG MUSS at: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Dubious_conference_invitations_Just_spam_or_do_these_meetings_actually_take_place

You will find below the text extracted from WOLFGANG MUSS (see the link above) “....... How to Spot a Fake Conference - Please Read! http://surviving-brain-injury.blogspot.com/2017/05/how-to-spot-fake-conference-please-read.html which provides (– partially quoted here -) insight into: What is a Fake / Vanity Conference? (Quote: ) "I am going to quote a recent Huffington Post article rather extensively today: “In this post, we hope to raise awareness about the growing menace of bogus conferences, organized by predatory publishers as well as specialized conference groups such as BIT Congress Inc, Conference Series Ltd, Event Series (both owned by OMICS International), PSC Conference and many others. These groups, often based out of China and India, run vanity conferences on nearly every conceivable topic. Unwary researchers fall prey to these seemingly "prestigious" speaking opportunities and pay the high registration fee to attend, as well as the high cost of travel and lodging. These conferences make money through registration fees that are bundled with charges for the hotel, meals, program materials, ground transportation and other hidden charges (e.g. sightseeing tours)." (end of quote) Interesting to read also: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/predatory-conference-scammers-are-getting-smarter/3009263.article; or The proliferation of questionable conferences (Physics today): https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20180718a/full/; and - but not the last source! - Open Access / Predatory Publishers / Questionable Conferences: Questionable Conferences - NIH, Publishing Issues, Books, Databases (= https://libguides.caltech.edu/c.php?g=512665&p=3503029 ): one can find also a list of : Conferences / Conference Organizers QUESTIONABLE CONFERENCES. Don't fall prey to these "Organizers" of THEIR money-making events......and: Have a nice weekend though....- Best wishes and regards, W.H. M. “

Dear all, just to add a hint on another thread regarding "Dubious, fake or eventually predatory Conferences": read also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Dubious_conference_invitations_Just_spam_or_do_these_meetings_actually_take_place

Thank you for your confidence and efforts in fighting 'Fake' or at least "flaky" conference invitations.

Best wishes and regards, W.H.M.

Dear colleagues,

The section of the Dolos list dedicated to the organizers of doubtful or fake conferences has been opened:

https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list

Its filling is however slow, because of certain methods of verification sometimes requiring to exchange with universities, in particular when the organizer under investigation wants to organize a conference within a faculty or claims to be affiliated with a university.

The section is still being filled, but do not hesitate to continue submitting new suggestions to my team, following the usual procedure.

In addition, the other sections were updated yesterday. This update is rather voluminous, because of the holidays which delayed its elaboration and new activities of the Dolos list (free services to researchers, institutions, and administrations):

https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/services

Best regards,

Alexandre.

If Scientific Federation (SF) refers to me as Distinguish Professor (instead of a student) and invites me for a plenary talk based on my prominentcy and proficientcy in the field of Agriculture and Horticulture (never publish in that field), then SF is clearly a predatory one.

Dear Benjamín Moreira-Grez , they love students who let them pet you (or your face....(:-)).

Best regards, Wolfgang H.M.

Thank you Wolfgang to pointing this. This is important to notice this before you lose your time and money.......

Today I was invited by Scientific Federation to be an Organizing Committe Member for a conference on applied chemistry, a subject I know almost nothing about. I infer this must be a mass mailing to people whom they have not bothered to assess. Draw your own conclusions.

Hi all, I recently had the experience of googling myself (as part of a dinner table conversation) and found my name & image listed as a speaker for the global conference on nursing & healthcare management website: https://nursingconference-auroragroup.com/eloquent-speakers.php

It’s an ’aurora group’ conference

I had some brief interaction with them many months ago (curiosity), but there has been no further contact and no confirmation that I would attend from my end- I honestly had forgotten about it. Is this a legitimate conference and worth looking presenting at, or is this a scam?

@ Gemma: I was asked to become a chair of a conference (at least it was more or less in my subject area), but would had no influence either on a program, nor the invited speaker. I really do not know, if those organizers have ever realized that any kind of a scientific conference should be organized by scientists and scientific societies, not by the back office! The later should provide only support, not the scientific program.

Thanks St Schulz , the first thing I did was to contact my boss to let them know it wasn't an authorised use of my image/name. I may need to get our relevant teams onto it. It is a very unsettling experience.

I am no longer listed on that website, and the conference dates were allegedly moved to May 2020. Small win :)

@ Gemma: this is in fact a great success. Normally it is difficult to reach this

Hi all, I received the following message via my LinkedIn account from the so-called scientific federation group. I knew it was a scam the moment I read the message - the quality, the horrible website, the email provided at the end of the mail, etc. It is sad that such groups exist, and nothing has been done yet by genuine scientific organization to put them out of business.

"Program Coordinator at SCIENTIFIC FEDERATION

Oct 21

Dear.

Good day from Oil-Gas-Petroleum-2020!!

We are honor to invite you as a Speakers for 6th World Congress & Expo on Oil, Gas & Petroleum Engineering (Oil-Gas-Petroleum-2020), which will be held during February 13-14, 2020 at Lisbon, Portugal. For more information about our conference kindly have a glance at: https://scientificfederation.com/oil-gas-petroleum-2020/index.php

I await for your immediate response.

Regards,

Alexander. Program coordinator

[email protected]"

# Mohammed Gumsuri: thanks for sharing.

I also received the same invitation, though I am not related to the subject of the conference. SPAM folder is the only pace for it......

Dear all, I am a chemist but (only) this weekend I have received.

Dear Dr. Gloria Huerta-Ángeles, Greetings

We found your research profile in online

We publish articles related to your research interest so we would like to invite you to contribute a paper for publication in our upcoming issue for the Journal of Textile Engineering and Fashion Technology.

If possible, I would appreciate receiving your submission on or before November 15th, 2019.

Thank you for your time and consideration

Anticipating for your reply

Regards, Justin Joe Journal of Textile Engineering and Fashion Technology Opast Publishing Group Overland Park Kansas 66221 United States https://www.opastonline.com/

Dear Dr. Gloria Huerta-Ángeles,

A warm wishes from SCRM-2020.!

On behalf of the SCRM-2020 organizing committee, we are pleased to invite you to present your work as a speaker at the 3rd Global Summit on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation on June 18-19, 2020.

SCRM-2020 is a community of professionals highlighting best practices from different verticals in this field. We are anticipating a highly thriving and open community which you will find quite engaging and promising for future developments. We hope your talk will offer attendees a wealth of opportunities forging new pathways in their research.

The conference adopts the theme “Frontiers in Stem Cell and Scaffolds in Regenerative Medicine” which focusing on latest research and developments in stem cell and regenerative medicine.

To know much more about the congress: Go to webpage.

We would appreciate if you could confirm your presence at the earliest and would also be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Sincerely,

Rohini

Conference manager

SCRM-2020

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 040-68176307

Hello Gloria Huerta-Angeles, You are invited to the following event:

Frontiers in Spectrometry and Analytical Chemistry

Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:

Monday, March 23, 2020 at 8:30 AM - to - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 5:30 PM (GMT) London Heathrow Sipson West Drayton London 1150 United Kingdom Each week, it is practically the same. Then be aware please.

greetings

I recommend : WIKIPEDIA Predatory conferences

HUFFPOST Predatory conferences undermine science and scam academics

Thank you Marc, very useful link indeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_conf

Especially, young scientist should read it!

Please see recent update in the project referring to predatory publications and the reference provided within the update: https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING

Note: all the indices on the predatory publications also apply to the predatory conferences. https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING/update/5e1da5b2cfe4a777d40400ee

Please see also from Marc:

The Third Cognitive Revolution: The consequences and possibilities for biomedical research in EMBO Reports 20(4):e47647, March 2019 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332084748_The_Third_Cognitive_Revolution_The_consequences_and_possibilities_for_biomedical_research

check its authenticity from website/reliable sources and then decide to publish your work or not!

I have just been invited as a speaker to one of their conferences in Atlanta, through LinkedIn. That alone made it pretty clear they're frauds as I haven't even shared my academic background there :)

Dear Erva, thank you for your statement in this particular thread on dishonest and fraudulent practices regarding conferencce organizations hassling many many scientists by their either sending personalized BUT unsolicited spamming e-mails as well their (also personalized) advertisments and offers via other Social platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter as was found to happen most recently...

Concerning: CONFERENCESERIES.LTD

Posts and Advertisements / Offers via LinkedIn:

“PSYCHIATRY MEET 2020”...

Conference in ABU DHABI 2020 UAE, June 25-26,2020

LinkedIn posts:

Meet

#international peers in Global Mental Health research forum “PSYCHIATRY MEET 2020”... #speakers #students #delegates #bussiness #enterpreneurship #mentalhealth #marketingcommunication #therapists #peers #behaviours analyst #autismspectrumdisorder #developed

#mindbodyconnection Email us: [email protected] Whats-app us: +447723584478

“PSYCHIATRY MEET 2020”... Conference in ABU DHABI 2020 UAE, June 25-26,2020

You might be interested to get aware of that CONFERENCESERIES.LTD commonly is known as „Predatory“ or at least dubious Conference ‚Organizer‘

(search GOOGLE & RESEARCHGATE – the latter might turn out to be compromised already by ConferenceSeries LTD) for that and other reasons which have been (at least in part) documented in the enclosed / attached PDF.

Additional information/data I have in my Hard Drive ready to show anybody asking for it.

This post is SELF-PROTECTING rather than „DEFAMATING“, based on investigable, elucidating information evidenced by many publicly published and uncontradicted data found in the world wide web.

I urge any reader of this thread also to visit, read and comment on the following THREADS (only the most 'important' ones regarding predatory, dubious or at least flaky Conference Organizers (and "Conference SOUVENIR Publishing**) see below and encloswed image "!)

• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Dubious_conference_invitations_Just_spam_or_do_these_meetings_actually_take_place
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/You_believe_this_man_Jeffrey_Beall_and_what_about_his_list_of_Predatory_Journals_and_Publishers
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_have_to_say_about_KEI_Journals
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Fraudulent_journal_and_congresses_Archives_of_Applied_Medicine_2019_Global_Conf_on_Neuroscience_and_Neurology_2019_Annual_Conference_on_Genetics

**) ABSTRACTS will be PUBLISHED in the CONFERENCE SOUVENIR AND RESPECTIVE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL", as can be found in their recently launched advertisement via LinkedIn (the respective "imagination" you can find in their presented 'poster')

I have been approached by some of these dubious characters. How do they gain through this ?

George John

We have to find out; looks like: „fake conferences“ as a business model. Lygia

Does anybody know about this Journal - it smeks predatory.

Från: Riya Lewis Datum: 22 juli 2020 04:21:36 CEST Till: Håkan Brorson Ämne: Request to "Manuscript Submission" for the journal "World Journal of Clinical Surgery" Svara till: Riya Lewis

Dear Prof. H Brorson, Hi, I’m Riya lewis! On behalf of 'World Journal of Clinical Surgery', I would like to take the privilege to invite to contribute your research/discoveries to our journal. We are now accepting submissions for our upcoming Trending issue and therefore, contacting certain eminent researchers who have recently published high-quality articles. We understand your priorities and professional commitments. It would not be appropriate at this point of time to over burden you by asking you to write/contribute a full length manuscript. So, we kindly request you to submit at least 2 pages Editorial or 150 Words Clinical Image or Letter to Editor to our journal. Let us know your feasible time to contribute. Kindly submit your manuscript to our journal. Your prompt response is highly appreciated. We are looking forward for a long and productive relationship with you. Best Regards, Riya Lewis Editorial Manager USA Email: [email protected] Web: wjclinicalsurgery.com📷

Yes - it smeks...(:-))

Peculiar results of a websearch found (not found an > Imprint < section, not found any real information on the Publishers which perhaps are / may be located in China this time....)

NB:

BTW: regarding

Riya Lewis

" .tk" is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific.

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk, cf: subsection

Prior to the COVID 19 pandemic, conferences were held periodically at universities, institutes, and research centers. Now, conferences and workshops are held online only. You can send your research to the Toxicology Conference.

Dear Lygia Therese Budnik, I have recently realised that this research question was asked in our joint project. Sorry for the delay, but dear Wolfgang H. Muss is in this discussion room.

I do enclose fine Conference Assessment Tool .

https://dal.ca.libguides.com/c.php?g=257122&p=2830098#s-lg-box-wrapper-18920188

https://figshare.com/articles/Conference_Assessment_Tool/7342787/1

Dear Ljubomir Jacić , dear Lygia Therese Budnik,

thank you for pointing to the Conference Assessment Tool implemented by

Dalhousie University Libraries >>LibGuides >>Open Access >>Predatory Journals and Conferences [Last Updated: Aug 13, 2020 11:12 AM,

URL: https://dal.ca.libguides.com/open_access ], and

Conference Assessment Tool

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As a matter of fact I have seen / recognized (this might be a subjective impression) that more and more University Libraries (=Librarians) implement (more/less specific) information regarding "predatory", (or 'dubious', 'flaky', ....untrustworthy etc.) (for profit-) Conference "Organisers" and "Publishers".

That is one of the "good signs" [Increasing awareness about that scurge for unexperienced academians and 'young' researchers looking for acceptation / recognition / appreciation of their work] with regard to this ( >> predatory, flaky, dubious, unhonest, bogus, fraudulent, deceptive, big business, money easily acquired).

As one of the minor Co-authors in / of Project https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING

I would like to add here frankly but seriously again:

Just to recapitulate:

Everybody/Anybody can choose (even if sometimes starry-eyed) to attend ANY Conference offered by ANYbody or can submit a manuscript for publication ...as being INFORMED or INVITED by unsolicited [SPAM] E-Mail(s), or other sources set up or found in the WWW.

If you want to spend money on your own for a virtual "Congress-participation" ('vacation' or 'Sight-Seeing' as of Corona-Pandemia 99% isn't possible any more) do so.... or - preferentially - invest your money in joining an (International or National) Association or Society representing the field of your (academic) interest, research etc.

There might be not only one choice for Annual Meetings / Conferences those Societies / Associations organise and prepare - sometimes also together with 'Sister/Brother?'-Societies...Such might be more productive than an advertised WORLD/GLOBAL CONFERENCE of.....held/hosted in a small seminar / lecture room rented in a Hotel located at a / the Campus (turning out to be only located in the vicinity) of a renowned University...

'Temptation is great'...

since "they"(=these spamming guys) obviously ==>KNOW all about your previous 'outstanding' and eminent contribution to the academic and scientific community [ i.e., using search algorithms 'crawling' over new publications posted in the web and sending - then - automated 'personal invitations', presenting as and trying to convince you 'overfriendly' that you should follow their invitation ] .....

Information on the "character" of such "invitations" is - for sure - available more than hundredfold....(this number only an estimation! )

Much information can be found in several Q/A in ResearchGate...[one needs just to perform a 'search in 'PUBLICATIONS or QUESTIONS / SEARCH ResearchGate with the appropriate keyword(s)] [(potential keywords e.g.: >> unsolicited SPAM E-Mail Invitation 'PREDATORY' vs. 'REAL' Conference Checklist Publish* Journal . . .

Dear Isam Alkhalifawi , honestly:

If you - with your 'invitation' :

" You can send your research to the Toxicology Conference" wanted to refer to Toxicology Webinars 2020 | Toxicology Conferences 2020 ... as advertised and 'hosted' by www.conferenceseries.com

[-https://www.conferenceseries.com/toxicology-meetings;

--https://globaltoxicology.conferenceseries.com/;

--https://waset.org/toxicology-conferences;

--https://europe.toxicologyconferences.com/;

https://pharmacology.pharmaceuticalconferences.com/events-list/toxicology;

(NB: all websites one and the same 'organizer'! putting out their feelers / fishing net in any direction)

You might find further -for them unwanted - 'valuable' information about that organisation just searching for them via 'SEARCH' function in ResearchGate Q/A, via Google or any other Search engine...

Suchor similar applies also for:

--https://www.scientificfederation.com/toxicology-2020/ or

--https://toxicology.pulsusconference.com/ or

--https://toxicology.alliedacademies.com/ or

https://toxicology-conferences.magnusgroup.org/ or

https://frontiersmeetings.com/conferences/toxicology/; ....and more

[My proposal to read the following RG-threads :

• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Dubious_conference_invitations_Just_spam_or_do_these_meetings_actually_take_place
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/You_believe_this_man_Jeffrey_Beall_and_what_about_his_list_of_Predatory_Journals_and_Publishers
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_have_to_say_about_KEI_Journals
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Fraudulent_journal_and_congresses_Archives_of_Applied_Medicine_2019_Global_Conf_on_Neuroscience_and_Neurology_2019_Annual_Conference_on_Genetics
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_authentic_is_this_conference_http_scientificfederationcom_earth-science-2018
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Plant_Physiology_2020_Japan_Conference
• · https://www.researchgate.net/post/Invitation_to_a_fake_conference
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/I_received_invitation_to_the_conferences_on_topics_which_has_no_connections_with_any_of_my_scientific_work_or_interest_How_to_stop_that
• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Theiredorg_and_conferences_hosted_by_their_members#view=56cb47665e9d9779c58b45b0 ]

(and I guess, these are NOT all ResGate Q/A's dealing with that matter).

Best Regards, WHM

One has to be careful

Yes there should be a model

There is no doubt that the scientific federation is a predatory organization that has no interest in helping science and scientists

I this a predatoy publisher?

https://www.submitpapersnow.com

Dear Håkan Brorson ,

Yes. This ‘publisher’ is “IOSR Journals” (International Organization of Scientific Research) and is mentioned in the Beall’s list: https://beallslist.net/

See also: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Iosr_Journal_of_Dental_and_Medical_sciences

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Fake_Journals_IOSR

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_CRC_Press_and_IOSR_journals_predatory_journals

http://flakyj.blogspot.com/search/label/IOSR

Best regards.

Dear Marc Van Regenmortel you are absolutely right. For those still wondering, just have a look at: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-authentic-is-this-conference-http-scientificfederationcom-earth-science-2018

Dear Lygia Therese Budnik, even Wikipedia has a list of predatory meetings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_conference

Increasing awareness in the scientific community is essential how to differentiate trustworthy-reliable journals and predatory ones and to avoid predatory journals. Continuous education of authors about predatory publishers and journals, both the existing and the newly-emerging wave of scholars, must be the purpose and the imperative of the academic community...

Article Predatory in Scientific Publishing-a Burning Issue in Science

I heard Scientific Federation.com is now called Alberto and still offering conferences. Bogus?

no idea...

A personal experience with the Scientific Federation cancelled event? A nightmare with their refund policy: no conference, no refund. No more.

Stemming the rising tide of predatory journals and conferences: A selective review of literature

The paper highlights the prevalence of predatory journals and conferences that damage science and research across all knowledge branches. They are characterized by rapid acceptance and publication, aggressive email marketing, lack of quality control, and charge hefty Article Processing Charges (APC) (for journal articles) and registration fees (for conference papers) from the authors. They thrive on the ignorance and naivety of early-stage, inexperienced, ambitious, and ingenuous researchers who have to adhere to publications’ mandatory institutional requirements. Unfortunately, the senior researchers, despite knowing the downsides, publish, and present their research findings in predatory journals and conferences. The paper recommends that regulatory and funding bodies ensure that no credit or funding is given to publish and present in predatory journals and conferences. Libraries have a significant role to play – they should spread awareness among the researchers about the detrimental effect of fake publishing and conferencing; educate researchers about how to differentiate between bogus, fake journals, conferences, and the genuine ones...

Article Stemming the rising tide of predatory journals and conferenc...

Thank you for this valuable paper. Predatory conferences and journals hurt the entire scientific community! Spread the word!

The continuous growth of Predatory Journals is one of the most damaging trends in scientific communication since peer-reviewed scientific journals were established by the Royal Society a few centuries ago . In our POST -TRUTH age of fake news , reality denial and and science denialism that refuses to accept the validity of established scientific evidence , combatting predatory journals and conferences has become a vital necessity if we want science and technology to help preserve our blue planet together with its inhabitants who have nowhere else to go .

Dear Lygia Therese Budnik, this is fine article which was published this month.

Predatory Conferences: What Are the Signs?

Like predatory journals, predatory conferences are a growing part of the academic land-scape, but unlike their journal counterparts, to date predatory conferences have not been extensively investigated, and many unanswered questions about their workings exist. From a positive ethics perspective, a more complete understanding of predatory conferences is desirable, as it can support researchers in making ethically appropriate choices about con-ference attendance. Ten predatory conference organisations were the focus of this study. The investigation first set out to identify and document the attributes of such conferences. They were then analysed to understand which attributes can most easily and reliably be used to distinguish them from legitimate conferences. A tool to assist prospective par-ticipants is introduced. The implications for positive ethics, in terms of making decisions about conference attendance, are discussed... Predatory Conferences: What Are the Signs?. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351300291_Predatory_Conferences_What_Are_the_Signs [accessed May 05 2021].

I have jut receive an invitation from them in the title "Meet our Top Speakers in Aerospace-2021, Valencia, Spain". The link for the events is https://www.scientificfederation.com/aerospace-aeronautical-engineering/speakers.php , where they already added my photo and biography.

What about frontiers conferences

Dear Salem Y Mohamed , this is fine comment on Frontiers.

The Lausanne-based publishing house Frontiers, founded by the neuroscientists Henry and Kamila Markram, has been recently added to the Beall’s List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers...

Frontiers is quite popular with many scientists and research organisations. How can a publisher which helped pioneer such innovations as open access and name-signed peer review, have come to this?

https://forbetterscience.com/2015/10/28/is-frontiers-a-potential-predatory-publisher/

Thanks for your kind care

Dear Salem Y Mohamed ,

It depends on which Frontiers you talk about. As indicated by Ljubomir Jacić “Frontiers Media SA” (https://www.frontiersin.org/) is a well reputed publisher dedicated to open access journals. Personally, I think this is the best example that the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net/ ) is not flawless.

However, if you mean “Frontiers Meetings (FM)” (https://frontiersmeetings.com/) then be careful:

-It is mentioned in the list of questionable conferences https://libguides.caltech.edu/c.php?g=512665&p=3503029

-Their (FM) journals are published by FM publishers (https://fmpublishers.org/) a publisher mentioned in the updated version of the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net/#update ). A ‘judgement’ where I think ‘the Beall’s list’ is right.

This one you better avoid.

Best regards.

Knowledge production on predatory publishing: A systematic review

Scholarship on predatory publishing is in the early stages of development, and it is thinly distributed across journals, fields, and research contexts. It was surprising to find no studies in leading higher education journals, and this study reveals a research area that is still developing...

Article Knowledge production on predatory publishing: A systematic review

3rd Global virtual summit on Healthcare & Management

is it predatory conference?

I have been invited for guest speaker.

Who is sponsoring the conference?

Check if there is a website for any prior meetings..

My article on predatory publishing was cited in this artice:

Academic librarians and their role in disseminating accurate knowledge and information about the gray zone in predatory publishing

“Predatory” publishing is a non-binary academic phenomenon, but personal and professional biases may influence the criteria used to create associated blacklists and whitelists. Academic librarians, as scholarly communicators, play an essential role in transmitting accurate information about “predatory” publishing to students, staff, funders, university management and the public. In this paper, lessons are drawn from the published literature to offer advice to academic librarians about the gray zone in predatory publishing to avoid select misinformation pitfalls...

Academic librarians are essential in aiding the academic community to find solutions to this threat to the literature’s integrity...

Article Academic Librarians and Their Role in Disseminating Accurate...

Preparing to publish a research output can be daunting, especially if it is for the first time. Lorraine Estelle describes the organisation's approach in tackling predatory publishing by raising awareness among librarians and researchers and giving them the tools that they need to make an educated choice on which publishing venue is the most appropriate for their work.  Think.Check.Submit. encourages researchers to look out for the characteristics displayed by predatory publishers and use the checklist of questions to evaluate publishers when considering where to submit their research...

https://publicationethics.org/news/avoiding-predatory-publishers

Honestly just pointing and forwarding any interested reader to a +/- parallel thread regarding the matter PREDATORY or FAKE Congresses / Congress 'invitations':

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_this_a_fake_congress

Thank you for commenting there too.

The ‘publish or perish’ race among researchers force at least some of them to opt for quick outletsfor publication, making them fall into the trap of predatory journals. With a strong base and historyof research institutions and journals, the present study explores grooming a reasonable number ofquality journals in India to tackle the menace of predatory pub lishing. The data presented are col-lected from different sources to work out the approximate minimum number of quality journals thatcan be strengthened using state-of-the-art technology solutions as well as internationally competi-tive journal editorial, review and pu blishing procedures. It is difficul t to deal with the commercialinterests of predatory publishers through academic safeguards alone. However, their negative im-pact can be contained through a se t of action plans by various stakeholders, such as sensitizingauthors about the perils of predatory publishing, training new authors about the nuances of aca-demic publishing to facilitate their manuscripts getting accepted in good j ournals, strengtheningIndian journals to publish more quality papers, etc. (5) (PDF) Disrupting predatory journals. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358854527_Disrupting_predatory_journals [accessed Mar 02 2022].

Contamination by citations: References to predatory journals in the peer-reviewed marketing literature...

Predatory publishing is a growing and global issue infecting all scientific domains. Predatory publishers create counterfeit, not (properly) peer-reviewed journals to exploit the Open Access model in which the author pays. The plethora of predatory marketing journals along with the sophisticated deceptive practices of their publishers may create total confusion. One of the many highly likely risks of that confusion is when peer-reviewed, prestigious marketing journals cite these pseudo-marketing journals. This phenomenon is called citation contamination. This study aims to investigate the extent of citation contamination in the peer-reviewed marketing literature...

Article Contamination by citations: References to predatory journals...

Are scientex events and conferences reliable?

For me, personally, it is interesting, that RG doesn't deliver info-messages on this thread any more as I was used to find such Information ( like' "xyz ADDED NEW ANSWER to Question uvw")any more to my personal delivery E-Mail-account.

On this particular Q/A thread after my post 18th Feb I haven't gotten any message...This also is true for the RG-Q&A-thread I have mentioned in that my answer dated 18th Febr. 2022 on the other thread >https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_this_a_fake_congress< , which might be interesting for colleagues to read too (DUE TO very interesting - additional 5-7 -answers I was NOT INFORMED by RG-mail-notifications). Not knowing why but also not very amused about, kind regards, W.H.M

For over a decade, predatory publishers, journals and conferences have continuously menaced the research community, preying on its resources, and diminishing the general trust in science, becoming an important research topic. Previous studies have focused on identifying their characteristics, in order to increase the academic awareness and help researchers not becoming a prey. At the same time, predatory publishers diversified their strategies; the academic community developed disparate reactions, which determined more and diverse predatory strategies, aimed at luring and deceiving the scientists...

While the process is still ongoing, the present research is aimed at exposing the most extreme predation strategies, in an effort to make the line separating honest and predatory journals more traceable...

Article Predatory Journals: How Far Can They Go? An In-Depth Look at...

The reviews on predatory scientific journals by A I Petrisor should be compulsory reading for all PhD students :email Alexander Petrisor @uauim.ro)

2017 Libres 27 : 71-79

2021 Portal: Libraries and the Academy :21:685-693

2021 Bosniaca 26 : 26 :137-154

ORCID 0000/0002/8200/8465

The Alarming Rise of Predatory Conferences

For-profit conferences that masquerade as legitimate academic events but lack trusted selection and peer review processes are becoming more common. Here’s why that matters...

More recently, there has been an increase in the occurrence of similarly predatory (or “fake”) conferences across numerous scientific disciplines, including in the Earth and space sciences. Unfortunately, it is no longer safe to assume that a conference is genuine without doing proper background research into its organizers and sponsors...

https://eos.org/opinions/the-alarming-rise-of-predatory-conferences

Predatory Conferences: A Lesser-known (But No Less Dangerous) Predatory Publishing Scam

The amount of illegitimate science that’s presented at predatory conferences can be truly frightening. Predatory conferences, also called ‘vanity conferences’, are nothing new, and curious researchers have long since wondered how far they can push the envelope. In 2005, three graduate students submitted an entirely nonsensical paper to a predatory conference—and were accepted. Since then, many researchers have taken up the challenge of testing the validity of conferences through increasingly nonsensical submissions. Though the resulting ‘publications’ can be humorous, their implications are anything but. Besides the validity of the science, however, there are a few other ways that participating in a predatory conference can be harmful:

• Waste of a researcher’s/institution’s funding; may financially prevent researchers from attending legitimate conferences
• Predatory entities may gain copyright for scientists’ research (depending on the copyright agreement)
• Participation may damage a researcher’s reputation
• Loss of internal motivation for professional development...

https://medicine.cabells.com/our-news/predatory-conferences-a-lesser-known-but-no-less-dangerous-predatory-publishing-scam?vgo_ee=1GptHY1Lqz0iTBmpSNKq29ZTM1ZkTjd1%2BYrRuSm86aizR%2FbkSQcuTceBzw1zY%2BZ1

Dear Lygia Therese Budnik, predatory journals — even the term is controversial — have been a vexing problem for many years, and have certainly been a subject of coverage at Retraction Watch and elsewhere.

A new book is presented, The Predator Effect: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Deceptive Academic Journals, by Simon Linacre. The citations in the text can be found in the book, which is available open access...

Our article was cited in this book. Excellent resource!

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/11/08/deceptive-academic-journals-an-excerpt-from-the-predator-effect/

https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/gm80hx851?locale=en#/6/6[title]!/4[Title]/2/2/4/1:0

Consequences of Participating in Questionable Academia: A Global Survey of Authors of Journal Articles and Conference Presentations

This study investigates how accusations directed at so-called predatory publishers and organisers of questionable conferences relate to the actual experiences of individual researchers who have chosen to work with such publishers and companies. The claims made in the literature on questionable academia highlight its negative impact on the reputation of science while omitting to mention whether such publication choices result in harms or benefits for the authors themselves...

Conference Paper Consequences of Participating in Questionable Academia: A Gl...

This paper critically analyses the effects of predatory publishing as a major contributor to misinformation and disinformation amongst academicians and learners in developing countries...

This paper established that predatory publishing has great consequences in the spread of misinformation and disinformation amongst academicians and Learners in Developing Countries. Some of the reasons that necessitate the increase in predatory publishing in developing countries are; the lack of proper policies or guidance on where research articles should or should not be published, the failure to embrace open access initiatives for visibility and dissemination of research outputs so as to discourage academic malpractice and unethical behaviors, lack of funds, poor or limited information literacy among other factors...

Article Predatory Publishing: A Catalyst of Misinformation and Disin...