#PredatoryJournal

2025-10-20

Hatt zufällig jemand Zugriff auf dieses Paper? doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.12212
Ja, ich weiß, dass es Indizien gibt, dass das ein #PredatoryJournal ist, aber ich muss da trotzdem mal reinschauen.
Irgendwie scheint #scihub nichts mehr zu haben.

EN: Does anyone has this paper: doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.12212
:boost_ok: #boostok #followerpower

#MissingPaper #CanIHazPaper #Academia #AcademicChatter #Science

Charlotte Atencaten@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-29

I think these predatory journals are really onto something with this idea that they should tell us how much of their «Original Article(s)» are allowed to be plagiarized.

#academia #publishing #PredatoryJournal

A screenshot of an email message which reads as follows:

Prevented spam messages
Sender: mnagerjournalg98@rediffmail.com
Subject: Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15% including references. (2) article is within scope of the journal. (3) article is original and result oriented.
César Pallares :damnified:copdeb@metalhead.club
2025-04-28

#PredatoryJournal is a complex issue. I consider that we should focus on two things: 1. Support researchers before they submit a Paper, 2. Reform #ResearchAssessment

I'm against generalizations in this subject.

2025-04-22

Kommen wir zu #Reviewer2 .

Jetzt merke ich, warum der Editor gewarnt hat.

Reviewer2 bewertet mit "minor Revisions" also durchaus okaye Arbeit.

Satz 1 seines Reviews:
"Es ist erforderlich, dass die Autor*innen folgende zwei relevante Arbeiten zitieren:
doi.org/10.3390/xxxx
doi.org/10.3390/yyyy ."

Habe nachgeschaut. Ich kenne jetzt Reviewer2.
Und es sind (mMn) auch keine richtige Veröffentlichungen, sondern es gehört zu einem #Raubjournal (#predatoryJournal).

Ansonsten hält sich der Reviewer zurück und weist nur auf zwei drei kleinere Punkte hin.

ZB MEDZBMED
2025-03-14

Was tun, wenn ihr euer Manuskript versehentlich bei einem Predatory Journal eingereicht habt?
Welche Strategien ihr anwenden könnt und wie ihr am besten damit umgeht, erklären wir euch im neuen QuIX.

2025-02-01

Yet another shoddy #Elsevier journal sending me chemistry or chemical engineering papers to review.

(Narrator: he was not a chemical engineer, chemist, or anything chemist adjacent. In fact, his only chemistry related skill was once putting out a fire in high school chemistry )

To add insult to injury, it includes some attempt at an NDA, and sign over of
rights

"You must not share your review or information about the review process with anyone without the agreement of the editors and authors involved, irrespective of the publication outcome. If the manuscript is rejected by this journal and the
author agrees that the submission be transferred to another Elsevier journal
via the Article Transfer Service, we may securely transfer your reviewer
comments and name/contact details to the receiving journal editor for their
peer review purposes."

OK Rongjun Chen and the Chemical Engineering Journal, I'm sharing your shoddy referee selection process. Come at me bro.

#PaperMill #PredatoryJournal #AcademicSpam

Christopher Kybaskyglowberlin@vis.social
2024-12-29

This is weird, two papers with the same name. The new one appears to be a plagiarized version of the old one, but the text is different. (Perhaps edited with a LLM?)

What do you think is the point here - is the idea to siphon off citations intended for the other paper? Are the authors real, or is the whole thing just made up as fake data for a predatory journal?

Why change the text, but not the title?

#Academia #Plagiarism #AcademicPublishing #PredatoryJournal

Title page of original paper from 2021Title page of new paper from 2024 (with same title).Figure 1 from the original paper.Figure 1 from the "new" paper, which is identical Figure 1 from the original paper.
César Pallares :damnified:copdeb@metalhead.club
2024-12-10

Hey,

A proff. from an Colombian institution published a paper in a #PredatoryJournal. When he realized of that, he tried to retire the article from the journal and now the publisher is charging him to retire the document.

What can the proff. do in this case?

I've known of similar situations before, but I've never heard of a solution

#OpenAccess

Lars Leichertsalzbrot
2024-12-02

My Junk E-Mail folder today (I had to look into it because of an unrelated issue). All requests to write or review articles, or to serve as editorial member for poop journals 💩.

And those are only the ones that got caught in the spam filter 🚮. There are plenty more of those that make it into my inbox on an almost hourly basis.

The overview of my junk e-mail folder. At least once per hour during the last 10 hours I received junk mail related to scientific publishing. These are requests to submit articles, to review articles, or even to serve as editorial board member of trashy journals that clearly do not fall into the realm of my expertise.
John PickeringKiwiskiNZ@mastodon.nz
2024-04-09

How to spot dodgy emails from dodgy academic journals just after your money, Rule number 173:
When it is from Kevin Spacey.

The Journal of Intelligent Communication is now on my autodelete list.
#PredatoryJournal #AcademicSpam

2024-04-03

Sometime #PredatoryJournal are funny with 1998 websites

2024-02-28

Getting way too many spam invitations to submit a manuscript (17+ today) or to speak at a conference. Trying to train my spam filter to recognize them, but it only caught 11 of them today. Wish there was an effective way to filter out all of them.
#PredatoryJournal #Spam

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2023-12-13

Wow! Very Potential! So mRNA!

If we make everything about money and profits, I guess we can't be surprised it gets infested with scams.

#PredatoryJournal #PredatoryJournals #Publishing #ScientificPublishing

Email from a predatory journal with this text:

Dear Dr. Lukáš V. F. Novák

Seasonal Greetings!

We are delighted to go through your article entitled “Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria”, which is very potential. mRNA

Can you submit a Mini-review or Short commentary based on your previous publication?

We also accept Research/ Review/ Case reports for our upcoming issue?

If you are interested, please submit through this mail as an attachment

Best Regards,
Editorial Team
Journal of Molecular Pathology and Biochemistry
2023-12-01

If you are considering publishing in a scientific journal that you don't know and want to avoid feeding predatory journals, a helpful website is
thinkchecksubmit.org/

Also useful:
doaj.org/
(directory of quality checked open access journals)

#openaccess #PredatoryJournal

Christopher Kybaskyglowberlin@vis.social
2023-11-02
| came across your article entitled “The benefit of multiple angle observations for visible band remote sensing using night lights”.

Your research was very impressive and fits in our journal scope (Geology, Marine Science, Environmental Science, Earth, Atmospheric Science, Astrology etc...). If you are interested, | would like to invite you to submit your full-length paper for publication in the journal.

Kindly submit your manuscript on or before November 18, 2023.
Bjørn Sætreviksatrevik@fediscience.org
2023-10-02

Hey potentially predatory journals: Telling me that you have recently invited me to peer-review (when you haven't actually done so), and that you are now following-up on my lack of response... It's not having the effect you hoped it would have.
#PeerReview #AcademicJournal
#PredatoryJournal
#PredatoryPublishing
#AcademicChatter

Ethin (moved account)ethinethin@fosstodon.org
2023-09-27

Another day, another “final opportunity” email from a #PredatoryJournal. Surprisingly not #MDPI today! #AcademicChatter

Open Science PasteurOpenSci_Pasteur@sciences.re
2023-09-27

#OSFAIR2023 panel on Emerging #PublishingModels
Emmanuel Kulczycki proposes a new term: "mislocated centers of scholarly communication" instead of #PredatoryPublisher or #PredatoryJournal

2023-03-17

A snippet from one of my spam emails this morning to make you smile...

"Your belief in my efforts will create the good reputation for my Journal. I believe in you that your eminent manuscript will turn my life, help to achieve higher position and better rank.

I hope to rejoice this week with your article."

Unfortunately, they won't be rejoicing.

#Spam #PredatoryJournal #Manuscript #Article #Academia @academicchatter

2023-03-03

In the past week I've received academic spam requests from Johnny Depp and George Orwell

#academia #academicSpam #predatoryJournal #research #academics

Screen capture of spam email from "George Orwell" to submit a research papeScreen capture of spam email from "Johnny Depp" to submit a research paper

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