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Quote from: mamselle on July 11, 2022, 08:07:28 AM
Maybe we need a "Retraction Watch" thread?

These guys just got put in the corner:

   https://retractionwatch.com/2022/07/05/our-deepest-apology-journal-retracts-30-likely-paper-mill-articles-after-investigation-published-by-retraction-watch/

M.

I'm in an allied health field and did a bit of my clinical training with one of the "big, swinging dix" in the field.  He would have drug reps write review articles on the newest and greatest antibiotics with bunches of z's and q's and x's in their names and submit them under his own name.  After I graduated I was an external reviewer on such a paper.  Apparently the journal was in on the dodge since said paper went through the alleged "peer review" process like grease through a goose.  I really wonder what peer review is worth.   Perhaps caveat lector would be simpler and readers can sort the wheat from the chaff on their own.

FWIW Dr. Big Swinging drove a hot shit German sports car thanks to all the contract "research" he did. 

Science may not be broken but it's got hella big problems.

A little OT, but rather than a new thread:

I just got a come-on for a predatorial society that has potential.

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With a "journal" within a "journal", this one has promise:

IJPERA Journal: International Journal of Precious Engineering Research and Application Journal

Sadly, aside from promising that my peer reviewed journal article would be published within 48 hours and searchable by "search Engine like Google," this particular journal come-on did not rise to the level of its peers sufficiently to entice me to submit my precious research.

Double post, almost a year later.

I recently received an invitation to publish my research in the "inaugural issue for the Iris Journal of Astronomy and Satellite Communications (IJASC)."  This is like asking someone from Greenpeace to publish in "Journal of Arctic Wildlife and the Oil and Gas Industry." What are they thinking?

I'm stunned (and a little saddened, I guess) that this thread is still going strong.

I was about to start a new job when I started this thread, and look at that, I'm about to start a new job now!

QuoteDear Dr. Wahoo,



I am writing to you from the editorial office of the Journal of Integrative Neuroscience –

JIN (ISSN: 0219-6352, https://imrpress.com/journal/JIN).



Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (JIN) is an international peer-reviewed, open access journal.

The journal is devoted to publishing leading-edge research in all areas of neuroscience. It has been

indexed in SCIE, PubMed, Scopus and other databases. JIN's latest impact factor in 2022 is 1.8.


We are setting up a Research Topic about "The Brain Under Fatigue" and are inviting experts in this

field to solicit manuscripts. We believe you could make an excellent contribution based on your expertise.

Therefore, I would like to humbly invite you to contribute a paper to JIN.

The submission deadline is 28 February 2024.

 

If you are interested to contribute, we encourage you to send a tentative title and abstract to me

(elaine.oh@imrpress.com), or just reply this email. You will get feedback very shortly. You could also

directly submit your paper with the link: https://imr.propub.com and kindly inform me the Manuscript Number,

I'll inform the editorial office to process it as soon as possible.

 

Please feel free to contact us if you are interested and would like further details, or have any questions.

   

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Kind regards,   
Ms. Elaine Oh
Commissioning Editor
Email: elaine.oh@imrpress.com 
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
News: JIN received its updated Impact Factor, 1.8 (2022)!

QuoteDear Ms. Oh, thank you so much for the invitation. 

It is true that I do not have a great deal of published research in this area, but I hope that my small contributions can be of use to other people with Ph.D.s, as a Ph.D. in any subject whatsoever, whether or not the degree-in-question has anything to do with neuroscience, seems to be the one gatekeeping credential required for publication for your journal.

Please find my abstract pasted below:

"My Brain Under Fatigue": A Personal Recollection

My brain is, indeed, fatigued.  It has been fatigued for a very long time.  And it is getting more fatigued every day.  At some point, my brain is simply going to devolve into an exhausted curdled mush, a process exacerbated by the fishing expeditions of predatory publishers which use AI that is incapable of telling the difference between its ass and a data point.

Thank you again, and I hope that you find my contribution worthy.

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on November 10, 2023, 08:52:57 PM"My Brain Under Fatigue": A Personal Recollection

My brain is, indeed, fatigued.  It has been fatigued for a very long time.  And it is getting more fatigued every day.  At some point, my brain is simply going to devolve into an exhausted curdled mush, a process exacerbated by the fishing expeditions of predatory publishers which use AI that is incapable of telling the difference between its ass and a data point.

Thanks for making the effort to provide this excellent response. I have had the motivation, but have been too mentally fatigued, to try something similar. Now you have done what is so desperately needed. An important intellectual contribution.

Quote from: Hibush on November 11, 2023, 05:45:36 AM

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on November 10, 2023, 08:52:57 PM"My Brain Under Fatigue": A Personal Recollection

My brain is, indeed, fatigued.  It has been fatigued for a very long time.  And it is getting more fatigued every day.  At some point, my brain is simply going to devolve into an exhausted curdled mush, a process exacerbated by the fishing expeditions of predatory publishers which use AI that is incapable of telling the difference between its ass and a data point.

Thanks for making the effort to provide this excellent response. I have had the motivation, but have been too mentally fatigued, to try something similar. Now you have done what is so desperately needed. An important intellectual contribution.

Look —- now it's been peer-reviewed!

Quote from: sinenomine on November 11, 2023, 05:51:13 AM

Quote from: Hibush on November 11, 2023, 05:45:36 AM

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on November 10, 2023, 08:52:57 PM"My Brain Under Fatigue": A Personal Recollection

My brain is, indeed, fatigued.  It has been fatigued for a very long time.  And it is getting more fatigued every day.  At some point, my brain is simply going to devolve into an exhausted curdled mush, a process exacerbated by the fishing expeditions of predatory publishers which use AI that is incapable of telling the difference between its ass and a data point.

Thanks for making the effort to provide this excellent response. I have had the motivation, but have been too mentally fatigued, to try something similar. Now you have done what is so desperately needed. An important intellectual contribution.

Look —- now it's been peer-reviewed!

Does that mean that my abstract has been accepted?

But I'm so damn fatigued...

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on November 11, 2023, 02:22:28 PM

Quote from: sinenomine on November 11, 2023, 05:51:13 AM

Quote from: Hibush on November 11, 2023, 05:45:36 AM

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on November 10, 2023, 08:52:57 PM"My Brain Under Fatigue": A Personal Recollection

My brain is, indeed, fatigued.  It has been fatigued for a very long time.  And it is getting more fatigued every day.  At some point, my brain is simply going to devolve into an exhausted curdled mush, a process exacerbated by the fishing expeditions of predatory publishers which use AI that is incapable of telling the difference between its ass and a data point.

Thanks for making the effort to provide this excellent response. I have had the motivation, but have been too mentally fatigued, to try something similar. Now you have done what is so desperately needed. An important intellectual contribution.

Look —- now it's been peer-reviewed!

Does that mean that my abstract has been accepted?

But I'm so damn fatigued...

This has been the funniest thing I have read in a while. Thanks all!

I too often get the ridiculous solicitations for submitting papers to journals that have absolutely nothing in any way to do with my expertise. But hey, if I was desperate for a publication and/or a laugh, and had an extra $1500 laying around to hand to a predatory journal, I am sure they would publish just about anything...

It warms my cold heart that this thread is still going. It may outlive me

Quote from: Scout on November 14, 2023, 12:01:31 PMIt warms my cold heart that this thread is still going. It may outlive me

The competition among the predatory journals is intensifying, so they are having to get more creative with their come-ons. I think this thread is destined for a long and productive life.

Quote from: bio-nonymous on November 14, 2023, 07:13:59 AM

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on November 11, 2023, 02:22:28 PM

Quote from: sinenomine on November 11, 2023, 05:51:13 AM

Quote from: Hibush on November 11, 2023, 05:45:36 AM

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on November 10, 2023, 08:52:57 PM"My Brain Under Fatigue": A Personal Recollection

My brain is, indeed, fatigued.  It has been fatigued for a very long time.  And it is getting more fatigued every day.  At some point, my brain is simply going to devolve into an exhausted curdled mush, a process exacerbated by the fishing expeditions of predatory publishers which use AI that is incapable of telling the difference between its ass and a data point.

Thanks for making the effort to provide this excellent response. I have had the motivation, but have been too mentally fatigued, to try something similar. Now you have done what is so desperately needed. An important intellectual contribution.

Look —- now it's been peer-reviewed!

Does that mean that my abstract has been accepted?

But I'm so damn fatigued...

This has been the funniest thing I have read in a while. Thanks all!

I too often get the ridiculous solicitations for submitting papers to journals that have absolutely nothing in any way to do with my expertise. But hey, if I was desperate for a publication and/or a laugh, and had an extra $1500 laying around to hand to a predatory journal, I am sure they would publish just about anything...

TO be fair, that is a pretty good deal.  Many of the "legit" open access journals in STEM charge over $3000 publishing fees.

I am having a really hard time qualifying any publisher as not being predatory these days. 

We recently had a paper rejected by a Springer journal that dosnt have processing fees and they enthusiastically recommended that we submit the paper to one of their other journals that just happens to charge thousands in processing charges.  How considerate of them.

To me, the whole academic publishing system is broken and largely predatory.  Some publishers are just more obvious about it.

"Legit" publications can sometimes slide over into predatory behavior, all right.  An example would be the American Who's Who series.  In the pre-internet days they were a legitimate reference tool found at any serious academic library or large public library.  They were considered very much apart from all the imitators that were essentially just vanity books that people bought to see their name celebrated.  In recent decades, though, they've become much like those vanity books.  Some libraries still maintain an expensive subscription to them out of habit, but from what I understand they're no longer a serious reference publication.

Quote from: apl68 on January 04, 2024, 07:36:06 AM"Legit" publications can sometimes slide over into predatory behavior, all right.  An example would be the American Who's Who series.  In the pre-internet days they were a legitimate reference tool found at any serious academic library or large public library.  They were considered very much apart from all the imitators that were essentially just vanity books that people bought to see their name celebrated.  In recent decades, though, they've become much like those vanity books.  Some libraries still maintain an expensive subscription to them out of habit, but from what I understand they're no longer a serious reference publication.

Ha!  One of the adjuncts with an online PhD at my old Toxic U paid to have hu's name included in the Who's Who and then had the certificate framed and hung it on the wall of hu's office hu shared with other adjuncts.