And the journal editorial board SPAM continues - Austin Biology

Editorial Board Membership: Austin Biology

Dear Dr. Jonathan A Eisen,

Greetings!

Based on your previous experience & publications, we would like to invite you to join the editorial board of the journal “Austin Biology”.

About the journal

Austin Biology is an international scholarly, peer reviewed Open Access journal, aims to promote the research in all the related fields of pure and applied Biology. Austin Biology is a comprehensive Open Access peer reviewed Journal that covers multidisciplinary fields of Biology.

Website Links

Journal home page: http://austinpublishinggroup.com/biology/

Our aim is to publish the latest information & provide a platform for all Biology for mutual exchange of ideas, thoughts.

If you are interested please provide short CV and contact details with expertise keywords of your ongoing research work

Kindly let us know your interest to join the eminent team.

Best Regards,

Joe Kaitlyn
Editorial office - Austin Biology
#46 Casselberry Way,
Monroe Township,
NEW JERSEY 08831,USA
Tel: +1-201-655-7075

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Today in SPAMMY "submit to our journal" invites

Got this today

Dear Colleague,

Greetings for the day.

It gives us immense pleasure in appreciating you for your valuable research work focusing on new trends of technology.

Your publication entitled “Introducing W.A.T.E.R.S.: a Workflow for the Alignment, Taxonomy, and Ecology of Ribosomal Sequences” is very informative and will be a great source for the scientific community.

Journal of Biometrics and Its Applications (JBIA) is a peer reviewed, open access journal which is ardent to promote and erudite research in the fields of Biometrics, Statistical Analysis, Biostatistics, Computer vision.

We cordially invite you to submit your valuable research work for publication in JBIA. It will be a great honor for us to be a part in the exploration of your research to the world and we believe that your contribution will be helpful in the growth of our journal.

Submit your manuscript via http://goo.gl/qTNrQn

You can visit us at JBIA

If you have any queries, please contact us.

We look forward for your affirmative response.


With Best Regards
Charles Wilson
Associate Managing Editor
Annex Publishers
Email: jbia@annexpublishinggroup.com

Umm - the paper you reference is from 2010 - not exactly the way to convince me you are cutting edge

YASEBI - Yet another SPAMMY editorial board invitation

Got this SPAMMY invite in the emails. Given that I work neither on Immunology or Immunotherapy this seems, well, SPAMMY.

Dear Dr. Jonathan Eisen,

The Journal of Immunology & Immunotherapy welcomes you!

Henry Publishing Group introduces you the Journal of Immunology & Immunotherapy. The journal is newly launched with an open access initiative to serve the scientific community globally. We welcome eminent scientific personalities, who are expertise in this field as editors to form the editorial board. 

Based on your expertise and contributions in this field, we request you to associate with us as an editor.  We would be happy if you could serve as an editor and help us for the growth and development of the journal.

Kindly go through the URL for journal online,

http://www.henrypublishinggroup.com/index.php/immunology

We are awaiting for your response regarding your opinion towards the position. If you are interested, please mail us your acceptance along with an updated CV, summary of research expertise and biography at immunology@henrypublishinggroup.org

Please let us know if you have any queries regarding this. I look forward to hear from you soon.

Hope to associate with you a long lasting and scientific relationship with you

With kind regards

Andy Lauer

Unit 3,

830 Manukau Rd,

Rayal Oak,

Auckland - 1061,

New Zealand      

Tel: +64 98010312

immunology@henrypublishinggroup.org

Today's Spammy journal Editorial Board Offer #1

Just got this - pretty lame given that, well, I do not do anything related to this journal.

Dear Dr.Jonathan A Eisen,   

Hope this mail brings you good health and prosperity 

Fisheries and Aquaculture Journal is successfully publishing quality open access journals with the support from scientists like you. We are aware of your reputation for quality of research and trustworthiness in the field of science and thereby we request you to be an Editorial Board Member of our Fisheries and Aqua culture Journal. It would be our immense pleasure to have you as one of our editorial board member. 

Please follow the below link for more information http://omicsonline.com/open-access/editorialboard-fisheries-and-aquaculture-journal-open-access.phpIf you are interested, you are requested to send 

• A recent passport size photo (to display at our website) 
• C.V
• Biography
• Research Interests for our records 

Kindly submit your details at editor.faj@omicsonline.net, editor.faj@omicsgroup.biz We look forward to a close and long lasting scientific relationship for the benefit of scientific community.Waiting for a positive response.

With Kind Regards,XXXEditorial Assistant 

Fisheries and aqua culture Journal7 

31 Gull Ave, 

Foster City CA 94404, USA

Science Journal SPAM of the Week: the Journal of HIV/AIDS from Sci Forschen

Well, got this email this AM.  It is yet another spammy journal (I don't work on HIV/AIDS).  I particularly like the part where I am called an "eminent personality".

Dear Dr. Jonathan Eisen,

Greetings from the Journal of HIV/AIDS,

We take great delight in inviting you to join the Editorial Board for the Journal of HIV/AIDS , which is an open access, peer reviewed journal managed by Sci Forschen.  Ensuring quality and accuracy for every submitted article is the top most priority for Sci Forschen, and we genuinely believe that someone with the knowledge and experience, such as yourself, can really make a huge difference for us.

Journal of HIV/AIDS , publishes cutting edge research work submitted by scholars from all over the world, and we believe that your presence will polished up with the help of illustrious experts in research field.

We are always striving to involve eminent personalities like you and your standing in the global community makes us confident.

Kindly let us know your valuable response and acceptance if possible with in 48 hours.

Please kindly submit your following particulars to update in our journal website

1. Updated CV
2. Passport Size Photo
3. Short Biography
4. Research Interest

Looking forward for your valuable and soon response.

Regards,

Editorial Office
Sci Forschen Incorporation
913 Catkin Ct.
San Jose, CA 95128, USA.

Spammy journal invite of the day: Journal of Immunology & Clinical Research!

I like sharing these SPAMMY journal invites on my blog so that when people google the name of the journal they might end up here.  Here is the latest invite I have gotten:

Dear Dr. Jonathan Eisen,Greetings from Journal of Immunology & Clinical Research!It is our privilege to invite you, in view of your scientific reputation and trustworthiness in your field, we would like to invite you to submit your valuable Research/Review/ Short communication/Perspective on your research area for publication in our upcoming issue.We have gone your latest quality research with work “ ”Journal of Immunology & Clinical Research is ardent to promote erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous research in the fields of Immunology & Clinical Research through open Access platform. This open access journal facilitates rapid publication with unlimited dissemination of knowledge to readers.As you are an eminent researcher we request you to support us.If you are interested, kindly let us know your possible date of submission.Anticipating your kind positive response, please revert promptly.Sincerely,
Thanks & Regards

Spammy journal of the day: Journal of Proteomics and Genomics ...

Just got this email posted below.  Certain aspects of it make me a little skeptical of the editorial quality of the journals from this publisher ... (highlighting a few parts done by me).

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Dear Dr.jonathan a. eisen,

Call for papers – to be published in the month of September and there on

Journal of Proteomics and Genomics

The scientific research is on its wheels now a day more than it has ever been. All the research and results are being accumulated enormously and in this race, you can come into lime light, only if you are noticeable enough. Are you sure the resource you have chosen provides you with such a benefit?
If you are not sure go through this list and make sure if you are at the right place, learn few facts to choose wisely when publishing your valuable research work:

1. Is it an open access online journal: Being online enhances the reachability of the journal worldwide and being open access means removing barriers for all the researchers, without any discrimination of dissipating the knowledge. (Subscription based is available only for who can afford.)
2. Does it provide xml files: Xml files are important for deposition into the repositories. Generally high prices are obtained for providing these files by publishing companies. (We provide free of cost.)
3. Proper communication and support during publication: The most important and the actual tyranny lies in publishing the research paper which is the sweat and time of your hardship. But it would be more hardship if you have to publish with a poorly communicating and non-supportive journal. (Our advanced online system enhances communication effectively.)
4. Through peer review of original and revised manuscripts: Value of your research paper is enhanced only if it is peer reviewed. (Peer review is one of the main quality element provided by us.)
5. Revision made easy: And the revision part out there is so terrific. (But with us it is easy due to the detailed comments of our reviewers.)
6. High profile experts with lot of experience: Editors with specialized expertize are an asset when dealing with scientific manuscripts. They can provide very accurate suggestions with experience and help improving the quality of the paper in-depth. (We are rich with them.)
7. Support for enhanced citations even after publishing : Paper has been published, everything is done, now what? Have you ever wondered what is happening with your paper? Is it reaching the required?  Not only social media but there are hundred other ways to get you to the right place. (The secret is only with us.)
8. Appropriate Fee : Open Access journals now a days cost nothing less than $1000. (We charge only $ 540)

Now if you wish to submit your manuscript and publish with us, please follow the below link, the call for papers is open and up 

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Note - I have not included the link so as to not in any way contribute to their Google Ranking.  But wow - journal spam is pooping up so often it is hard to keep up with it.

Dear Frontiers Journals - I am sick of your SPAM and I want nothing to do with you

Dear Frontiers Journals

Repeated unsolicited emails with no means to unsubscribe oneself (such as the one excerpted below) are SPAM. I like some aspects of the Frontiers journals but your email system has to be changed. I will not submit to or review for your journals until you make some commitment to stopping SPAMMING scientists.

Dear Dr Eisen, The article submission deadline for the Frontiers Research Topic, for which you received a call for participation, is approaching. If you are planning to submit a manuscript and you anticipate any delay beyond the deadline, please inform the Topic Editors and the Frontiers Editorial Office so they can manage the delay. If you have not yet responded to the call for participation or have not yet committed to a submission and you are planning to submit a manuscript, please let us know by responding to this message.

PS - the article alerts also have to stop. For F#*$@( sake clean up your act.

Scary and funny: fake researcher Peter Uhnemann on OMICS group Editorial Board #JournalSPAM

OMG.  This is both hilarious and terrifying.

Many out there know there are journals out there that border on SPAM.  I have written about this often before (e.g., see For $&%# sake, Bentham Open Journals, leave me alone and Yet another SPAMMY Science publisher: Scientific and Academic Publishing and The Tree of Life: Really sick of Bentham Open Spam) as have many others (e.g., Open and Shut?: The Open Access Interviews: Matthew Honan and Academic spam and open access publishing - Per Ola Kristensson). UPDATE: forgot to include this link: Science SPAMMER of the month: OMICS publishing group

But this one takes the cake.  There is a journal called "Molecular Biology" from the OMICS Publishing Group (for more on this publisher see Open and Shut?: The Open Access Interviews: OMICS Publishing ...).  It seems new - as I cannot find any publications - but you never know - maybe they have been around a while and just have not gotten any submissions.

UCDavis IT and GMail think this "Open Journal of Genetics" journal announcement is SPAM, I do too #EndScienceSpam

Just got this email which both Gmail and UC Davis systems think is SPAM (see below). It is from yet another new journal and the journal certainly seems a bit, well, off to me. I am posting such emails from journals like this in the hope that in Google search results people at least see some comments on the web at least asking questions about the quality of these journals. I do not know any details about this journal but I note I could not find any actual description of their licensing/copyright policies and all the papers list the copyright as belonging to the journal.  This seems to me to be unlikely to fit the standard definition of "open access" though it is very hard to tell from their website. 

Draft post cleanup #9: Open Access spam from Bentham

Yet another post in my "draft blog post cleanup" series.  Here is #9; from June 2008.  It can in a way be viewed as an extension of my post from a few days ago about Bentham.  Here is what I wrote in 2008:

OK, I know I am supposed to be supportive of Open Access journals, just because a journal is OA does not mean it is OK. Take "The Open Evolution Journal." being published by Bentham.

On paper, this could be a useful contribution to the list of OA journals. They have some good people on their Editorial Board and I am glad to see such a big list of people in Evolution seemingly supporting OA publishing.

And Bentham is certainly doing the OA talk and pushing OA as a major option for their publications. In fact, they might be pushing OA a bit too much. For example, in their letter to me they say

All published open access articles will receive massive international exposure and as is usually the case for open access publications, articles will also receive high citations.

Hmm. A bit over the top no? I love OA mind you. But OA in and of itself does not guarantee citations and exposure.

Bentham publisher - so wrong in some many ways #SPAM

I have written about Bentham - that Spam bots of science publishing before.   Got an email from them today - it is wrong in so many ways.  I thought I would just post it here - and let people judge for themselves but am a bit wary of calling attention to them and putting out any of their message.  So I am going to put out mine

BENTHAM - LEAVE ME THE $&%#@ ALONE

And if that is not enough for you, how about reading Richard Poynder's piece on them from four years ago.  Seems they have not changed a bit.

Science SPAMMER of the month: OMICS publishing group

Well, Science SPAM never seems to go away. Not sure exactly why it seems to come in waves, but recently I have been getting a lot of email messages from the OMICS publishing group OMICS Publishing Group: An Open Access Publisher

The latest is for the Journal of Bioanalysis & Biomedicine. I love how the message says

"This is not a spam message, and has been sent to you because of your eminence in the field. "

Interestingly, this is the EXACT same wording in messages I used to receive from the horrible Bentham OPEN group. (see one of my complaining posts about this here). I wonder, did Bentham somehow morph into OMICS publishing group? OMICS Publishing group is also trying to promote itself as an Open Access publisher in much the same way Bentham does. I hope for everyone's sake they are not connected since the last thing we need is more SPAM out there. Anyway, since I have gotten a bunch of emails from various OMICS journals many of which I have no possible scientific connection to, I am giving OMICS my "Science SPAMMER of the month award".

Really sick of Bentham Open Spam

Once again, I am getting sick of getting email after email from various Bentham Open Journals like the one below.  This is basically a form of SPAM as they send these out to people no matter what the connection is to the journals field.  I like how they now emphasize that "Please note that submission of a manuscript is not a guarantee for acceptance for publication"

This likely has something to do with the recent controversy over a Bentham Open journal accepting a nonsense paper .

Just goes to show you that just as their are annoying commercial journals and annoying society journals, there certainly are annoying open access journals.  And many Bentham journals take the prize for being as annoying as they come.  Perhaps not all Bentham journals are like this, but I get spam-like email from dozens of them ... and do not get any from other Open Access journals.

Dr. J.A. Eisen

Institute for Genomic Research Rockville MD 20850

United States

Dear Dr. Eisen,

I am writing to you in my capacity as the Editor-in-Chief of Current Molecular Pharmacology, which is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed journal published by Bentham Science Publishers. Bentham Science publishes more than 300 print and open access journals.

Current Molecular Pharmacology is in its second volume and is indexed by all major indexing media includingChemical Abstracts, EMBASE, Genamics JournalSeek, Scopus, etc. The journal's homepage may be viewed athttp://www.currmolpharm.org

The journal invites contributions for both comprehensive review articles and guest edited issues in all areas of cellular and molecular pharmacology with a major emphasis on the mechanism of action of novel drugs under development, innovative pharmacological technologies, cell signaling, transduction pathway analysis, genomics, proteomics, and metabonomics applications to drug action.

It is a great pleasure to invite you to contribute to Current Molecular Pharmacology. If you wish to submit your work to the journal, then please provide us the title and an abstract (up to 250 words) of your article by email toeditorial@currmolpharm.org You may submit the full article.

Please note that submission of a manuscript is not a guarantee for acceptance for publication, as all manuscripts will be subjected to peer review. Each prospective first-named (corresponding) author will receive a limited number of free reprints and PDF of the paper.

Please could you also refer the journal to your colleagues and other contacts in the field, including your librarian, for promotional purposes. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Nouri Neamati,

Editor-in-Chief CMP

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