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- Yesuser-1802431. to publish articles with a discount on the publication fee
2. to be guest editor of special issues not necessarily close to my expertise
3. to be in the editorial board (among several hundreds other colleagues) - Yesuser-615884Contacted almost once a week.
- Yesuser-15180I receive daily invitations to publish from many predatory journals, even outside my area of expertise.
- Yesuser-208008Almost every day I get asked to submit an article. Often it is completely unrelated to what I do. I have contacted them before and then they say it costs $2500 or something like that.
- Yesuser-47966Several times, have not actively responded.
- Yesuser-210850Multiple times per week
- Yesuser-928009I receive in average 2 requests per day
- Yesuser-570110Few journals contacted me to offer their authorship for articles by paying money.
- Yesuser-362611Multiple predatory journals everyday
- Yesuser-645616they send me e-mails in a daily basis to publish my work with them
- Yesuser-23909830+ emails a day easily.
- Yesuser-412773Every single day I get from five to 15 predatory solicitations. It is a mass submission of emails, from everywhere.
- Yesuser-561710i am not too sure what the details were but we had been invited to submit something to a journal and last minute we found out it was a predatory journal so decided to submit elsewhere.
- Yesuser-104996Several of them. Such emails normally come inviting you when you published an article or a new article.
- Yesuser-688273I am emailed several times EVERY DAY by predatory journals.
- Yesuser-776568I have been asked to publish, review and edit papers in predatory journals
- Yesuser-45613A number of journals clearly out of my area of expertise and with shady reputation sought my manuscripts via junk e-mails.
- Yesuser-433063Ive been solicited by predatory journals multiple times.
- Yesuser-192220I received email from suspected predatory journals.
- Yesuser-865400Many requests on a daily basis
- Yesuser-856876Review and specual issue guest invitation
- Yesuser-523578An unknown medical journal would solicit a scientific contribution with guaranteed publication.
- Yesuser-414245Solicitations are common.
- Yesuser-106770Despite asking a position of the journal, not any answer.
Keep receiving invitation from predatory journal. - Yesuser-267614Yes, I have been approached by numerous predatory journals, especially after publishing my first article.
- Yesuser-275661I get at least ten requests a day. Usually, they say "Please submit something this week so we can fill our upcoming volume". Their prices are not the $50-100 mentioned in the link. Instead, I see them requestion "top dollar" - $2000?
- Yesuser-287804I receive invitation to submit a manuscript to a predatory Journal several times per months. There are also many similar invitations in my spam folder; however, I don't track those.
- Yesuser-585531Constantly, almost every day I get emails from predatory journals.
- Yesuser-164770by mail
- Yesuser-733767every day i receive emails of predatory journals
- Yesuser-611301Several times. This has become very common these days.
- Yesuser-336070Daily via email. Also, I’ve been seeing more invitations to sham conferences too
- Yesuser-674576The predatory journal is relatively easy to spot because of the way they address their emails, poor use of my name and titles. Also, frequently the journal's focus has nothing to do with my area of expertise.
- Yesuser-757617Frequently looking for publications for their journals
- Yesuser-370736Almost get every day, several emails from predatory journals which claim that they have five impact factor they have 10 impact factor, whereas that is their first issue.
2. Some journals, Emails that they are short of article for their next issue. So submit 1 article.
3. Some journals claim some different types of impact factors which have no meaning.
4. Some journals claim that they are international journals, but are published from some local publishers.
4. Some journals claim that submitted article that will be published in 24 to 48 hours.
5. There are many such type of emails which we get almost every day. - Yesuser-89669It depends on how one defines them, but yest I get emails almost daily from obscure journals...
- Yesuser-866827Constantly receive emails for these journals
- Yesuser-998570They often ask to send papers or prepare topics for Special Issues
- Yesuser-284209Receive solicitations almost daily.
- Yesuser-495957I receive a constant stream of solicitations to submit papers to predatory journals. Most are successfully diverted to my junk mail folder, but enough get through to be annoying. My greater concern is the confusion they cause by using names very similar to reputable journals, sometimes tricking less experienced investigators.
- Yesuser-45900They request a submit a manuscript to them
- Yesuser-856050I was invited by email and WhatsApp.
- Yesuser-778496I get such unsolicited emails from unqualified journals on a daily basis.
- Yesuser-44495I get several emails a week from 'predatory' journals
- Yesuser-475346I think so. I did not respond with a submission, so it's hard to know for sure, but I get a solicitation a couple times a week from journals completely outside of my specialty area, which makes me suspicious regarding their motives, especially when in the context of high publication fees.
"Maybe, but I'm not sure" or "I don't know" would be good options to consider adding to future versions of the survey - Yesuser-695643Multiple times. They are very persistent
- Yesuser-609468Everyday by numéros email
- YesUser-850922I receive multiple email to submit manuscripts to predatory journal. It is very annoying.
- Yesuser-594363Daily getting lots of e-mails from journals and conferences
- Yesuser-284533As soon as one of my papers/preprints come out, I get an onslaught of "academic spam" emails - inviting me to publish with them, for really high fees.
- Yesuser-145569Many times per day
- Yesuser-141640I receive e-mails from predatory journals in a regular basis.
- Yesuser-445202Várias tentativas de oferta para publicação rápida a preços absurdos em franco suíço.
- Yesuser-382369Every day I receive at least five e mails from predatory journals inviting me to submit manuscripts. I disregard every invitation.
I think science publication has evolved into a commercial activity. This has to change although I have no clues as to how to proceed. - Yesuser-962329Ask for a contribution by way of a publication. Offer me a place on the board. Offer reduced fees.
- Yesuser-553491Usually several every day.
- Yesuser-570291Many emails requesting articles
- Yesuser-169526The journals (more than 1) sent dozen of invitations throughout the month.
- Yesuser-851905Have received numerous email requests.
- Yesuser-536513I receive invitations to publish (re-publish) information that they apparently come up with from recent review articles.
- Yesuser-938667Too many to list.
- Yesuser-358384every day!
- Yesuser-990457Usually via email, sometimes via Linkedin.
- Yesuser-25985Fully agree with author opinion.
- Yesuser-153764There seems to be an entire [parallel universe] of organizations that purport to organize scientific conferences on various medical/toxicology topics. These groups in my experience are primarily from Asian countries. The organizer gathers 1 or 2 reputable scientists then uses those names to recruit other speakers. Never is there an offer to cover travel and per diem but always there is a high dollar registration fee that covers the meeting and post-meeting publication in an obscure journal.
- Nouser-585934Generally, when a journal contacts me for a review, I try to see if it meets the minimum criteria for being a good journal. If not, I decline the invitation.
- Yesuser-369733Yes. I received multiple unsolicited emails from journals with dubious credentials, promising quick publication and high impact factors. The emails were poorly written and came from suspicious domains, often urging immediate submission without proper peer review or editorial standards.
- Yesuser-337025High publication fees
- Yesuser-948023I have received many emails from predatory journals and publishers to submit a manuscript for an upcoming issue.
- Yesuser-957269Every day I receive invitations from predatory journals
- Yesuser-812398Have invitations by these journals on a daily basis.
- Yesuser-559569Multiple times.
- Yesuser-828172These tend to be journals claiming to have an IF and featured in PubMed (or equivalent). Invariably, there's an APC
- Yesuser-319109I am constantly receiving predatory journal requests for manuscripts and international conference presentations. These come via email and are the bulk of items in my junk email folder.
- Yesuser-821523repeated emails
- Yesuser-774962There's nothing to explain. Most of the requests have no bearing on my interests or expertise despite them saying that I was being solicited because of my esteemed excellence is the field that is being addressed.
- Yesuser-608413Many e-mails inviting me to submmit a paper on journals without clearly information
- Yesuser-698496I get regular requests to submit a paper to jurnals with citation scores of 1 or 2 and little relevance to my area of research
- Yesuser-109201For fast publication rather overnight publication with nominal article processing charges.
However, I denied and tagged spam message. - Yesuser-548458I received several invitations everyday to submit my papers to Predatory Journals.
- Yesuser-887623Nearly every day I receive emails from predatory journals.
- Yesuser-692508I routinely get requests for manuscripts from predatory journals
- Yesuser-989251I receive emails every day from predatory journal either for publication or to belong to their editorial board.
- Yesuser-309520I have received solicitations from journals that I do not recognize.
- Yesuser-764600Rkughly between 15-30 emails/day despite blocking
- Yesuser-924219Receive such solicitations at least weekly
- Yesuser-5012This happened many tiomes sonce 2020
- Yesuser-339251yes quite often
- Yesuser-925409I get requests to submit publications on almost a daily basis. The requests are gratuitous, use incorrect grammar, have relatively short submission dates, and usually cost money (usually above $1000). If I have something to submit (which is rare since I am retired), I would submit to journals where I've published in the past (e.g, Crititcal Reviews in Toxicology or Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology).
- Yesuser-689147I have received emails asking for me to contribute an article for an issue coming out in a short time frame (a couple of weeks). This has occurred from multiple different journals. There have also been journals asking to republish a version of a prior article.
- Yesuser-916060I have received tons of emails from them.
- Yesuser-225569Normally they track your recent publications and invite you to submit papers or proposals but when our team researches the ranking of some of them the scope of the journal or their ranking reveals the true reason for the call
- Yesuser-270900This kind of daily emails I receive
- Yesuser-613901I was solicited by a predatory jounral
- Yesuser-878092Many times a week.
- Yesuser-274187at least 5 per day
- Yesuser-927811I get daily emails from predatory journals about publishing with them. Many often aren't even in my field of expertise.
They are easy to identify, but very annoying as they fill my inbox with lots of spam. - Yesuser-861466about 2-3 per week
- Yesuser-813332I get about 7 requests a week to submit articles to "I-know-not-what" journals. They just want publishing costs which is a direct product of the usual journals now using publishing as a business rather than as support for the research community.
- Yesuser-836889yes, through email
- Yesuser-685143They sent a request for submitting manuscript with high rate acceptance and quick accepted speed.
- Yesuser-566545I receive multiple emails a week asking me to submit to journals that I have not heard of, but the nature of the email or quick research demonstrates them to be predatory.
- Yesuser-266855I constantly receive email invitations to submit articles to a range of journals, many without any credentials.
- Yesuser-497412I received several unsolicited email invitations to contribute an article. They cited some of my articles and said they were impressed with them. Plus, they offer discounted publication fees and a fast turnaround time, which leads me to think the peer-review process is circumvented.
- Yesuser-921990I receive up to 10 messages per week from predatory publishers.
- Yesuser-529313Emails just about every day to submit something to their journal
- Yesuser-244325I frequently receive emails from predatory journals - usually they email my personal (not institutional) email address, and I get maybe 1 per week.
- Yesuser-469309On many occasions, it become regular practice for me to clear these emails
- Yesuser-193278Routinely receive unsolicited emails as well as messages on LinkedIn
- Yesuser-797934I recieve emails from such journals on my work email daily and sometimes more than one a day
- Yesuser-616368Normally, I answer that I am too busy to contribute
- Yesuser-697831I have been solicited several times and I am solicited almost every day. It is boring and unfair.
- Yesuser-740365Predatory journals get access to our email addresses from the papers we have published. Every morning when I open my email, I am confronted with at least 5 of these journals everyday, asking me to publish with them
- Yesuser-544568I was solicited by several predatory journals
- Yesuser-742102I constantly receive emails asking for contributions to different kinds of journals
- Yesuser-672631Many, many, many times!
- Yesuser-821404Every day, at every hour...
- Yesuser-81297Several journals everyday send me emails for fast publication (even 24h) for hundreds of dollars/euros. Some of them are even indexed in Scopus or WoS.
- Yesuser-335059I receive dozens of unsolicited emails from journals from an enormous range of disciplines, few of which are ever related to my own research. The un-curated stream of solicitations mirrors exactly the approach to email-based scams.
- Yesuser-543438I get emails requesting I submit an article to a journal daily. The emails typically contain spelling and grammar errors or they refer to my research incorrectly.
- Nouser-211258It’s possible that I was and did not know it.
- Yesuser-684526I am always getting invitations to submit past or future manuscripts for publication in these journals.
- Yesuser-77256I receive invitations almost regularly from this type of journals but I simply ignore
- Yesuser-780649I have so many request to submit papers even in areas far from my field (e.g., journal on Menopause)
- Yesuser-49719I receive on average two solicitations for papers daily. And solicitations for junk meetings as well. Most go straight to my spam mailbox.
- Yesuser-78773They were far away from my àrea of expertise.
- Yesuser-573537Every week since a few years ago, I receive at least six "invitations" to publish in one of those pseudo journals. Usually, the message is poorly written, "adorned" with many adjectives, as if I was indeed the world´s most eminent writer. Also, the e-mail addresses are not from a professional domain, end if a physical address is listed, when you google it, the supposed location of the "journal offices" is in a very unlikely place.
- Yesuser-987379All the time, there are predatory journals and conferences as well.
- Yesuser-894987I declined the invite and turned down the appeal to submit any of my manuscripts
- Yesuser-259085Many times. Usually goes into spam mail folder. But sometimes directly too.
- Yesuser-46958Después de mis últimas publicaciones, han empezado a enviarme correos electrónicos revistas depredadoras, afirmando tener un factor de impacto que no se correspondía al comprobarlo. Por esto y por haber leído sobre revistas depredadoras no he accedido a enviarles mis últimos trabajos.
- Yesuser-489768All the time, getting emails on a daily basis by a random journal claiming fast publication
- Yesuser-753537Often, I would guess on an almost daily basis
- Yesuser-891259Suggested to send my articles or to enter an Editorial Board
- Yesuser-327335I receive 1-5 solicitations per day for articles, editorials, editor positions from journals with made up names that range from the ridiculous to the almost credible. They will site some recent article I have published with the usual flowery greetings, etc.
- Yesuser-864496I receive emails from OA journals requesting submissions to their journals almost daily.
- Yesuser-975922I do receive many emails from such journals and even conferences to submit my research work.
- Yesuser-731405Predator journals contact me several times a day.
- Yesuser-591358Nothing more to explain - yes - many times on a daily basis.
- Yesuser-547662From time to time, I receive requests from predatory journals to referee or submit publications.
- Yesuser-771635I have been offered to publish or even to be a part of the editorial board
- Yesuser-360571I receive mails all the time asking me to publish my research in predatory journals
- Yesuser-844522I constantly getting solicited by predatory journals, like Infotech publisher ones or Interactive Journal of Medical Research and etc.
- Yesuser-594347many times
- Yesuser-676638Many emails from previously unheard publishers and those (journals) not indexed in PubMed/Scopus/WoS keep coming in my inbox almost every month, asking for one article with full APC waiver or offering heavy discount on APC. They claim 'submission to publication' within a week!
- Yesuser-284769I receive tons of invitations from predatory journals/publishers. Luckily, most of them end up in my Spam box.
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