Showing posts with label science spam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science spam. Show all posts
Friday, March 23, 2018

Science spammers constantly reaching for new lows

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I received the following two messages on the same day, in fact they were sitting right next to each other in the inbox. Surely this ...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

MCDA spam

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Ye gods, I got an absolute gem of science spam yesterday. We wish you a happy new year. Well, at least no greetings of the day, so that i...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The world is so confusing sometimes

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When will we finally reach peak gibberish in science spam? Dear Author, Formatting as in original - an auspicious start. Journal of Pro...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Cogent Spam and, while we are at it, ARTOAJ spam

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In the last two weeks several of the blogs I read have discussed an attempted 'hoax' publication that aimed to repeat for gender stu...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

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There is so much science spam these days that a message has to be particularly remarkable to even register; mostly I just mark as junk or re...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

More adventures in science spammer land

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Thus writeth the Open Journal of Plant Science, whose mass eMail is totally not spam, oh no sir: Please Note: This is not a spam message a...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Zcience Zpam

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Once more I have received a piece of science spam that I find outstanding in its silliness. Special Greetings! Are there people somewhere...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Science spam the umpteenth

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Just when I thought spam mails from for-profit "journals" had gotten a bit more professional looking lately, I get this: If t...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Yet more funny science spam

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Most of them are caught by the spam filters now, and most of the ones that make it through are unremarkable in their mediocrity, but the fol...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

A new low in science spam

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Science spammers sometimes use scripts to mine journals or article databases for authors' contact details and then generate automatic sp...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Another brilliant piece of science spam

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Lately I get the feeling that, on average, scientific spam trolling for paper submissions to poor quality, for-profit journals gets somewhat...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

That is very forward of them...

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As mentioned previously I get a lot of science spam soliciting the submission of manuscripts to some fifth rate for-profit journals, as p...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Another good one

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Because I show a "level of intricacy in my work" which makes the journal "even more proud", they believe that my work...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Scottish journal of EVERYTHING

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One of the things often pointed out by Jeffrey Beall is that questionable publishers like to give their for-profit journals very wide scope...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Some fresh science spam

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Admittedly I currently seem to get overwhelmingly sexually oriented spam, but there is also still a steady trickle of science spam. Some of ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Sience spam number the infinity

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There is so much science spam these days that I comment only on the most atrocious eMails I get. Today is one of those occasions. My inbo...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Failures and virtues of peer review

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For a few days now, scientists have been discussing a small experiment conducted by a Science correspondent. He invented several variations...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Where to submit a manuscript

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In the past few weeks I have repeatedly poked fun at science spam advertising poor quality for-profit "journals", and I have cite...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

More funny science spam

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Ye gods, I wonder when we will pass peak ridiculous. An editorial "manger" advises me to "always publish work in journal...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

This science spam is getting ridiculous

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There was a time when all the spam e-mails I received were the normal, mundane kind, advertising sildenafil citrate, websites supposedly sho...
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