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Five emails from the same journal of the Al-Nahda Publishing House graced my inboxes today. They came from "Editor of JOAAABR" in Palestine -- no individual name or address. Facebook lists Al Nahda Publishing House as a local business in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A whois lookup shows the joaaabr.com domain's primary IP address is 160.153.129.26. Established in November 2017, it is registered only to GoDaddy.com. The email promises "very fast, highly rigorous" peer-review -- "it takes just three weeks." At the moment (2/11/18), however, the only article on the newly launched journal's website is "Evolving of Selected Integrated Reporting Capitals among Listed Bahraini Banks." There is a named editor and editorial board (mostly assistant professors). More spam (4/29/18) indicates that the publisher's name has changed to "Al-Sham Post Publishing (AAP)." Still no individuals and no website for the publisher. However, there are now f...

In addition to the obvious three -- omicsgroup.org, omicsonline.com, and omicsonline.org -- as of January 2018, the following domains are associated with OMICS ⊗ alliedacademies.org ⊗ conferenceseries.com ⊗ conferenceseries.net ⊗ euroscicon.com, euroscicononline.org ⊗ global-summit.com ⊗ imedpub.com ⊗ lifescienceevents.com     ⊗ openaccessjournals.com ⊗ pulsus.com ⊗ pharmaceuticalconferences.com ⊗ rroij.com ⊗ scholarsresearchlibrary.com ⊗ scitechnol.com ⊗ tsijournals.com OMICS also is using the following domains to send emails (8/2/18): ⊙ annualconferences.org ⊙ conferenceeurope.com ⊙ conferenceint.com     ⊙ conferencesglobal.org ⊙ meettheglobalexpert.com Finally, the following domains are registered (3/22/18) to OMICS' founder, Srinubabu Gedela or OMICS: ⊗ biotechnologycongress.com ⊗ conferencesamerica.org ⊗ metabolomicsconference.com ⊗ meetingsint.com ⊗ nutritionalconference.com     ⊗ oceanographyconference.com ⊗ omicsgroupconferences.com ⊗ scientificmeet...

Science Alert (sciencealert.com) and Science Alert (scialert.net and scialert.com) are not the same! This posting is about spam from the latter outfit, which was on Beall's list . The domain scialert.net is registered to Instra Corporation Pty, Ltd., whose unedifying contact information is Domain Manager,Cloud308, PO Box q126208, Dubai 126208, +971.562218164, inbox388@hotmail.com. The home page states (2/1/18) that " Our business is to manage the knowledge and disseminate the new discoveries globally. Science Alert publishes close to 150 academic and professional journals." But it is hard not to be suspicious of journals with names like "American Journal of Food Technology" (the first on the publisher's list) --especially when the address for Science Alert (on the contact form) is Office Number 112, Al Noor Building, Near Bassam Center, P.O. Box 126208, Deira, Dubai, UAE. There is no address for the "American Journal." The editor-in-chief is Dr. O...

It looks like the organizers of a questionable academic conference are inviting everyone to pay for the privilege of having a "separate Chapter" in a book to be "hosted at libraries of world-famous prominent universities such as the British Library." The US editor is Robert Elliott , Department Head, Music Theory, String Bass, Tennessee State University. Email From: Book Chapter [mailto:info@ecsac2018.com] Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2018 3:30 PM (also 1/8/2018) Subject: Book Chapter Dear Researcher, We hereby invite you to participate in the international “The Most Recent Studies in Science and Art” in which original research and compilations of national and international researchers will be published. With a multidisciplinary approach, and with the participation of many researchers from different disciplines (each study will be included in a separate Chapter), the book will be released in English, and include the most up-to-date research and developments in scien...

Invertis University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, 243123, India, is spamming for a couple of subscription-fee journals. Email From: IJRE Invertis [mailto:ijre2011@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 3:23 AM Subject: Happy New Year 2018 Dear All, All of us at “Invertis Journal of Renewable Energy and Invertis Journal of Science and Technology” would like to wish you, your colleagues and family. To End Something Old, Will Start Something New, Wishing You With Mighty Heart, Though The Words Are Very Few! Happy New Year 2018 Thanks and Regards Editors Invertis Journal of Renewable Energy, Invertis Journal of Science and Technology. Ph No- 011-42430358,9811193210. Email -ijre2011@gmail.com, zh_zaidi@rediffmail.com Sent with Mailtrack

Open Access Text (OAT) seems to another collection of manuscripts from India. Why do I say that?  ⊗ 113 journals at www.oatext.com/journals with titles ranging from "Mouth and Teeth" to "Translational Brain Rhythmicity". ⊗ A known spammer (see http://www.scientificspam.net/?p=139 ) that takes "immense pleasure contact an eminent person" like me to publish in a radiology journal, even though I am neither an MD, a radiologist, or anything else connected with the field. ⊗ A lot of blather on the website, such as "OA Text galvanizes a community of scientists that collaboratively advances and communicates science and its power to ensure a sustainable future." ⊗ Journals publish trivial articles. E.g., Zięba-Palus J (2017) Forensic examinations of micro-traces. Forensic Sci Criminol 2, doi: 10.15761/FSC.1000113. ⊗ Email omitted an address for the journal, but it came from an Indian server. ⊗ The domain oatext.com is registered to Ranjith Donthi, 114A B...

Frontiers Media (frontiersin.org) is an open access publisher in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded by serious neuroscientists. I looked around to learn what people were saying about it after receiving a request to review a manuscript for Frontiers in Genetics . The associate editor who wrote me as well most of the large board of "chief editors" seem to be serious and published researchers, but I do not know what to make of the journal's claim to have 5,689 editors. Zooming in on the field of "ELSI in Science and Genetics" yielded a list of 131 "associate editors." Frontiers notes the number of articles these editors have written; 27 had no publications of their own (or if they did, Frontiers neglected to mention them). Naturally, Frontiers claims that all of its 59 journals covering more than 460 specialties conduct transparent and rigorous peer review. It also states that "We publish all papers that are scientifically correct ." (Emphasis in we...