RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

[Stuart McKelvie]

Dear Miguel (and Tipsters),

Here is what I did. 

In the first case, I had not realized that the journal was predatory and I paid 
the $200.

Each of the other predatory journals to which I submitted had invited me. I 
checked their websites for fees. In some cases they were listed, in some cases 
not. In the latter cases, I wrote to find out what the fees were.

Then, before submitting, I wrote to point out that an invitation in everyday 
life usually implies that aperson does not pay. I added that I did not have a 
research grant (true) and did not have any institutional support (true). In a 
couple of cases, they offered to reduce the fee (in one case from around $500 
down to $100 (in a series of exchanges)). In these cases, after further appeals 
from me, and in the remaining one, they wrote to say that "higher authorities" 
had been consulted and that, in view of my "eminence" (or words to that 
effect), the would waive the fees!

So I have not shelled out a single dime for official fees. Actually, small 
correction - in one case, I approved the proofs  and the paper was published. 
Subsequently, I found some typographical errors that were my fault. When they 
had all been corrected I sent $20. I felt that I should take some 
responsibility for the extra work that they put in to correct the paper.

If Tipsters wish to read any of these gems in the predatory journals, you can 
access them on line by going to the journal websites.

Sincerely,

Stuart


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-Original Message-
From: Miguel Roig [mailto:ro...@stjohns.edu] 
Sent: January-31-18 4:29 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

Stuart, article charges can be pretty steep in some of these predatory 
journals,. How did you manage?

Miguel

From: Stuart McKelvie [smcke...@ubishops.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 3:18 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

Dear Tipsters,

Following Chris’s posting below, you might be interests in my activity on this 
matter. My little project is now closed. What follows is an extract from my CV:

Special Group of Eight Publications

***The following six papers were published in journals on Jeffrey Beall’s lists 
of “predatory” publishers and journals. In the first case (McKelvie, 2012b), I 
did not know that this journal was listed. However, the other papers were 
submitted, accepted and published in full knowledge that the journals were 
listed. They are part of a personal exploration into the practices of these 
journals.

***McKelvie, S. J. (2012b). Exploring a counterintuitive finding with 
methodological implications : Why is 9 > 221 in a between-subjects design? 
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2, 45-51 ***McKelvie, 
S. J. (2016a). What Determines Salt and Pepper Passage?A Brief Commentary on 
the Published Reports. Annals of Behavioural Science, 2, 2:20 ***McKelvie, S. 
J. (2017a). Giving 110%: The strange case of language and sport. Psychology and 
Behavioral Science International Journal, 3(2), 1-2. doi: 
10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.03.555610 ***McKelvie, S. J. (2016b). Factors in salt and 
pepper passage: A further critical report on the state of the art. Psychology 
and Psychological Research International Journal, 1,1.
***McKelvie, S. J. (2017c). Improbable Publishing: “Eye Color and Cheese 
Preference”? A case study of a memory error. Psychology and Behavioral Science 
International Journal, 5(2), 1. doi:10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.5.555656

***McKelvie, S. J. (2017d). Does clapping of hands have positive effects? A 
critique. Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal, 6(3).
 doi: 10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.05.555689

**The following two publications about predatory practices appeared in standard 
academic refereed journals.


**McCutcheon, L. E., Aruguete, M. S., McKelvie, S., Jenkins, W., Williams, J., 
McCarley, N., Rivardo, M., & Shaughnessy, M. F. (2016). How questionable are 
predatory social science journals? North American Journal of Psychology, 18 
(1), 427-440.

**McKelvie, S. J. (2017b). 

RE: [tips] interpretations of partial eta squared

[Wuensch, Karl Louis]

  Good commentary, Michael.  Frankly, I am not very fond of any 
proportion of variance effect size estimate, but the squared partial strikes as 
especially wicked, especially since most people who use them have no idea what 
they are.

Cheers,
[Karl L. Wuensch]
From: Michael Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2017 7:42 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Michael Palij
Subject: Fw: [tips] interpretations of partial eta squared



On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:05:27 -0800, , Karl Louis Wuensch wrote:
>  Unless you can justify removing from the denominator
>(total variance to be explained) that related to other effects
>in the model, you should never, ever, report partial eta-squared
>or partial r-squared.  If you must report a proportion of variance
>statistic, report semi-partial eta-squared / r- squared, known
>simply as eta-squared in the context of ANOVA.

Using Karls own materials on correlation, let me clarify some of
the points that Karl makes above as well as pose a question:

Assume we have 3 variables, AR=attitude toward animal rights,
MIS=misanthrophy (a dislike of humankind), and IDEAL=Idealism,
If we make AR our Y or criterion variable, and Mis = X1 and
Ideal = X2, out predictor vriables, one can represent the relationship
among the three variables in terms of a Venn diagram as follows:


The criterion Y variable AR is subdivided into several components labelled with
lower case letters:
d = unexplained or error variane
a = common variance or covariance of AR and MIS
c = common variance or covariance of AR and Ideal
b = common variance shared by AR, MIS, and IDEAL

The semi-partial correlation coefficient sr identifies the correlation between
a single variable and TOTAL variance of AR.  In terms of an equation,
sr(AR,MIS) = a/(a + b + c + d)
sr(AR,MIS) = proportion of TOTAL variance explained by the common
variance between AR and MIS.
all of the semi-partial correlations have (a + b + c + d) in the denominator
of equation used to calculate sr (given above).  The semi-partial correlation
is sometime referred to as a "part correlation".  The semi-partial eta-squared
follows a similar logic and the summ of the semi-partial eta-squard values plus
the remainer error variance should sum to 1.00 because each sr has the same
denominator.

Partial correlations differ from semi-partial correlations in a couple of ways
but the most important is what they express:

semi-partial correlations (technically, its squared values) identifty the common
variance between a predictor and the TOTAL variance of the criterion (in this
case (AR) while the (full) partial correlations (again, technically its squared 
values)
identify the common variance between a predictor and the UNEXPLAINED
variance.  The equation for (full) partial correlation for a above is
pr(AR,MIS) = a / (a + d)
The variance components for b and c (commoned or shared variance between
these two variables and the criterion) is removed from the total variance.

The question that the (full) partial correlation answers is "What proportion of
the remaining unexplained variance is accounted for by the relationship between
the criterion and this specific predictor after the systematic variance in 
criterion
that is associated with other predictor is removed from the criterion's 
variance.
The (full) partial correlations squared do NOT add up to 1.00 because they
have different denominators (i.e.,[specific effect variance + error variance] 
and
the specific effect variance is either a or b or c).

Partial eta squared, following the above logic, describes how much common 
variance
is accounted for by the independent  variance of dependent variable's variance 
that
has not been accounted for by the other independent variables.

Whether one should use the semi-partial eta-squared or (full) partial 
eta-squared,
I think, depends upon what what question one is asking or which of two reference
values one can use, namely,
(1)  The toatl variance in the criterion or dependent variable
(2) The remaining unexplained variance in the crierion or dependent variable.

My question to Karl is the following:
What did (full) partial correlation ever do to you to make you hold such
a potent grudge against ever using them?
;-)

>While SPSS does not provide this, it is easily computed as
>the effect sum of squares divided by the total (corrected)
>sum of squares.


Tests of Between-Subjects Effects





Dependent Variable:   Rating





Source


Type III Sum of Squares


df


Mean Square


F


Sig.


Partial Eta Squared


Corrected Model


1318.281a


7


188.326


163.344


.000


.893


Intercept


3314.885


1


3314.885


2875.150


.000


.955


DE_Attr


1275.998


1


1275.998


1106.731


.000


.890


Gender


4.068


1


4.068


3.529


.062


.025


Gender * DE_Attr


15.894


1


15.894


13.785


.000


.091


PL_Attr


.837


1


.837


.726


.396


.005


DE_Attr * 

RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

[Miguel Roig]

Stuart, article charges can be pretty steep in some of these predatory 
journals,. How did you manage?

Miguel 

From: Stuart McKelvie [smcke...@ubishops.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 3:18 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

Dear Tipsters,

Following Chris’s posting below, you might be interests in my activity on this 
matter. My little project is now closed. What follows is an extract from my CV:

Special Group of Eight Publications

***The following six papers were published in journals on Jeffrey Beall’s lists 
of “predatory” publishers and journals. In the first case (McKelvie, 2012b), I 
did not know that this journal was listed. However, the other papers were 
submitted, accepted and published in full knowledge that the journals were 
listed. They are part of a personal exploration into the practices of these 
journals.

***McKelvie, S. J. (2012b). Exploring a counterintuitive finding with 
methodological implications : Why is 9 > 221 in a between-subjects design? 
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2, 45-51
***McKelvie, S. J. (2016a). What Determines Salt and Pepper Passage?A Brief 
Commentary on the Published Reports. Annals of Behavioural Science, 2, 2:20
***McKelvie, S. J. (2017a). Giving 110%: The strange case of language and 
sport. Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal, 3(2), 1-2. doi: 
10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.03.555610
***McKelvie, S. J. (2016b). Factors in salt and pepper passage: A further 
critical report on the state of the art. Psychology and Psychological Research 
International Journal, 1,1.
***McKelvie, S. J. (2017c). Improbable Publishing: “Eye Color and Cheese 
Preference”? A case study of a memory error. Psychology and Behavioral Science 
International Journal, 5(2), 1. doi:10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.5.555656

***McKelvie, S. J. (2017d). Does clapping of hands have positive effects? A 
critique. Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal, 6(3).
 doi: 10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.05.555689

**The following two publications about predatory practices appeared in standard 
academic refereed journals.


**McCutcheon, L. E., Aruguete, M. S., McKelvie, S., Jenkins, W., Williams, J., 
McCarley, N., Rivardo, M., & Shaughnessy, M. F. (2016). How questionable are 
predatory social science journals? North American Journal of Psychology, 18 
(1), 427-440.

**McKelvie, S. J. (2017b). “A Case for Treatment”: What do research reports on 
salt and pepper passage reveal about research and publication practices? 
Current Psychology. Published on line June 1. doi: 10.1007/s12144-017-9620-x

Sincerely,

Stuart


___
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   [cid:image001.jpg@01D11876.FED84950]
"Recti cultus pectora roborant"

Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402
Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661
Bishop's University,
2600 rue College,
Sherbrooke,
Québec J1M 1Z7,
Canada.

E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or 
smcke...@ubishops.ca)

Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page:
http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy

 Floreat Labore"

 [cid:image002.jpg@01D11876.FED84950]

[cid:image003.jpg@01D11876.FED84950]
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From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: January-31-18 3:12 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish



I’m surprised that the New York Time took so long to catch on to this. It has 
been going on for over a decades now. There is a famous case of a group of 
computer science grad students at MIT who, back in 2005, wrote a program called 
SciGen to generate fake computer science papers. They submitted one to an 
sprawling conference in Orlando, which promptly accepted it and, then, after 
the story started being picked up in the media, un-accepted it. The students 
travelled to Orlando anyway, rented a room in the same conference center as the 
real conference, and held an unofficial fake symposium, disguised in fake 
moustaches.

Then there is the case, also in 2005, of the American computer scientists who 
were so vexed at a particular conference spamming them repeatedly that they 
responded with a mock up of an article titled “Take Me Off Your F—ing Mailing 
List” and consisting of nothing but that sentence repeated over and over again. 
Nine years later, 2014, an Australian engineer who was being spammed by a fake 
journal responded with a copy of that very “article,” but much to his surprise, 
just hours later, received a message saying that his 

RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

[Stuart McKelvie]

Dear Tipsters,

Following Chris’s posting below, you might be interests in my activity on this 
matter. My little project is now closed. What follows is an extract from my CV:

Special Group of Eight Publications

***The following six papers were published in journals on Jeffrey Beall’s lists 
of “predatory” publishers and journals. In the first case (McKelvie, 2012b), I 
did not know that this journal was listed. However, the other papers were 
submitted, accepted and published in full knowledge that the journals were 
listed. They are part of a personal exploration into the practices of these 
journals.

***McKelvie, S. J. (2012b). Exploring a counterintuitive finding with 
methodological implications : Why is 9 > 221 in a between-subjects design? 
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2, 45-51
***McKelvie, S. J. (2016a). What Determines Salt and Pepper Passage?A Brief 
Commentary on the Published Reports. Annals of Behavioural Science, 2, 2:20
***McKelvie, S. J. (2017a). Giving 110%: The strange case of language and 
sport. Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal, 3(2), 1-2. doi: 
10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.03.555610
***McKelvie, S. J. (2016b). Factors in salt and pepper passage: A further 
critical report on the state of the art. Psychology and Psychological Research 
International Journal, 1,1.
***McKelvie, S. J. (2017c). Improbable Publishing: “Eye Color and Cheese 
Preference”? A case study of a memory error. Psychology and Behavioral Science 
International Journal, 5(2), 1. doi:10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.5.555656

***McKelvie, S. J. (2017d). Does clapping of hands have positive effects? A 
critique. Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal, 6(3).
 doi: 10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.05.555689

**The following two publications about predatory practices appeared in standard 
academic refereed journals.


**McCutcheon, L. E., Aruguete, M. S., McKelvie, S., Jenkins, W., Williams, J., 
McCarley, N., Rivardo, M., & Shaughnessy, M. F. (2016). How questionable are 
predatory social science journals? North American Journal of Psychology, 18 
(1), 427-440.

**McKelvie, S. J. (2017b). “A Case for Treatment”: What do research reports on 
salt and pepper passage reveal about research and publication practices? 
Current Psychology. Published on line June 1. doi: 10.1007/s12144-017-9620-x

Sincerely,

Stuart


___
   "Floreat Labore"

   [cid:image001.jpg@01D11876.FED84950]
"Recti cultus pectora roborant"

Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402
Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661
Bishop's University,
2600 rue College,
Sherbrooke,
Québec J1M 1Z7,
Canada.

E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or 
smcke...@ubishops.ca)

Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page:
http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy

 Floreat Labore"

 [cid:image002.jpg@01D11876.FED84950]

[cid:image003.jpg@01D11876.FED84950]
___




From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: January-31-18 3:12 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish



I’m surprised that the New York Time took so long to catch on to this. It has 
been going on for over a decades now. There is a famous case of a group of 
computer science grad students at MIT who, back in 2005, wrote a program called 
SciGen to generate fake computer science papers. They submitted one to an 
sprawling conference in Orlando, which promptly accepted it and, then, after 
the story started being picked up in the media, un-accepted it. The students 
travelled to Orlando anyway, rented a room in the same conference center as the 
real conference, and held an unofficial fake symposium, disguised in fake 
moustaches.

Then there is the case, also in 2005, of the American computer scientists who 
were so vexed at a particular conference spamming them repeatedly that they 
responded with a mock up of an article titled “Take Me Off Your F—ing Mailing 
List” and consisting of nothing but that sentence repeated over and over again. 
Nine years later, 2014, an Australian engineer who was being spammed by a fake 
journal responded with a copy of that very “article,” but much to his surprise, 
just hours later, received a message saying that his submission had been 
accepted… for a fee, of course.

It just so happens that I have been writing about this phenomenon of late. It 
is much more pervasive (and worse) than most scientists (and journalists) 
generally understand. Here are a few sentences from a paper about it that I’ll 
be giving in the Netherlands next 

Re: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

[Christopher Green]

I’m surprised that the New York Time took so long to catch on to this. It has 
been going on for over a decades now. There is a famous case of a group of 
computer science grad students at MIT who, back in 2005, wrote a program called 
SciGen to generate fake computer science papers. They submitted one to an 
sprawling conference in Orlando, which promptly accepted it and, then, after 
the story started being picked up in the media, un-accepted it. The students 
travelled to Orlando anyway, rented a room in the same conference center as the 
real conference, and held an unofficial fake symposium, disguised in fake 
moustaches. 

Then there is the case, also in 2005, of the American computer scientists who 
were so vexed at a particular conference spamming them repeatedly that they 
responded with a mock up of an article titled “Take Me Off Your F—ing Mailing 
List” and consisting of nothing but that sentence repeated over and over again. 
Nine years later, 2014, an Australian engineer who was being spammed by a fake 
journal responded with a copy of that very “article,” but much to his surprise, 
just hours later, received a message saying that his submission had been 
accepted… for a fee, of course. 

It just so happens that I have been writing about this phenomenon of late. It 
is much more pervasive (and worse) than most scientists (and journalists) 
generally understand. Here are a few sentences from a paper about it that I’ll 
be giving in the Netherlands next month:

As late as 2011, Beall reported only 18 [fake] publishers. By the time his list 
was shut down by mounting legal threats in January 2017 there were 1310 
(Basken, 2017). Now we are up over 1400 (Anonymous, n.d.), who operate 
something like 8000 fake academic journals, which publish around 400,000 fake 
articles per year (Moher et al., 2017). Considering that there are something 
like 32,000 legitimate journals publishing something like 2 million legitimate 
articles every year (Ware & Mabe, 2009),[1]  the proportion of fake publishing 
now amounts to approximately 20% of journals and 15% of articles across all of 
academia. 
---
[1] These figures were derived by taking Ware and Mabe’s (2009) figures of 
25,400 “active scholarly peer-reviewed journals… collectively publishing 1.5 
million articles per year” (p. 5), and ” and applying their annual growth rates 
of 3% and 3.5% respectively over 9 years.

References
Anonymous. (n.d.). Beall’s List of Predatory Journals and Publishers. Retrieved 
December 19, 2017, from http://beallslist.weebly.com/

Basken, P. (2017, September 12). Why Beall’s List Died — and what it left 
unresolved about open access. Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from 
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Beall-s-List-Died-/241171

Moher, D., Shamseer, L., Cobey, K. D., Lalu, M. M., Galipeau, J., Avey, M. T., 
… Ziai, H. (2017). Stop this waste of people, animals and money. Nature News, 
549(7670), 23. https://doi.org/10.1038/549023a

Ware, M., & Mabe, M. (2009). The STM report An overview of scientific and 
scholarly journal publishing. Oxford, UK: STM: International Association of 
Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. Retrieved from 
http://www.stm-assoc.org/2009_10_13_MWC_STM_Report.pdf


Of course, sheer number of publications isn’t really what counts in academia 
these days; it’s the number of citations, especially recent citations. Some 
authors have been caught in “citation cartels” (promising to cite each other’s 
work as much as possible, even where not really relevant). One Dean of 
Engineering in Malaysia was recently found to have ordered his faculty to cite 
at least three other faculty in the same department every year (to jack up the 
department’s citation rate and, by extension, the government's funding of the 
university, which was guided by citation rates). My favorite scam, though, is 
the one in which authors submit gobbledegook articles to fake journals and 
conferences (with published proceedings) under a pseudonym. Why? How could a 
pseudonymous article help? The nonsense article would cite the author’s 
legitimate work profusely, thereby cranking up his or her citation rate (and 
appearing to be from independent sources rather than self-citation). 

Nice work if you can get it. 

Best,
Chris
…..
Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
43.773895°, -79.503670°

chri...@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/christo
orcid.org/-0002-6027-6709
...

On Jan 31, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Michael Palij  wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> NY Times on the conferences that accept word salad abstracts
> for presentations (comparable to the predatory journals).
> See:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?em_pos=medium=edit_up_20180131=upshot_art=7=389166=img=1
> 
> Some folks actually think these are okay.
> 
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> m...@nyu.edu
> 
> ---
> 
> You are 

RE: [tips] Mommas Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up To Be Scientific Researchers....

[Miguel Roig]

One of the most interesting discussions that I have heard about the Ph.D. 
surplus in the biomedical sciences was a talk by Brian Martinson at the 4th 
World Conference on Research Integrity, 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7CdeOcu1ng (go to minute 39.35 or for the more 
relevant segment go to minute 48) in which he describes how a leading expert on 
the worm C Elegans (spell?) ended up mentoring several Ph.D.s who themselves 
mentored some more Ph.D.s all of this resulting in an army of experts on this 
worm, many competing for the few available academic positions. A sad situation.

Miguel

From: Michael Palij [m...@nyu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:04 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Michael Palij
Subject: [tips] Mommas Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up To Be Scientific 
Researchers

unless they like being poor and having uncertain futures.  A NY Times
article paints the current dismal picture in some of the "hard" sciences.
I assume the situation is similar in psychology and social sciences.
NOTE:  neuroscience does not seem to be immune.  See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/upshot/so-many-research-scientists-so-few-openings-as-professors.html?action=click=The%20Upshot=RelatedCoverage=Marginalia=article

-Mike Palij
New York University
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[Michael Palij]

unless they like being poor and having uncertain futures.  A NY Times
article paints the current dismal picture in some of the "hard" sciences.
I assume the situation is similar in psychology and social sciences.
NOTE:  neuroscience does not seem to be immune.  See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/upshot/so-many-research-scientists-so-few-openings-as-professors.html?action=click=The%20Upshot=RelatedCoverage=Marginalia=article

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Re: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

[Claudia Stanny]

Hah! The UWF gmail system sends most of these messages directly to the spam
box, but a few slip through from time to time.
I think the frequency of these solicitations is now about 10 times (or
more) that of the solicitations from Nigerian princes with big bank
balances to give away.  :-)

I saw one that managed to misspell "science" in its logo.


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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Miguel Roig  wrote:

> Hey TIPS is alive!!! Thanks for posting, Mike.
>
> Yes, hardly a day goes by nowadays when I don't get one or more emails
> urging me to submit to this journal or to that conference. Some of their
> salutations are kind of funny: "Dear valuable researcher ..."
>
> But, this stuff is really getting out of hand as I have read of some
> instances in which some of the more subtle forms of solicitations have
> ensnared bonafide researchers.  What follows is what I have received just
> from the past 3-4 days!!
>
> Miguel
>
>

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RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

[Miguel Roig]

Hey TIPS is alive!!! Thanks for posting, Mike.

Yes, hardly a day goes by nowadays when I don't get one or more emails urging 
me to submit to this journal or to that conference. Some of their salutations 
are kind of funny: "Dear valuable researcher ..."

But, this stuff is really getting out of hand as I have read of some instances 
in which some of the more subtle forms of solicitations have ensnared bonafide 
researchers.  What follows is what I have received just from the past 3-4 days!!

Miguel

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ASFE 2018 Keynote Speech Invitation
ASFE2018 [asfe2...@cingley.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:29 AM
To: 
Miguel Roig
The 6th International Agricultural Science and Food Engineering Conference
(ASFE 2018)
August 21-23, 2018 in Kunming, China
Based on your expertise and notable achievements in the field of Agricultural 
Science and Food Engineering, we cordially invite you to deliver an invited 
speech on this conference. 

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OCM Invitation-HIV-AIDS-2018:Toronto, Canada
HIV-AIDS-2018 [hiv-aids-2...@scientificfederation.net]
This message was sent with High importance.
Sent:   Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:18 AM
To: 
Miguel Roig
Dear Dr. Miguel Roig,

Good Day!

We warmly welcome you to invite as an Organizing committee member for the 2nd 
International Conference & Expo on HIV & AIDS which will be held on September 
17-18,2018 at Toronto, Canada

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Reminder from Editorial Office
den...@gavinpublisher.com [den...@gavinpublisher.com]
This message was sent with High importance.
Sent:   Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:46 AM
To: 
Miguel Roig
Dentistry: Advanced Research : ISSN 2574-7347

Dear Miguel Roig,

Hope you are well!

This is a follow up mail from the editorial office of Dentistry: Advanced 
Research. We are releasing first Issue of this year. We would be glad to know 
your opinion to submit your manuscript for the Upcoming Issue of the journal, 
so that we can plan accordingly to include it in the same

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Call for Paper | Epidemiology
epidemiology@openaccesspublishers.online 
[epidemiology@openaccesspublishers.online]
Sent:   Monday, January 29, 2018 12:36 AM
To: 
Miguel Roig
Dear Dr. MiguelRoig, 

Greetings!! 

We are glad to get your notice that Archives of Epidemiology is a newly 
launched open access journal, which follows double blind peer review process 
within 21 days from the date of submission.

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ICNC-FSKD 2018 Submissions due 15 March: Submitting to IEEE Xplore/Scopus/EI 
Compendex/ISI 2018/1/28 21:48:58 7f7
Prof Sun [icnc-fskd2...@aust.edu.cn]
Sent:   Sunday, January 28, 2018 8:48 AM
To: 
Miguel Roig
Dear Colleague, 

We cordially invite you to submit a paper to the upcoming 2018 14th 
International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge 
Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2018), to be held from 28-30 July 2018 in Huangshan, China.

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From: Michael Palij [m...@nyu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 11:28 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Michael Palij
Subject: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

NY Times on the conferences that accept word salad abstracts
for presentations (comparable to the predatory journals).
See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?em_pos=medium=edit_up_20180131=upshot_art=7=389166=img=1

Some folks actually think these are okay.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu


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[tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

[Michael Palij]

NY Times on the conferences that accept word salad abstracts
for presentations (comparable to the predatory journals).
See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?em_pos=medium=edit_up_20180131=upshot_art=7=389166=img=1

Some folks actually think these are okay.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

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