petersuber on Nostr: I just got two pieces of spam in one week from _Medical Sciences_, an #MDPI journal. ...
I just got two pieces of spam in one week from _Medical Sciences_, an #MDPI journal. The first invited me to submit an article and offered me a discount on its #APC. The second nagged me for not responding the first.
I'm not a medical researcher. My fields are philosophy, law, and open access. This is easy to discover in a simple web search.
If this medical journal knows my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me? If it doesn't know my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me?
Does it realize that its emails prove that it's spamming researchers at random without knowing the first thing about them?
I'm sure you get this kind of spam too. When you find time, I urge you to post about it and name names.
I don't do this often enough. Here are two earlier examples.
--July 2017
https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143629/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/CcyhJ7NudEh
--June 2018
https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143627/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/6DfDZABMNSv
I'm not a medical researcher. My fields are philosophy, law, and open access. This is easy to discover in a simple web search.
If this medical journal knows my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me? If it doesn't know my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me?
Does it realize that its emails prove that it's spamming researchers at random without knowing the first thing about them?
I'm sure you get this kind of spam too. When you find time, I urge you to post about it and name names.
I don't do this often enough. Here are two earlier examples.
--July 2017
https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143629/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/CcyhJ7NudEh
--June 2018
https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143627/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/6DfDZABMNSv