Scimaze Joins the Rat Race

Scimaze Palliative and Nursing Care has invited me to submit articles and to apply to be an editorial board member. Although I have no background or qualifications in the field, I suppose my contributions would be valuable relative to what else is there. The journal's website is largely an empty shell. It has tabs for articles in press, a current issue, an archive, and an editor-in-chief, but there are no entries. The editorial board consists of assistant professors in Tokyo and Iran. That is better than most of the other Scimaze journals, which have no editors and no content at all.

Nevertheless, for $519, they will be happy to "process" articles. One hopes that the processing results in better composed work than what the publisher has on its About Us page. There, we learn that

★ Scimaze Group ... works towards taking research innovatively to a certain limelight
★ Our international journals has made place among the top scientific journals [← That is quite an accomplishment considering that the 16 journals have published only five articles.]
★ Our journal is protuberant for the seriousness of the research work
★ We work for a cause to take the research work to a level never seen before.
★ We work with the intention of providing a better future for the mankind.

One Scimaze journal does have an editor-in-chief. He is "Nelson Howard Hendler, Assistant professor, Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University." At this point, Dr. Hendler is the only one who has written anything for the journal he edits, Scimaze Anaethesia and Pain Managment. The photograph is that of a young man, but the biographical description states that Dr. Hendler graduated from Princeton University in 1966 and taught at Johns Hopkins for 31 years -- apparently from 1975-2006.. In 2006, Dr. Hendler had his medical license suspended because of allegations that he "traded drugs for sex with patients and handed out pain pills without proper prescriptions." Fred Schulte, Md. Board Suspends Doctor's License, Baltimore Sun, Feb. 9, 2006. The details are rather lurid. Dr. Hendler edits a journal for another shell publisher, Crimson Publications.

The domain name scimaze.com was registered a year ago by Domains by Proxy. The server is in India, and the contact information on the website supplies the incomplete address of Harijan Street, Gajularega, Vizianagaram-535002, India.

Email

• From: Scimaze Palliative and Nursing Care [nursingcare@scimaze.com]
  Date: April 27, 2019 7:24 AM
  Subject: Palliative and Nursing Care
  Dear Dr. David H Kaye,
  Greetings. Scimaze Palliative and Nursing Care is an open access journal which covers all case studies in the clincal and medical field. The journal solicits Case reports, Case Series, Image Articles, editorials and Letter to Editors etc.
  Due Date. Article submitted by the month of 25 May 2019 will be highly appreciated. If it is not feasible for you to submit paper in this month, then kindly let us know your feasible time for contribution for further issue submissions
  With kind regards,
  Joe Thomas
  Journal Coordinator
  Scimaze Palliative and Nursing Care
  Note: if you are interested to serve as an editorial board member and reviewer, kindly send your CV, Biography, Research interest and photograph.
  You are receiving this email because of your relationship with the sender [← Yes, I am the spamee.]