Saturday, November 7, 2020

Mathews Journal of Forensic Research Charges for Wastage of Precious Resources

Mathews Open Access Journals About Us page includes such putative sentences as "So that we can rejoice the miraculous outcomes of the researches done by our passionate researchers, professors, young and energetic scholars." The real miracle may be to get authors to pay "[t]he processing charges for a single manuscript [of] 1539 USD" and the "withdrawal charges" for "wastage of precious resources including editors, reviewers, and the editorial staff."

The first spam arrived in March 2018, for the Mathews Journal of Forensic Research. The journal website falsely claims to publish bimonthly and to release one volume per year. In November 2020, Mathews still advertises papers from issue 1 in 2018 as its only "recent articles." It has a picture of an issue for "volume 2" (dated 2019), but if it has any content, I cannot find it.

The editorial board does not include an editor-in-chief. The only US member is said to be Evan T. Keller, a professor of urology and pathology at the University of Michigan medical school, who works on prostate cancer bone metastasis and other topics apparently unrelated to forensic science research.

Related: Mathews Wants To "Share Your Any Research Work," Flaky Academic Journals, Mar. 22, 2018

Email
  • From: Mathews Journal of Forensic Research
    Date: Mon 3/5/2018 9:37 AM
    Subject: Article Invitation
    Dear Dr. David H Kaye,
    Warm Greetings from Mathews Journal of Forensic Research! It is our pleasure to introduce ourselves as an open access publishers with a motto to serve the scientific community. We publish peer-reviewed articles related to different aspects.
    We are planning to release Inaugural Issue by first week of April 2018, under the esteem guidance of our Editorial board members. We welcome you to submit your manuscripts and extend our invitation to your colleagues and subject experts in the field of your research. Kindly submit your articles on or before 16th March 2018 to forensicresearch@mathewsopenaccess.net NOTE: If it is not feasible to you at this time, please allow us to grasp your feasible time to contribute.
    EB Invitation: It would be our pleasure to have you on the Editorial board of the journal. Kindly send us your biography, research interest and photograph to the above mentioned email-id.
    We will be waiting for a positive response from you. Please be at liberty to approach us regarding any queries and concerns.
    Warm Regards,
    Alice Jessy
    Editorial Coordinator
    You are receiving this email because of your relationship [← spammer-spammee] with the sender. ...
  • From: Mathews Journal of Forensic Research
    Date: Thu 3/22/2018 4:38 AM
    Subject: Share Your Any Research Work
    Dear Dr. David H Kaye,
    Warm Greetings from Mathews Journal of Forensic Research! It is our pleasure to introduce ourselves as an open access publishers with a motto to serve the scientific community. We publish peer-reviewed articles related to different aspects. We are planning to release Inaugural Issue by 16th April 2018, under the esteem guidance of our Editorial board members. We welcome you to submit your manuscripts and extend our invitation to your colleagues and subject experts in the field of your research.
    Kindly submit your articles on or before 30th March 2018 to forensicresearch@mathewsopenaccess.net NOTE: If it is not feasible to you at this time, please allow us to grasp your feasible time to contribute.
    EB Invitation: It would be our pleasure to have you on the Editorial board of the journal. Kindly send us your biography, research interest and photograph to the above mentioned email-id. We will be waiting for a positive response from you. Please be at liberty to approach us regarding any queries and concerns.
    Warm Regards,
    Alice Jessy
    Editorial Coordinator
    Mathews Journal of Forensic Research
  • From: Mathews Journal of Forensic Research [forensicresearch@mathewsopenaccess.net]
    Date: Wed 10/10/2018 6:00 AM
    Subject: Submit One Article for Upcoming Issue
    Dear Dr. David H Kaye,
    Warm Greetings from Mathews Journal of Forensic Research! It is our honour to invite eminent scientists like you to publish your quality research work in the form of manuscripts to support global scientific community.
    We are planning to release Inaugural Issue by 26th October 2018, under the esteem guidance of our Editorial board members. Considering you as Potential Author we are pleased to invite you to submit a Research, Review, Commentary, Opinion articles, Short commentaries, Case report towards the journal.
    Mathews Open Access is been indexed in J-Gate, Genamics, Google Scholar other sites too.
    Kindly submit your articles on or before 19th October 2018 to forensicresearch@mathewsopenaccess.net NOTE: If it is not feasible to you at this time, please allow us to grasp your feasible time to contribute.
    Warm Regards
    Alice Jessy
    Editorial Coordinator
    You are receiving this email because of your relationship [← spammer-spammee] with the sender. ...

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