Flaky Academic Journals: 2021

Thursday, December 30, 2021

SCIRP's Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML)

Scientific Research Publishing Inc. (SCIRP) has a long established reputation as a predatory publisher. Although I am unschooled, unpublished, and uneducated in linguistics, its Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) keeps "approaching for your attention [i]n light of your contribution in the field." SCIRP obtained its ISSN in 2011, with a United States registration.

The "Honorary Editorial Board" shown on the website consists of "Prof. Wayne A. Davis, Georgetown University, USA, and Prof. Mineharu Nakayama, The Ohio State University, USA."

EMAIL

From: Open Journal of Modern Linguistics [ojml@ompila.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020, 4:06:35 PM EST
Subject: Welcome to Submit Articles to Special Issue on "Language and Translation"
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) ...
Special Issue on "Language and Translation" Submission Deadline:May 6th, 2021; Publication Date: July 2021
High-Efficient Publication Process
(Acceptance / Rejection notification will be offered within 7-10 Days)
Call for Papers
Calling papers from the upcoming special issue on "Language and Translation" for the peer-reviewed open-access journal, the Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML,2164-2834) . As one of the top experts in the field, you are cordially invited to submit your new papers to this special issue. Papers submitted to our journal will be peer-reviewed by leading researchers all over the world. As the online version is free to access and download, it enables you to share your achievements with a worldwide audience, and get the recognition and rewards that you deserve.
If you have unpublished papers in hand and have the idea of making our journal a vehicle for your research, please feel free to submit your manuscripts via this e-mail: Manuscript@openaccessj.com. (E-mail Subject Format: OJML_article title)
Detailed information about published articles, indexing, editorial board members can be checked at this journal website by searching OJML 2164-2834 online.
Aims & Scope (not limited to): *Cultural translation *Literature translation *Translation skills *Translation methods *English translation *Human and machine translation *Translation learning and development *Translation & interpreting
Other special issues: *Language, Discourse & Society *Applied Linguistics *Multilingual and Multicultural Development ...
Best Regards,
Ms. Tia Li(Editorial Assistant)
OJML Editorial Office
papersubmission.zt@gmail.com
Reply with “UB” to unsubscribe
From: Open Journal of Medical Imaging [ojmi@elpfuly.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 7:52 AM EST
Subject: Article Seeking - Language Translation and Interpretation (Special Issue)
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML)
Impact Factor: 1.27; h5-index: 12; Downloads> 1,276,933; Published Articles: 439; Citations: 2090; Downloads/article: 2908.7; Citations/article: 4.8
Special Edition: Language Translation and Interpretation
Submission Deadline: March 30th, 2022; Publication Date: May 2022
Call for Papers
The special issue "Language Translation and Interpretation", launched by Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (ISSN Online: 2164-2834), is approaching for your attention. In light of your contribution in the field, we would like to cordially invite you to submit related papers to this issue
If you have related new papers for publication, please feel free to submit via e-mail to: Manuscript@openaccessj.com (E-mail Subject: OJML_LTN).
Once it is published, we will also help promoting it in various social networking sites for increasing impacts, downloads and citations.
You could visit the journal website by searching OJML 2164 2834.
Themes include, but are not limited to : • Metaphrase • Paraphrase • Etymology • Bible translations • Bilingual dictionary • English translation • Literal translation • Machine translation • Medical translation • Consecutive interpreting • Simultaneous interpreting • Source language cultures • Interpretation services • Translation services • Language interpretation • Language translation
Fresh Article Sharing
Constructive Processes in Completing Reading-to-Write Tasks: Selecting, Organising and Connecting
Pucheng Wang, Zuogong Zhang
DOI: 10.4236/ojml.2021.116071 12 Downloads 48 Views
About Transformation Formulas of the Most Ancient Roots in Eurasian Languages
Kapar Zulpukarov, Semetei Amiraliev, Gulzat Aipova, Aida...
DOI: 10.4236/ojml.2021.116070 21 Downloads 100 Views
Best regards,
Prof. Wayne A. Davis (Georgetown University, USA)
OJML Editorial Office
E-mail: papersubmissionyun@gmail.com
Reply with “UB” to unsubscribe.

Friday, April 30, 2021

SCIREA Journal of Sociology

SCIREA is an opaque publisher that does not reveal its location and staff. Its website describes the SCIREA Journal of Sociology as "an international, scientific peer-reviewed open access journal published online by SCIREA" and promises publication within approximately 25 days of submission. It accomplishes this feat without a named editor-in-chief. The listings for the "editorial board" go on and on, surpassing 1,000 members apparently motivated to write instant reports by "vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC [author publishing charge of $330 as of April 30, 2021] of their next publication in any SCIREA journal, in appreciation of the work done."

The first four (of 21) U.S. members of the bloated editorial board are said to be such luminaries in the discipline of sociology as:

Dr. Farshad Salimi Naneh Karan, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College
Julia M. Puaschunder, Columbia University, Princeton University, The New School Department of Economics, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
David L. Bolton, Werst Chester University

The "Instructions for Authors" begin with the heading "Subscribe for Interminable Submissions." That sounds ominous. The instructions contain these "Open Science Policy Guide Lines to Submit the Manuscript: The absolute prototype for manuscript is originality, high scientific quality and interest to a multidisciplinary audience." I cannot say whether the journal's articles fit this absolute protoype. The website crashed when I tried accessing them.

Email

From: sj info [sj@sjchemistry.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2020 8:36 AM
Subject: Submitting Your Manuscripts (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
Journal of Sociology
Dear Kaye, DH
Warm greetings!
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[No signature line]
From: Chan Alan [chan@sjchemistry.net]
Date: Friday, March 6, 2020 10:22 AM
Subject: Contributing Your Research Article (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
Dear Kaye, DH
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From: Vestrucci Paolo [vestrucci@agriculturej.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 5:57 AM
Subject: Invitation to Submit Your Articles (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
Dear Kaye, DH
Good day! The paper with the title Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment published in LAW PROBABILITY & RISK has impressed us deeply. The abstract of your research which has impressed us most is listed below: ... [No signature line]
From: Cheng Jianwei [cheng@sjchemistry.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:43 AM
Subject: Invitation to Submit Your Articles (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
[Same "Good day!" email]
From: Cheng Jianwei [cheng@sjchemistry.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 7:56 PM
Subject: Invitation to Submit Your Papers (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
Dear Kaye, DH
Journal of Sociology
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[No signature line]
From: Aleksandar Jankovski [aleksandar@sjchemistry.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2020 10:36 AM
Subject: Invitation to Contribute Your Research Paper (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
Journal of Sociology
Dear Kaye, DH
Warmest greetings from the assitant [sic] editor! We are writing to show our deepest impression on your article with the title Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment which has been published in LAW PROBABILITY & RISK. Here attached the excerpt of your research which has impressed us most: ... [No signature line]
From: sj info [sj@sjournalofenvironment.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 10:55 AM
Subject: Submitting Your Articles (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
Dear Kaye, DH
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2. Abstract: ...
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From: Ali Aidy [ali@sjournalofenvironment.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 7:20 PM
Subject: Calling for Articles (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
Dear Kaye, DH
Good day!
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[No signature line]
From: Chaturvedi Devdutt [chaturvedi@healthj.org]
Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2021 9:47 AM
Subject: Calling for Research Papers (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
Dear Kaye, DH
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Here attached the details of your research which has impressed us most:
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[No signature line]
From: Radosevich James [radosevich@agriculturej.org]
Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 2:25 PM
Subject: Contributing Your Research Paper (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
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Your research has left us a deep impression, the abstract of which is listed as follows:
1. Title: ...
2. Abstract: ...
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[No signature line]
From: Giuseppe Ioppolo [giuseppe@sjofbio.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 2:31 PM
To: Kaye, David
Subject: ЅսЬmіtting Your Manuscript (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
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From: Sheela Agarwal [sheela@sjofp.org]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 6:06 PM
Subject: ЅսЬmіtting Your Ρареrs (Deadly statistics: quantifying an 'unacceptable risk' in capital punishment)
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The abstract of your research which has impressed us most is listed below: ...
[The email ends with a link that goes to a submission form for the SCIREA sociology journal. There is no signature line or contact information.]
From: Balaji K. [balaji@clinicalmedicinej.org]
Pashikanti Srinath [pashikanti@electricalengineeringj.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 11:16 PM
Sunday, May 23, 2021 7:22 PM
To: Kaye, David
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Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 5:11 AM
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NOTICE: As of 28 May 2021, I have stopped reproducing the incessant emails from SCIREA journals. Pennsylvania State University has blacklisted the webpage for submitting manuscripts, noting that "Access to the Website you were trying to use has been blocked because it could possibly be unsafe or potentially malicious."

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

The International Journals from the House in Mesa, Arizona

Today's possible scam came not as an email, but as an inane comment on a recent posting on this blog. The commenter, calling himself "Smith," wrote that "[a] journal is a compilation of papers written on a daily basis throughout the year (much like a magazine)" and gave a link to IJMRS.com.

IJMRS is the acronym for International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies and Research. This journal is one of a series covering every imaginable subject. All have the same editor-in-chief, Steven Sayasy. All have the same address, 1809 S Citrus Cove, Mesa, Arizona 85204. That's a recently purchased five-bedroom house in a Phoenix suburb. The Sayasy-edited and published journals that popped up in a quick search are IJMRS, IJSSHR (International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research), and the improbably named JOMAAR (Journal of Management and Architecture Research).

JOMAAR is amazing. In less than three years, it has become "the longest-standing, constantly-published, worldwide-referred publication on architecture, based in the USA." Indeed, "[i]ts unique thematic issues contribute to the confrontation of scholarly perspectives on unnoticed setbacks – a must-read for faculties, doctoral and graduate students, in addition to for architects and the universal intellectual audience."

The title of its latest article reads as if it were written by a random word generator. The article is "The Performance That Observation Potboiler in Weakness Manufacture An Redundancy Effigy for the Consideration of Weakness" by Professor Shadowy Lings and Dr. Luis Easton.

Who is the intrepid editor-in-chief for the universal intellectual audience? In a word, a salesman. Steven Sayasy of 1809 Citrus Cove is the registered agent, organizer, and principal of Rapid Purchases, LLC. The company engages in "Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Other Activities Related to Real Estate." According to Bizapedia, that is not all. Mr. Sayasy is the sole principal of Farkal LLC, which offers "Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Other Computer Related Services." On Linked In, he describes himself as "President at Farkal" and lists two other current activities -- "Licensed Realtor" with the Realty ONE Group and "Digital Marketing Nerd" with Exaalgia LLC. He puts his best foot forward:

My 10+ years of experience revolves around customer service, sales, and management. I have dedicated my efforts to learning these skills and mastering them to the best of my ability.

Comparable skills in academic research and writing are not mentioned. There are no reported publications or even a four-year college degree. Mr. Sayasa's education culminated in an associate's degree from Hamilton College in upstate New York.

Oh, by the way, the "Smith" IJMRS blog coaches students on how to submit plagiarized term papers without getting caught.

PUTATIVE COMMENT

Smith [https://www.blogger.com/profile/01818740726441100868] has left a new comment on your post "Frontiers in Medical Case Reports wants the "medic...": A journal is a compilation of papers written on a daily basis throughout the year (much like a magazine). Research Journal papers are written by experts, for experts, and they present the most current studies. They may be printed or distributed online, or both.

Monday, April 19, 2021

Frontiers in Medical Case Reports wants the "medical fraternity to synchronize their knowledge"

Frontiers in Medical Case Reports is not a Frontiers Media (frontiersin.org) journal. The publisher listed on the journal's website is

Publisher: Frontiers in Medical Case Reports
4-73, S. Lingotum, Choutuppal, Hyderabad, Andhrapradesh, India 508252
Weblink: https://www.jmedicalcasereports.org/
Contact Person: K. Shivashanker
Email: shivashankar.fmcr@gmail.com

This Frontiers journal seems to be intertwined with the Archives of Medical and Clinical Research. Both have domains (in this case, jmedicalcasereports.org) registered to "Organization: Ubitech Solutions; Kind: individual; Mailing Address: Madhya Pradesh, India." Both have the same guidelines for authors. Both have mostly the same editors.

The About Us and home pages indicate that this is not a journal to turn to for English language editing. It advises us that its purpose "is to enhance the field by offering new basic and clinical research with highlighting on knowledge that will motivation the way medical treatments are practiced." The About Us also page condemns "ethical malpractices" and has this to say about "Human and Animal Rights":

Contingent upon the idea of the in regards to investigate, manuscripts submitted ... should contain an statement such that the unsettling legitimately restricting ethical guidelines have been met. Authors are needed to check if any of the beneath explanations applies ....
All human investigations should express that they have been affirmed by the ethics committee and have accordingly been acted as per the ethical guidelines set down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. ...

The email, which does not comply with the US CAN-SPAM Act is written in a similar style.

Email

From: fmcr [fmcr@jmedicalreports.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 11:39 PM
Subject: Submissions for Medical Case Reports
Frontiers in Medical Case Reports
Authors are cordially Invited for article submissions to publish in the upcoming issue of Frontiers in Medical Case Reports Frontiers in Medical Case Reports is a lively and informative journal covering international issues relevant to medical and clinical sciences worldwide.
The Frontiers in Medical Case Reports is an international standard open access peer-reviewed journal which provides a source for publishing original communications, case reports and case series in all areas of medical and clinical sciences. Frontiers in Medical Case Reports providing a platform for advances in basic and advanced clinical medical research for all branches of Medico Professionals.
FMCR provides cutting edge updates, developments in the medical arena and helps the medical fraternity to synchronize their knowledge in today's time.
Submission Guidelines:
A High-Quality research papers are invited those are original and plagiarism free must be prepared in MS word should be submitted electronically. kindly submit through online at: Submit Now or you can mail your manuscript to our mail at editor@jmedicalcasereports.org
All submitted manuscript will be peer-reviewed, edited and published in accordance with international standard and best practices.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Editorial Office
Frontiers in Medical Case Reports
E-mail: editor@jmedicalcasereports.org

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

From Science Domain International: Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology

The Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology (previously the British Journal of Applied Science & Technology), is "is dedicated to publish." The website (https://www.journalcjast.com/index.php/CJAST/about) explains in a "disclaimer" that

As per the recommendation of different reputed indexing organizations and following the requests of researchers and editors, title of this journal has been changed. ‘British Journal of Applied Science & Technology’ continued as ‘Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology'. This international journal has no connection with any scholarly society or association or any specific geographic location or any country (like USA, UK, Germany, etc). This is an independent journal run by SCIENCEDOMAIN international. Legal contact address of editorial office and other offices are available in this link [https://www.journalcjast.com/index.php/CJAST/about/contact].

Apparently, the "British Journal" ran into trade name problems. As with other SDI journals, the contact page identifies the publisher as Ms. M. B. Mondal, Ph.D., and the London "branch office" is rented from an office-address provider.

More information on Science Domain International is posted on this blog.

Email

From: Dr. Isita Sen [editor05@sdjournals.net] Sent: June 14, 2017
Dear Colleague.
Thank you for kind cooperation and support. Your attention is solicited for the following announcement. ...
Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology (Past name: British Journal of Applied Science and Technology) ...
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Manuscript submitted within this month will be eligible for 0% discount on normal Article Processing Charge (APC) of 500 USD. (i.e. Effective APC will be 100 USD). ...
Best regards,
Ms. Isita Sen
UK: Third Floor, 207 Regent Street, London, W1B 3HH,UK,Registered in England and Wales, Company Registration Number: 8988029, Fax: +44 20-3031-1429
USA: One Commerce Centre, 1201, Orange St. # 600, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, USA, Corporate File Number: 5049777, Fax: +1 302-397-2050
India: U GF, DLF City Phase-III, Gurgaon, 122001, Delhi NCR, Corp. Firm Registration Number: 255 (2010-11), Fax: +91 11-66173993
From: Dr. Isita Sen [dhkaye@publishcourses.com]
Sent: Feb 26 at 2:46 AM
Subject: Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology
Dear Colleague,
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7. Article Processing Charge (or Publication Charge): Manuscript submitted within this month will be eligible for 80% discount on normal Article Processing Charge (APC) of 500 USD. (i.e. Effective APC will be 100 USD). ...
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Dr. Isita Sen
UK: Third Floor, 207 Regent Street, London, W1B 3HH, the UK, Registered in England and Wales, Company Registration Number: 8988029, Fax: 44 20-3031-1429
USA: One Commerce Centre, 1201, Orange St. # 600, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, USA, Corporate File Number: 5049777, Fax: 1 302-397-2050
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You have received this e-mail in the genuine belief that its contents would be of interest to you ...
From: Dr. Rita Sen [editor@4sdi.online]
Date: Mon 6/18/2018 6:21 AM
Subject: British Journal of Applied Science & Technology (4.1)
Dear Colleague,
Thank you for kind cooperation and support. Your attention is solicited for the following announcement. ...
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Submission to first editorial decision with review comments: 3 weeks
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Abstracting/indexing::
Many respected abstracting/indexing services covered our journals.
ISI Web of Science citations (Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2), US National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog [NLM ID: 101664541] ← The journal's status is "Not currently indexed for MEDLINE. ... Not in the NLM Collection " [4/16/2017], Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, ProQuest, EBSCOhost (USA), HINARI (United Nation's Database), AGORA (United Nation's FAO database), Google scholar (h5-index: 12 and h5-median: 16) (http://bit.ly/2sTx7Kq), Qualis (Brazilian index) (BJAST), CNKI (China), Ulrich's, CrossRef, Chemical Abstracts Service (USA)
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Journal Hard copy: Journal hard copies and article reprints are available at extremely nominal cost. ...
Best regards,
Dr Rita Sen
Reg. Office: UK: Third Floor, 207 Regent Street, London, W1B 3HH,UK, Registered in England and Wales, Company Registration Number: 8988029, Fax: +44 20-3031-1429
India: U GF, DLF City Phase-III, Gurgaon, 122001, Delhi NCR, Corp. Firm Registration Number: 255 (2010-11), Fax: +91 11-66173993 Tele: +91 9434356957
You have received this e-mail in the genuine belief that its contents would be of interest to you. If you don’t like this mail, we’ll honour your opt-out request
From: Dr. Rita Sen [k@dashboardstar.online]
Date: Wed 10/3/2018 1:03 AM
Subject: British Journal of Applied Science & Technology (4.1)
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Frequency: Weekly ...
Publication model: Online as well as journal Hard copy options.
Publication charge: 100 USD (up to the end of this month, Original charge is 500 USD)
Submission deadline: up to end of this month (for discount)
Present Volume: vol 27
NAAS Score (2018): 5.32
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This journal follows highly respected and toughest Advanced OPEN peer-review system (Example http://bit.ly/2GIXx6q). We hope that you will appreciate this Advanced OPEN peer-review system, which is expected to give doubtless scholarly benefit and impact to the authors in long run.
Proposed Time Schedule: Submission to first editorial decision with review comments: 3 weeks Submission to publication: 6 weeks
Abstracting/indexing::Many respected abstracting/indexing services covered our journals. ISI Web of Science citations (Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2) US National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog [NLM ID: 101664541] Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, ProQuest, EBSCOhost (USA), HINARI (United Nation's Database) AGORA (United Nation's FAO database), Google scholar (h5-index: 12 and h5-median: 16) (http://bit.ly/2sTx7Kq) Qualis (Brazilian index) (BJAST), CNKI (China) Ulrich's, CrossRef, Chemical Abstracts Service (USA
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Best regards,
Dr Rita Sen
Reg. Office: UK: Third Floor, 207 Regent Street, London, W1B 3HH,UK, Registered in England and Wales, Company Registration Number: 8988029, Fax: +44 20-3031-1429
India: U GF, DLF City Phase-III, Gurgaon, 122001, Delhi NCR, Corp. Firm Registration Number: 255 (2010-11), Fax: +91 11-66173993 Tele: +91 9434356957
You have received this e-mail in the genuine belief that its contents would be of interest to you. If you don’t like this mail, we’ll honour your opt-out request
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Sent: Sun, May 2, 2021, at 1:51 PM
Subject: Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology
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The publisher of the Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports is Science Domain International (SDI, discussed on this blog). That SDI is the publisher is well hidden on the journal's website (), but the addresses in the emails and the company registration number lead one to SDI. In addition, the addresses and "publisher name" of Ms. M. B. Mondal, Ph.D., in the contact page (https://www.journalajarr.com/index.php/AJARR/about/contact) point directly to SDI.

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Email

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Sunday, April 11, 2021

SCIREA Journal of Mathematics

SCIREA is an opaque publisher that does not reveal its location and staff. Its website describes the SCIREA Journal of Mathematics as "an international, scientific peer-reviewed open access journal published online by SCIREA" and promises publication within approximately 25 days of submission. It accomplishes this feat without a named editor-in-chief. The listings for the "editorial board" go on and on, surpassing 1,000 members apparently motivated to write instant reports by "vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC [author publishing charge of $330 as of April 11, 2021] of their next publication in any SCIREA journal, in appreciation of the work done."

The "Instructions for Authors" contain these "Open Science Policy Guide Lines to Submit the Manuscript: The absolute prototype for manuscript is originality, high scientific quality and interest to a multidisciplinary audience." Among these works for a multidisciplinary audience are "On Еc-(δ-ßc)-Compact Spaces and Еc-(δ-ßc)-Separation Axioms" and "The Structure of Groups GL(3,F)."

The "issues" of the journal are often single articles. The abstract of one such 14-page article on "The So-called Seqed and Scientific cradle of the angle θ in ancient Egypt" (vol. 3, issue 2, April 24, 2018) begins:

Science is a matter of asking for information by specifying the difference between fact and opinion. Fact in a scientific context is a generally accepted reality, but still open to scientific inquiry, as opposed to an absolute truth, which is not a part of science. The hypotheses and theories are generally based on objective inferences, unlike opinions, which are generally based on subjective influences. Therefore and hence we can say ‘the facts versus the opinions’.

Email

From: Newcomb Patricia [newcomb@sjmathematics.org]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 1:15 PM
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NOTICE: As of 28 May 2021, I have stopped reproducing the incessant "Warm greetings!" emails from SCIREA journals. Pennsylvania State University has blacklisted the webpages for submitting manuscripts, noting that "Access to the Website you were trying to use has been blocked because it could possibly be unsafe or potentially malicious."

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Archives of Medical and Clinical Research is entrenched to create a platform

The Archives of Medical and Clinical Research is another website with no recognizable publisher. Its spam violates the CAN-SPAM Act. The domain name jamcr.net shown in its email is registered to Domains By Proxy. The website's contact page gives no physical address--only a pair of URLs (amcr.editor@gmail.com and editor@jamcr.org). That's better than a fake address, though.

Digging deeper, one can find that the last domain name was created a few months ago (January 11, 2021) and registered to:

Organization: Ubitech Solutions
Kind: individual
Mailing Address: Madhya Pradesh, India

What about the journal itself? It has no ISSN listed. It has no editor-in-chief (or, if it does, it does not reveal who he or she is).

The Author Guidelines appear to be plagiarized. They are practically identical to those on Frontiers in Medical Case Reports, 4-73, S. Lingotum, Choutuppal, Hyderabad, Andhrapradesh, India 508252. Both start and end as follows (with identical text that I won't bother to reproduce the text sandwiched in between):

Frontiers in Medical Case Reports

Article Format and Guidelines
Frontiers in Medical Case Reports publishes original research articles of outstanding medical importance. We will consider manuscripts of any length; we encourage the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings that might be based on a more limited range of experiments.
...
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All articles published in Frontiers in Medical Case Reports are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is made possible by an article-publication charges (APC) that covers the range of publishing services we provide. This includes provision of online tools for editors and authors, article production and hosting, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, and customer services. The APC, payable when your manuscript is editorially accepted and before publication, is charged to either you, or your funder, institution or employer.
Only authors of accepted articles are charged Article Publication Charges GBP 1200 and the payment process begins after an article has been accepted.

Archives of Medical and Clinical Research

Article Format and Guidelines
Archives of Medical and Clinical Research publishes original research articles of outstanding medical importance. We will consider manuscripts of any length; we encourage the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings that might be based on a more limited range of experiments.
...
Article Publication Charges
All articles published in Archives of Medical and Clinical Research are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is made possible by an article-publication charges (APC) that covers the range of publishing services we provide. This includes provision of online tools for editors and authors, article production and hosting, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, and customer services. The APC, payable when your manuscript is editorially accepted and before publication, is charged to either you, or your funder, institution or employer.
Only authors of accepted articles are charged Article Publication Charges GBP 1200 and the payment process begins after an article has been accepted.

This is not to say that either journal is the true author of the posted guidelines. For example, both contain the following paragraph that is part of the instructions for authors in the Association for Psychological Science's journals: "The structure described here applies to all articles other than Commentaries. Note that although Short Reports are published without an abstract, an abstract must be entered during the submission process to facilitate review." [Update, 4/19/21: It also is worth noting that the two journals may well be the handiwork of the same individual.]

The Frontiers journal at least has names for "editor-in-chiefs" [sic], but, for what it is worth, the lists of editors of both journals are dominated by the same names:

⊘ Dr. Nikolaos A. Chrysanthakopoulos, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
⊘ Dr. Liang Ye, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, The University of Health and Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), Texas, USA
⊘ Dr. Maria António Castro, Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
⊘ Dr. Bhavin Sonani, M.D., MsPH,CPE , Associate Lead Hospitalist, Department Chair, Internal Medicine, HSHS Medical Group, St. John’s Hospital, Springfield, IL, USA
⊘ Dr. Shardul Kulkarni, Research Assistant Professor, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States

⊘ Dr. Nikolaos A. Chrysanthakopoulos, Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
⊘ Dr. Liang Ye, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, The University of Health and Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), Texas, USA
⊘ Dr. Maria António Castro, Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
⊘ Prof. Wei Liu, Professor of Medicine, Director, Institute of Digestive Disease, China Three Gorges University, China

Email

From: submissions [submissions@jamcr.net]
Sent: Tue, Apr 6 at 12:31 PM
Subject: Archives of Medical and Clinical Research
Dear Researcher,
Greetings,
Archives of Medical and Clinical Research is a peer-reviewed, broad scope open-access journal which publishes original research articles, case reports, review articles, short communications that are not restricted to diagnosis, diseases, outcomes, signs, symptoms, treatment and new findings of researches.
The journal is entrenched to create a platform for health care professionals, researchers, practitioners of all over the globe to publish the substantial and complete research and significant information about novel findings of diseases or syndromes.
Authors are cordially invited to submit their next manuscript to publish in the upcoming issue of Archives of Medical and Clinical Research.
A High-Quality research papers are invited those are original and plagiarism free must be prepared in MS word should be submitted electronically as an attachment on E-mail Id editor@jamcr.org
Waiting for your valuable submission.
Regards,
Editorial Manager
Archives of Medical and Clinical Research (AMCR)

Sunday, April 4, 2021

From Science PG's International Јoᴜrnаl of Law and Society

A discussion of SciencePG and several of its journals is in a posting from January 2017. The following emails are from its International Јoᴜrnаl of Law and Society:

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Saturday, March 27, 2021

The "Not-profit" Knowledge Empowerment Foundation (KEMFO) Sells "Self Book Publication"

Knowledge Empowerment Foundation's spam and website emphasize that the organization is "registered by Govt. of India (Reg.no.E/11049/Rajkot)" as a non-profit NGO. It uses the domain name kemfo.org, which was registered by Namecheap.com in 2018.

KEMFO is not an open-access publisher. To the contrary, it demands that authors assign their copyright to it on the absurd theory that this benefits authors because it lets this Rajkot firm "negotiate subsidiary licenses to database aggregators and document supply companies, and allows for permission to be given in reproducing articles in books, for library loans, for electronic reserve,etc. in an efficient manner."

The website has a tab for "journal" that led nowhere as of 3/1/21. Within a month, there were four online journals with one or two issues each. A "book store" is stocked with four books costing between $45 and $200. The $200 ones are Why Gesiti? and Why Gesiti 4.0.

The trustees of the foundation are Sharadchandra Jamnadas Mehta, Hasmeetaben Sharadchandra Mehta, Tushar Sharadchandra Mehta, and Gitaben Tusharbhai Mehta.

UPDATE of 4/4/21

Trustee Tushar Mehta wrote me asking "May I know what is illegit or flaky about our foundation or its activity ?" I hope readers understand that the entry for a journal or publisher on this blog is not necessarily an accusation of illegal conduct or even mere flakiness. The blog is a response to the massive quantity of spam solicitations sent to academics. Before going into print, scholars need to separate the wheat from the chaff, as the quality of both bona fide and wannabe publishers varies. Unfortunately, the emails from many publishers and conference organizers do not inspire confidence about their level of quality control and practices for quality assurance.

The Cambridge English dictionary defines "flaky" as "behaving in a way that is strange, not responsible or not expected." To decide whether the Mehtas' foundation is behaving that way, readers may want to check the unsolicited spam for the elements of an "unfair or deceptive act or practice" as defined in Section 5(a) of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, 15 U.S.C. § 7704(a), to ask whether claims of rigorous peer review by multiple, expert reviewers "usually completed within 15 days of the article's submission" (Analytical Chemistry International Author Guidelines, p. 3) are plausible, to consider whether defining plagiarism as "... or falsification of research results" (ibid., p. 1), is strange, to wonder whether a new publisher can truly claim to have "developed a strong reputation," et cetera.

Email

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 08:06:36
To: Dhkaye
From: Materials Science Research [emsr@kemfo.net]
Subject: Get Paid for published Research Articles
Hello,
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As an acknowledgment of your invaluable contribution and as an encouragement for your future work, we will reward the corresponding author with a payment of 50 USD for each published manuscript.
Please note that we rigorously enforce a strict zero-tolerance policy against plagiarism, encompassing unauthorized use of published materials and manipulation of research outcomes. Our Ethics and Malpractice statement can be found on our website for your reference.
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To: Dhkaye
Sent: Monday, Aug 21, 2023 at 04:36:34 AM EDT
Subject: Editors invited for non profit social science journal
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Saturday, March 13, 2021

Fake Website for the Real Scandia Journal

An email to "Dear !" with a request from "our esteemed journal" that is "so interested to invite you to submit any of your other new works to our journal" which "publishes original papers on researches in all fields of the human and natural sciences" set off the usual alarm bells. Nonetheless, Wikipedia reports that "Scandia is an academic journal for history which has been published since 1928, when it was established by the Swedish historian Lauritz Weibull (1873-1960). The journal, which has a Scandinavian scope, is, and has always been, affiliated with the Department of History at Lund University."

Although this stub could be planted and the expanded scope of the journal is, shall we say, ambitious for a history department, such a journal (with the full name of Scandia Tidskrift for Historisk Fornskning) is published at Lund University. Its inclusion in this blog is not meant to disparage it. I mention it in case any readers have more information to share about it.

UPDATE 3/13/21, 9:28 PM ET: "Smut Clyde" posted a comment pointing to the true URL for the journal, namely, https://journals.lub.lu.se/scandia. It remains "a historical journal dedicated to central themes of Nordic historical research." Clyde reports that the spam spoofed the university's email address. The URL for the journal provided in the spam's link (namely, http://scandia.lub.lu-se.org) leads to a fake website with images and design stolen from the university's. The point of this charade eludes me. Some kind of phishing? Maybe if one submits an article, a bill follows? I did not go that far!

Email

From: Scandia [announcement@scandiaemail-lu-se.org]
Date: Saturday, March 13 at 7:00 AM ET
Subject: Dear !, Please note our new Announcement for the submission of Original Research Articles
Dear !
We have reviewed your other research manuscripts which are accessible on the internet. We are so interested to invite you to submit any of your other new works to our journal.
I would like to let you know that our esteemed journal "SCANDIA" publishes original papers on researches in all fields of the human and natural sciences. The mission of the journal is to promote excellence in leadership practice by providing a venue for academics, students, and practitioners to publish current and significant empirical and conceptual research in all fields of sciences. The journal includes a very wide variety of areas and we welcome submission from researchers from all around the world. In addition to research papers, the journal includes book reviews, conference reports, case studies, research notes and commentaries. The journal currently owns the five-year impact factor of 0.140 (JCR2020).
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ISSN: 0036-5483
Impact Factor: 0.167
5-year Impact Factor 0.140 (JCR2020)
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Monday, March 8, 2021

From the General Coordinator of the Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal

I was not going to include the nascent Swiss Chinese Law Review in this blog because its spam and website suggest that it is aimed at practicing lawyers (as in the email's promise that "[y]our contribution will act as a business card"). Yet, the emails also speak of "academic submissions" and "great minds"; they invite "legal scholars from around the world to join"; the journal has instituted "peer review"; and the website calls it a "journal for legal academics." So finally, the spam from 张天泽 (Zhang Tianze) of the Swiss Chinese Law Association, with its frivolous claims of confidentiality and privilege, has spurred me action.

Mr. Zhang calls himself "a general coordinator of the Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal" -- among many other things. As a young Chinese lawyer, Mr. Zhang burst onto the scene with a couple of registered associations formed in Geneva. In 2018, he devised the "ILTIA International Law and Technology Interoperability Association," which is quite a mouthful. His profile there (https://iltia.org/profile/tianze-zhang/) reads as follows::

Tianze Zhang is the founder as well as the current president of ILTIA. He envisages the legal world would change more in the next 20 years than it has in the past two centuries while the institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. He started to promote standardization of legal service since two years ago, when he started to work as a Chinese lawyer.
He founded ILTIA and dedicates to promote it as the most influencial non-profit organization on law and technology in the world. To achieve this, he focuses on the inclusive community building and development of core business. The members of the association share the passion and vision of impact of legal technology to tomorrow’s legal world, and they come from a variety of background [sic]. He promotes collaboration with law firms on improving their global innovation.
He works as a consultant at United Nations Office of Geneva. He is a Chinese lawyer in practise, with experience in the Land Dispute, International Dispute Resolution, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Private International Law and cyber security law. He received two bachelor degrees in the field of law and economics in China, a master in Law from University College London, an (equivalent) master degree in International Relations from Europe(Part-time). He was selected as a participant of the 70th Session of the International Law Seminar from over 305 applicants as well as one of 20 candidates for the annual International Summer School on regulation of local public services over from 800 applicants by Turin School of Local Regulations. He is also the founder of Chinaindex.org, an independent research project to promote the understanding between China and World.

All the ILTIA webpages have a DONATE button that leads to "donator details." For an individual membership fee of 80 Euros (reduced from 120), you can have such benefits as "Priority to be selected to join our conferences collaborated with partner institutions" and "Possible to apply for the @ILTIA.org email address," not to mention "Publish your articles on our website, and be included to our newsletter to our more than 30,000 global audiences." January 28, 2020, marked the first "Publication of International Journal of Law and Technology" as "the monthly journal of the leading review of the update of the global development of the law and technology." We can rest assured that this was "a great day of ILTIA as well as the development of the law and technology."

The Swiss Chinese Law Association (UID CHE-329.323.885) was registered at the end of April, 2019. "Currently, the people holding decision-making roles are Tianze Zhang (President), Devin Gautier ép. (Member and Secretary), and Yue Huang (Member and Cashier)." (https://business-monitor.ch/en/companies/998748-swiss-chinese-law-association-scla). Ms. Huang "currently works with IATA as a manager of aviation environment" (https://cnsla.org/product/sog7/).

The Flaky Academic Conferences blog displays some of the association's conference spam, although it may be a stretch to say that the meetings are being marketed as particularly academic as opposed to commercial and professional networking events.

The journal editors are "Jerry Guo (Chinese), Wei Jianan (Chinese) and David Dahlborn (English)." Not much information about them pops up in web searches. The About Us page of the journal identifies Wei Jianan as "LLM" and "an in-house legal counsel at Veolia." Mr. Guo is simply "LLM." Mr. Dahlborn is working toward his Ph.D. in history at Cambridge University.

From: Swiss Chinese Law Association [journal@cnsla.org]
Sent: Mon, Mar 22 at 11:40 AM
Subject: Join our great journey with Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal
Greetings,
As the 3rd Issue of the Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal is going to publish, and we therefore hope our journal can substantially promote you and your law firm's global reach. I therefore attached our plan of sponsorship for your reference.
We aspire to provide a readable, high-quality publication that can provide new perspectives and connections in line with our motto “critique for critical times”. The SCLR has received over 150 proposed articles from lawyers and academics in dozens of countries.
Our peer-review systems draws on a pool of over 100 registered reviewers to control the standard of our publication. To aid our strategic direction and professional quality, we also draw on the expertise of our advisory board, composed of committed legal leaders. Not least we rely on a dedicated team of editors and translators endeavour to raise the standards of our publication and engagement in our community of contributors and readers for every new issue.
Please don't hesitate to contact journal@cnsla.org for your interests.
I hope this email bring you the best luck of the week! [← If this is the best, I'm in trouble.]
Thank you so much for you always be with us in this great journey of connection and collaboration.
Tianze Zhang
Coordinator of Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal
From: Tianze Zhang [forum@cnsla.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021, at 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: Happy New Year David Kaye ! Call for Contributions for 3rd Issue of Swiss Chinese Law Review
How are you? Will you contribute to the 3rd Volume of the Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal?
I am writing to invite you to submit to the journal of the Swiss Chinese Law Review. I wish to bring good news for you- as the 3rd Issue, although we will focus on the issue of the Trade Secrets, we will also invite you to consider to submit the articles related to the China- EU Investment Deal from both positive and critical side. Meanwhile, the submission related to ADR such as arbitration, mediation and International negotiation are always welcome.
More than that, I am also inviting you to consider joining as a columnist for the Journal. As a columnist, you will write an article for to bring “the critiques for the critical time” at least every two weeks, and you will bring an insight to the relevant fields of your practice to the Journal. If you are interested, please send your bio, your introduction, as well as your selected publication to the editor of SCLR Mr David Dahlborn at david.dahlborn@cnsla.org
Our academic submissions system experienced a technical issue over the weekend. If you created an account and submitted an article on January 9 or 10, we would, therefore, like to ask you that you repeat this process to be certain that your contribution reaches our editors. We apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please find the link to the submissions page here.
We greatly look forward to receiving your contribution to the next issue. I would like to take the opportunity to remind you that your articles for this issue are being considered at no cost. [← And in the future?] Furthermore, please note that the deadline for contributions to the printed editions is 31 January and that we also consider articles for online publication on a rolling basis.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact David Dahlborn at david.dahlborn@cnsla.org
Very best wishes,
Tianze Zhang
Swiss Chinese Law Association (SCLA)
From: SCLA [tianze.zhang@sclaacademy.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at 10:33 PM
Subject: We are looking for your support David Kaye
The third issue of the Swiss Chinese Law Review("Critiques for the critical time") will be published in March. For this issue, we have received eighty submissions from over thirty countries and regions. The theme of the forthcoming issue is trade secrets and intellectual property protection. There is no fee attached to any submissions, and, from this issue onwards, we have implemented a peer-review mechanism and established advisory committee, to ensure the high quality of the journal. The journal will be published bilingually in Chinese and English.
We are now offering an unique opportunity for selected law firms and institutes [← So why write someone who is neither a law firm nor an institute?] to influence our audiences in China and around the world by placing a one-page advertisement in our journal and securing significant marketing space on its website.
One of the greatest advantages that we can offer advertisers is to help you tailor the design of your advert to our audience. We will help you convey your voice and values to contribute to awareness of your firm around the world, most significantly in China. Hardcopies of our second issue were posted directly to over 140 Chinese law firms, as well as dozens of firms and academic institutions in Europe, ensuring that your brand will be square on the desk of influential lawyers and potential clients in China.
Therefore, if you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the journal by placing a one-page advertisement, please contact the general coordinator and the creative director of the journal, Ms. Seungyeon Lee at seungyeon.lee@cnsla.org by 10th March 2020.
Tianze Zhang
General Coordinator of the Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal
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Happy new year, from the Swiss Chinese Law Association. I am so honoured to be with you at the beginning of 2021! I wish you and your family a great start!
As a general coordinator of the Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal, I am pleased to announce the Call for contributions: Arbitration and Trade Secrets (Deadline 31 January). The third issue of the Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal will feature analysis of trade secrets. The theme for this issue will be trade secrets. (For the Reports of the Global Forum on Trade Secrets, which held on Nov 2020, you are invited to download here).
What is Intellectual Property all about? What is a trade secret? On 2016 the US passed the “Defend Trade Secrets Act”. In 2018, China passed the Anti Unfair Competition Law, and the EU Commission promulgated the Directive on Trade Secrets. What have these new regulations meant? How are trade secrets changing global development?
What do trade secrets mean for labour law? Which best practices should apply to trade secrets? For example, what are the repercussion of knowing of a trade secret? Could it limit employees’ ability to leave their company, or raise costs of non-disclosure agreements?
Intellectual property, meanwhile, is not an end in itself, but a tool to achieve certain objectives in the interest of the society. How to balance the public interest in the trade secret protection? Do trade secrets and intellectual property facilitate or stifle innovation? Have you seen clients benefit or lose out from their implementation?
Most importantly, what have trade secrets meant for your work? Have you worked on cases that have changed the field, or indicated how the market has changed? How has your experience influenced the way you consider these questions?
The Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal's motto and vision is to provide “critique for critical times”. We want contributors to provoke and widen the minds of our readers. Most importantly, we connect lawyers across international and cultural borders. Your contribution will act as a business card to our world-wide community of European and Chinese lawyers. We invite lawyers and legal scholars from around the world to join our growing network.
We are welcoming contributions for featured articles of analysis, up to 4,000 words in length, or opinion columns of up to 1,000 words, addressing the questions above or related topics. We strongly encourage articles based on your personal experience of real cases and practical or theoretical dilemmas you have encountered in your professional work.
We welcome your contributions, analyses of legal cases, best practice advice or personal experience on how to approach arbitration and trade secrets; from Brexit to Belt and Road, AI to IP, or Bitcoin-mining to windfarms.
Please note that all contributions must be original pieces of work. If your draft has been published elsewhere, includes text that is copied without attributions or been only superficially altered, or is a re-worded version of a briefing document, it will be detected and your work will not be considered.
SUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTION HERE.
We also invite you to join the Journal as a peer-reviewer. Please register an account HERE with indicating your interests.
For any questions, email our English-Language Co-Editor David Dahlborn at david.dahlborn@cnsla.org .
Tianze Zhang
Tianze Zhang张天泽 | Committee Member
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From: Swiss Chinese Law Association [forum@cnsla.org]
Sent: Thu, May 27, 2021, at 3:50 AM
Join us tomorrow David Kaye!
How are you David Kaye?
Can I invite you to the first SCLR CHALLENGE, to be held on 13:00-15：00 CEST Time on 28th MAY 2021 (FRIDAY)?All you need to do is using one hour to think about a topic to present in 3 miniutes and to discuss in the next 7 minutes.
The idea of the SCLR Challenge is to present and discuss the most challenging issues in the Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR) field. Invite you to give a 3 minutes presentation, and follow up a 7 minutes discussion by peer experts.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-iorDkjHNNNMHFvto9Ik5qwBxZo8oGT (free of charge)
The aim of this challenge will be to exchange the newest and most brilliant plan for ADR in the SCLA community , meanwhile to develop it into an article for the Swiss Chinese Law Review Journal. The best entities will be also featured in the upcoming issue of the journal and great articles will star in a special seminar open session for journal readers and contributors.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-iorDkjHNNNMHFvto9Ik5qwBxZo8oGT
Really looking forward to meeting you soon!
We are grateful to our partners: Ruggle Partner, Kubas Kos Galkowski and Chigbu Co.
Yours,
Tianze
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