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):
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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Article Publication Charges
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.
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. 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. 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
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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)
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