Friday, April 21, 2023

The HSOA Journal of Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences Is Back!

After years of silence, the Journal of Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences (JFLIS) is back in my mailbox. In 2016, I noted that its publisher, Herald Scholarly Open Access, had one journal with a dog sitting on its editorial board. JFLIS continues in this tradition. Even with a dead man working on its board, it still "publishes up-to-date key excellences." (The post-mortem interval for the deceased population geneticist, Ranajit Chakraborty, is about 4.6 years.)

Among the other editorial members (as listed on the JFLIS website) are the following:

  • Sue Black
    Professor, Department of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, University College Of London, UNITED STATES
  • Henry C Lee
    Chair Professor, Department of Forensic Science Program, University Of New Haven, UNITED STATES
  • Brion Benninger
    Executive Director, Department of Medical Anatomical Sciences, Western University Of Health Sciences, UNITED STATES
  • Brooke W Kammrath
    Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science, University Of New Haven, UNITED STATES
  • Claire Glynn
    Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science, University Of New Haven, UNITED STATES
  • Baneshwar Singh
    Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science, Virginia Common Wealth University, UNITED STATES
  • Marilyn T Miller
    Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, UNITED STATES
  • Lawrence Kobilinsky
    hairman, Science, City University Of New York, UNITED STATES
  • Gloria Proni
    Associate Professor, Science Department, City University Of New York, UNITED STATES
  • Artem V Domashevskiy
    Assistant Professor, Department of Sciences, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice, UNITED STATES
  • Jessica Zarate
    Research Scientist, Department of Forensic Science, Ferris State University, UNITED STATES
  • Eve Lowenstein
    Associate Professor, Departmenr of Dermatology, New York University School Of Medicine, UNITED STATES
  • Igor Ovchinnikov
    Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University Of California, UNITED STATES
  • Christian M Crowder
    Director, Department of Forensic Anthropology, UT South Western, UNITED STATES
  • Charles Clifford Boyd
    Professor, Department of Anthropological Sciences, University Of Michigan, UNITED STATES
  • Gisela Bichler
    Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, UNITED STATES
  • Ravindra Fernando
    Forensic Pathologist, Department of Forensic Pathology and Legal Medicine, The Medico Legal Centre, UNITED STATES
  • Matthew J Delisi
    Professor and Coordinator, Criminal Justice Studies, Iowa State University, UNITED STATES
  • Peter D Anderson
    Forensic Pharmacologist, Randstad Healthcare Boston, UNITED STATES
  • Evgeny Katz
    Professor, Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, UNITED STATES
  • Franklin L Dorman
    Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, UNITED STATES
Email
  • From: forensicscience [forensicscience@heraldforresearchers.com]
    Sent: Friday, April 21, 2023 7:30 AM
    Subject: Formal request for submissions: Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences
    Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,
    Greetings from the day hope you are doing great!
    Journal of Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences is a bimonthly Journal with ISSN: 2473-733X
    We appreciate if you could submit a short review or a short commentary related to your previous Article entitled “Deadly statistics: quantifying an ‘unacceptable risk’ in capital punishment.” or any other topic of your interest.
    It would be great if you could submit in March so that I could process it for the Upcoming Issue. I request you to submit it by 14th April, 2023.
    You have manuscript forward it to this mail id.
    Note: We will extend the date of submission as per your convenience.
    If it is not feasible for you, please let us know your feasible time to contribute.
    Please provide me your acceptance for the same
    Regards,
    Hillary Rose
    Editorial Assistant, 2561 Herndon, VA 20171, United States

Saturday, April 8, 2023

The Journal of Clinical and Medical Images Is Imploring for Manuscript

The placement of the Journal of Clinical and Medical Images on Beall's list of predatory journals was not enough to kill it, but it is still "imploring for manuscript." It claims be a U.S. journal, but it has no publisher's name associated with it, and the same Las Vegas address (down to the suite number) is used by Pure Cbd Oil (endorsed by no less than Drs. Phil and Oz), Ideal Staffing Inc., Michael and Company CPA, VHT Studios, Tromp Enterprises, and only Regus (the company that rents space and mailboxes) knows how many more unrelated businesses. The owners of the domain names on the web and in emails are hidden (registration by GDomains By Proxy).

If the people behind the facade and the ones staffing it are in the U.S., they have yet to attain the level of English language proficiency one would expect of a bona fide journal publishing in this language. The website explains that the journal "retards publishing." (Stated more fully, it "retards publishing a duplicate article which is already published.") "Authors are insisted to follow the guidelines." And so on.

In case potential marks (excuse me, I mean authors) do not know what the different fields of medicine are, the website has a list with definitions such as the following (cut and pasted in full):

Urology is the branch of diseases of the urinary organs in females and the urinary and sex organs in males. also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the male and female urinary-tract system and the male reproductive

In sum, this journal "is an esteemed and zealous in publishing various scientific and medical journals which acts as a shell ... ." But never fear, it has photographs of its many editorial board members, and its "double blinded peer review process where authors and reviewers don’t know the identities of each other and are kept highly confidential" is unbelievably speedy. These folks "will publish within 2 weeks if the artwork is clear and acceptable."

Email

From: Journal of Clinical and Medical Images [submission@joclmeim.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 7:42 AM
Subject: Share Your Research Through Open Access - Journal of Clinical and Medical Images (ISSN 2640-9615)
Dear Doctor. David H Kaye,
Hope you are doing well..!
It’s a great honor for me to consider you as a potential author and invite you to contribute a manuscript for consideration and publication in the forthcoming issue to be published in the Journal of Clinical and Medical Images (ISSN 2640-9615)
If you are interested kindly submit your manuscript as an attachment to the below link: ...
We will be looking forward to hearing a positive response from you soon.
Regards
Sanderson
Editorial Manager
500 N. Rainbow Blvd
Suite 300, Las Vegas
Nevada 89107 USA

From: Journal of Clinical and Medical Images [contact@joclmeim.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 1:24 AM
Subject: Imploring For Manuscript _ Journal of Clinical and Medical Images (ISSN 2640-9615)
Dear Doctor. David H Kaye,
As an Editorial Manager of Journal of Clinical and Medical Images (IF: 1.924*) , we are pleased to invite to contribute a manuscript to our journal.
This is an open access, peer reviewed journal and following the principles of adequate peer review processes, it acknowledges high quality theoretical and experimental research articles.
For online submission, please visit ... where you can submit your manuscript.
Hope to receive your manuscript.
Regards
Sanderson
Editorial Manager
Journal of Clinical and Medical Images (ISSN 2640-9615)
United States

From: Journal of Clinical and Medical Images [contact@jclinmimages.com]
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2023 9:18 AM
Subject: Follow-Up Mail _ Journal of Clinical and Medical Images (ISSN 2640-9615)
Dear Doctor. David H Kaye,
Greetings from Journal Of Clinical And Medical Images (IF _ 1.924*)
We are writing to Follow Up on my previous email requesting a copy of your manuscript.
Recently, we came across your published articles which are fascinating, and interesting and we consider the articles contain high academic values. Therefore, we would like to invite you to submit your manuscript to this journal.
If you are interested kindly submit your manuscript to this email: submission@jclmed.org
Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
We look forward to your positive response.
Regards
Sanderson
Editorial Manager
Sanderson