No, no, Nancy!
Nancy Ronald is soliciting, quite literally in this instance. She claims to have read one of my published articles, and found it to be a great source of information. I'm relieved, and the editor of the accepting journal would be too, to know that Nancy approves of his decision.
Her journal ensures a high standard of quality through review by potential
reviewers. Perhaps I'm being picky, but I would expect review by actual reviewers. Preferably, actual reviewers who're experts in the field of the manuscripts that they're reviewing. But that's just me, I guess.
From: Nancy Ronald <biotechnology@escientificpublishers.com>
Subject: Solicitation for article Submission in JBI
Warm Greetings from EScientific Publishers! Hope you are doing well! We would like to take the pleasure to appreciate your expertise and professionalism in the field of Biotechnology on behalf of Journal of Biotechnology and Immunology. Your contribution in the arena of Biotechnology is highly appreciable. Especially, your article entitled “[completely irrelevant publication to the field of biotechnology]” is very interesting and after reading it, I felt that it will definitely be a great source of information to a wide range of research community. We cordially invite you to submit a similar article/case report for publication in Journal of Biotechnology and Immunology. Please have a glance at the below link to view the latest articles https://escientificpublishers.com Journal of Biotechnology and Immunology desires publishing quality research and ensures authors with: Ø Rapid onset of article processing. Ø Providing timely update of article status. Ø Thorough peer review process through potential reviewers. Ø Increased visibility of the research work. We look forward to receive your valuable article on/before April 01, 2022 for publication in the upcoming issue of the journal. Submit original copies at https://escientificpublishers.com/submission or mail to biotechnology@escientificpublishers.com For a particular enquiry, if it's not too much trouble, contact. Kind Regards, Nancy Ronald Managing Editor Journal of Biotechnology and Immunology E-mail: biotechnology@escientificpublishers.com Website: escientificpublishers.com
What's in an 'e'?
I was completey unaware of eScientific Publishers until today. The company seems to be curiously ambivalent as to whether the initial e
is capitalised or not. Details like this don't matter when you're only in it for the scientific integrity, I guess. I'm going to stick with eScientific
, for aesthetic reasons.
eScientific Publishers claims to be based in Australia and the US. The address of their Australian operation is given as Unit barrate street, Robertson Queensland 4109, Australia.
This is a bit of a problem, since there's no Barrate Street in Robertson, QLD. There's a Barratt Street, which is residential, as is their US address. Their ambivalence to professionalism and detail doesn't stop there, though. Just searching for the company on Google brings up the whiff of skeevy incompetence:
eScientific Publishers is a top and high quality open access journals . This is one of best open access journals that strictly maintain the publication standards and ethics to sustain their quality and credibility. We, as Open Access publishers, strive to offer the best in class online science publications.
In the past, I've noted that gutter publishers brag that they offer global distribution, simply through the expedience of shitting out PDF files onto the internet. But eScientific Publishers have far loftier aspirations: why settle for a mere global audience when there's the universe, just for the taking? I'm not sure how they achieve this, presumably some form of satellite transmitter arrangement. (thinking)
That aside, their mission statement is good for a laugh.
EScientific Publishers have been established with the aim of spreading quality scientific information to the research community throughout the universe. We, as Open Access publishers, EScientific Publishers heartily welcomes all the technocrats and authors who had been laying their all in to the area of their interest. It is observed that some researchers or authors have an in depth knowledge in the working field and they work hard for a long time. But they fail to exhibit their work on the world’s platform. EScientific Publishers their research work globally. In this way the author’s or the researcher’s work reaches to the targeted audience. We encourage the open-access platform strongly to offer unhindered access to the papers published through our journals. EScientific Publishers holds very efficient and eminent subject expertises as Editorial structure to regulate the multi-level peer review procedure. EScientific Publishers is the scientific and research solution for scientists, researchers, students in the fields of biomedical, medical, pharmaceutical, engineering, technology, chemical sciences and physical sciences. You never know which article might inspire your next research project and give the world a new discovery or the cure to a disease!
eScientific Publishers, About Us
You never know, indeed. But I'm willing to wager that it'll never be found on escientificpublishers.com. (pipe)
Sixteen months may or may not be a long time in publishing, it depends on what you're publishing I guess. But sixteen months it's been since I last heard from Nancy Ronald. This is the kind of ho I appreciate, one who rarely plops into my inbox. I appreciate those almost as much as the ones who never plop into my inbox.
This is another case of the headers language settings being betrayed by the message body: <body lang="EN-IN"…>. And the message landed in my inbox at 03:34 this morning. So, yeah, Nancy Ronald, Ronald Nancy, Naina Rongmei, or whateverthehell she's called, is spamming me from the Indian subcontinent.
I could try to elicit a response, in an effort to betray her local mail server settings, rather than the campaign server. But, since she has included no tracking image—I opened her message in view source mode first anyway—I don't want to betray to her that she has a live one here.
Once a year is more than often enough.
From: Escientific Publishers <biotechnology@escientificpublishers.org> Subject: Your professional publication in Journal of Biotechnology and Immunology Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:34:07 +0000 Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US
We need your excellence to our journal. Having seen your esteemed profile, we would like to take the pleasure to send you the below cordial invitation: Especially, your article entitled “[irrelevant to the field of biotechnology, or immunology for that matter]” is very interesting and after reading it, I felt that it will definitely be a great source of information to a wide range of research community. Theme: Our desire to publish your potential article at Journal of Biotechnology and Immunology Is it possible for you to support us with your article for this issue release on or before 29th July 2023 please do send an opinion or mini review or case report, etc.. Please have a glance at the below link to view the latest articles https://escientificpublishers.com Submit manuscripts at https://escientificpublishers.com/submission or mail to biotechnology@escientificpublishers.com We are confident that you are always there to support us. Await your response. Nancy Ronald Editorial Manager If you do not wish to receive our mails, kindly reply as Unsubscribe