Des ‘prédateurs’ pour ceux qui veulent publier vite (et publier ce qui est déjà publié) : Chirurgiens ! Faites attention

Ce n'est pas la première fois que j'avertis sur ces pratiques, mais je reçois vraiement trop de sollicitations bizarres. Certains d'entre vous publient chez des prédateurs. Voici deux exemples de début mai 2013.

Ces 2 demandes viennent de Lifescience Global (Pakistan et Canada), et de OMICS group qui font partie des prédateurs. Parmi les prédateurs, il y a probablement Hindawi, surnommée The house of spam. Hindawi a une adresse au Caire (Egypte) et une adresse à New YorK. Hindawi est plus profitable que Elsevier. Demain (14 mai), je vous expose un cas intéressant de chirurgiens parisiens prestigieux qui n'ont pas hésité à publier chez Hindawi pour 300 $, et en plus pour dupliquer un bon travail. La motivation ? Augmenter les lignes sur un CV en trompant les lecteurs et en polluant la science……

Premier exemple reçu le 8 mai :

Dear Dr. Hervé Maisonneuve,

Greetings!

Intellectual Property Rights: Open Access (OMICS Group) is going to publish its inaugural issue this month. So, I, the managing editor of this journal take this liberty to welcome you to send your manuscripts (editorials, case reports, research, review, mini-review, etc.) to us at the given mail ID or at our editorial tracking system www.scholarscentral.com.

As an honorarium, I would be glad to provide you complete waiver* for your submitted articles wherein I will highly appreciate your support towards Open Access, if you are funded.

*Complete waiver will be applicable to all articles those submitted before May 24^th, 2013 for inaugural
issue of the journal.

We always look forward to have a close and long lasting scientific relationship for the benefit of scientific community.

Awaiting your positive response. I am sure you can’t afford to miss this chance.

With kind regards,

Renee Matthews

Editorial Office- Intellectual Property Rights. OMICS Group Inc., 2360 Corporate Circle, Suite 400, Henderson NV 89074-7722, USA

Email: editor.ipr@esciencecental.org or editor.ipr@omicsonline.net, Phone: +1- 888-843-8169 Fax: +1-650-618-1417 Toll Free: +1-800-216-6499

Deuxième exemple reçu le 9 mai 2013 :

Dear Dr. H. Maisonneuve :

I have recently accepted the responsibilities as the Co-Editor in Chief for the new publication entitled “Intellectual Disability Diagnosis Journal”.  I am pleased to invite you to submit proposal for a research paper or review article for publication in this journal.

Intellectual Disability Diagnosis Journal aims to describe original work on Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability in children and adults. It covers not just the technical aspects of these procedures both in prenatal, newborn and postnatal screening, but also the impact which the process of testing has on individuals, parents, families and public-health in general.

The journal seeks to publish research work related to genetic intellectual disability syndromes using a range of approaches from medicine, psychiatry, psychology, pharmacy, biology, epidemiology, bio-informatics, biopharmaceutical to association and population studies as well as sociological, ethical, philosophical, legal and quality control issues with the ultimate goal of advancing the knowledge on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of the Intellectual Disabilities.

The journal is published with the assistance of Lifescience Global, committed to publishing research rapidly online and providing a platform for worldwide dissemination using modern publishing model. The publisher is a member of CrossRef and its publications are indexed by chemical abstracts, CAB Abstracts, OCLC – Worldcat, WHO – HINARI,  Index Copernicus, IMEMR and AsiaNet. The journal accepts original research papers, reviews and short communications.

We are receiving papers for the forthcoming issue, in case you are interested in contributing,  then please send me the title 'or' abstract of your proposed manuscript by email as soon as possible. If you are sending your full manuscript please refer to Guidelines for Authors for detailed information about submitting your paper by email to me.  If you feel that one of your colleagues will be interested to submit a paper, then please feel free to forward this invitation to him.

Looking forward to your cooperation and positive response. I hope you will encourage the efforts we are putting together for this unique journal.

Regards

Paula Jorge, Ph.D., Co-Editor-in-Chief, Center for Medical Genetics Jacinto de Magalhães, Porto
PORTUGAL, Tel: +351 226 070 331 & +351 965 811 023, Fax : +351 226 070 399, E-mail: paula.jorge_iddj@lifescienceglobal.com