20th Mar, 2023
Christian Medical College Vellore
Question
Asked 29th Dec, 2021
European Society of Medicine ?
I have received the following polite email request from Medical Research Archives, European Society of Medicine a number of times.
Is it legitimate? Would you mind sharing your thoughts if you have any experience of this kind? Thanks
Dear Dr. Yegnanew A. Shiferaw,
If you have a few minutes I wanted to discuss your COVID-19 research. I am serving as the editor of a special theme issue on Advancements in COVID-19 which will be released by the European Society of Medicine next year and I was thinking that something related to your work on "Regime shifts in the COVID-19 case fatality rate dynamics: A Markov-switching autoregressive model analysis" would be interesting to include in the issue. Perhaps you could tell me more about your research in this area.
This could be in the form of a research article or even a review article.
Might this be a possibility?
Sincerely,
L. Smith, M.D.
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
Online ISSN: 2375-1924
Print ISSN: 2375-1916
PubMed ID: 101668511
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I too got the following 'polite' letter:
Dear Dr. George Joseph,
I wanted to get in touch with you about your aortic aneurysm work. I enjoyed your article "Endografts with mini-cuff-augmented fenestrations for endovascular repair of thoracoabdominal aortic and common iliac artery aneurysms" and was wondering what further research you have done on this topic. This year I am helping to create a special theme issue titled New Perspectives on Aortic Aneurysm which will be published in the official journal of the European Society of Medicine. Your work could be a valuable addition to the theme issue and I hope you would be willing to discuss the possibility of preparing an article.
Is this something you might consider?
Best Regards,
Section editor
Cardiology Editorial Committee
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
ISSN: 2375-1924
NLM (PubMed): 101668511
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sorry for late reply, what kind of question u want to ask me . i was busy in my conference , kindly enlist questions , regards
I believe many of us have received such emails regarding scientific participation in forums and congresses. I believe this kind of organizations looks into scientific and professional media like RG, Academia, LinkedIn, etc., for potential speakers, coordinators, and participants for lucrative activities.
Here I share an adequate academic warning and hint for a potential predatory publisher, see
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Dear Yegnanew A. Shiferaw Besides the interesting link given by Carsten Weerth there are numerous (other) red flags:
-The "European Society of Medicine" is often referred to by the abbreviation ESMED, numerous questions/discussions here on RG warn for this one:
-The following link is not that positive http://flakyc.blogspot.com/2020/11/european-society-of-medicine-esmed.html?m=1
-Looking at https://esmed.org/ there are many red flags such as the contact info Rue le Corbusier 12 Geneva, 1208, Switzerland which is just a mailbox address (hiding their true origin)
-The journal you refer to here https://esmed.org/journals/ is “Medical Research Archives” (https://esmed.org/MRA/mra) this journal is included in the Beall’s list https://beallslist.net/standalone-journals/
-The site https://esmed.org/MRA/ mentions KEI JOURNALS (using the following virtual office address 340 S Lemon Ave #7750 Walnut CA 91789 USA, again to hide their true location) as publisher also mentioned in the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net/ ).
-The publisher is/used to be known as Knowledge Enterprises Incorporated https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_wy/2017-000752820 they all seem linked http://flakyj.blogspot.com/2017/01/knowledge-enterprises-inc-kei-journals.html
So, the whole operation looks like a scam.
Best regards.
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I recommended web site provided by Carsten Weerth & Rob Keller, to check for potential & academic publisher. It seems to be a fake.
Take care of scam sites.
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There was another discussion on that on RG. They are inviting people of different backgrounds and academic interests than medicine. I got similar invitations twice, last year and this week. It is a sort of academic scam.
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I received an invitation recently. Further investigation reveals the following extensive experience: http://flakyc.blogspot.com/2020/11/european-society-of-medicine-esmed.html
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I also was invited to speak. I accepted and was required to pay to register even though I was an invited "keynote speaker" for the ESM conference Aug 4-6.
I have submitted video of my talk because it is to be a virtual meeting. I have not received a link to the meeting yet. I am concerned that this indeed might be a scam and a ripoff.
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There are huge, huge numbers of these fraudsters. They masquerade as academics and learned societies and yet are nothing of the sort. They hide themselves behind 'academic curtains', they want only to deceive particularly junior academics to paying for useless journals to publish papers at low cost to obtain multiple academic publications of no worth yet at cost for CVs, even if it is a couple of hundred American dollars per junior colleague! We really need to warn our currently junior colleagues about this scourge - it is a massive SCAM.
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Many thanks @AndrewMiles, @GauravBhambri and @JuanSanchez-Ramos. Your shared experiences are very helpful and saved a lot of time and hard earned grant money!
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I have received tons of invitations from various journals and conferences, and it was generally clear that you had to "buy" your publication (pay the conference fee and get a publication in an associated journal, or publish with open access fees)... I don't think we should enter this business game, however tempting it may be to get one more publication so easily... If we could all boycott these things, in an ideal world, they would disappear and publications would be a better signal of academic quality. [I'm well aware that the ideal works fares no chance!].
I also received the same invitation, from the European society of medicine, it looked more serious but probably isn't. Note that we don't even get the name of the guest editor. So I guess we shouldn't waste or time on this.
The "business-model" invitations and special issues (as in Frontiers) make it more difficult for "serious" journals and editors to get through, and for non specialist readers to sort out publications. This is a problem in a world in which summaries of scientific research are increasingly used by politicians and firms.
I just had a similar experience. A big red flag for me is that the sender had no specific name and was using the European Society of Medicine as identity.
Just got a similar invite from them too. I suspected they were scammers, as I have received several invitations from predatory publishers and conferences. However, a look at the responses here confirmed they were not for real.
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I too got the following 'polite' letter:
Dear Dr. George Joseph,
I wanted to get in touch with you about your aortic aneurysm work. I enjoyed your article "Endografts with mini-cuff-augmented fenestrations for endovascular repair of thoracoabdominal aortic and common iliac artery aneurysms" and was wondering what further research you have done on this topic. This year I am helping to create a special theme issue titled New Perspectives on Aortic Aneurysm which will be published in the official journal of the European Society of Medicine. Your work could be a valuable addition to the theme issue and I hope you would be willing to discuss the possibility of preparing an article.
Is this something you might consider?
Best Regards,
Section editor
Cardiology Editorial Committee
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
ISSN: 2375-1924
NLM (PubMed): 101668511
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