Questions tagged [scams]
For questions related to academic scams such as invitations to predatory conferences and publications.
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Is ISIT conference on Linguistics and applied linguistics fake? [duplicate]
Is this conference fake? Or is it just not popular? https://isit.org.in/event/index.php?id=2385102
I am a PhD student. I just found this conference and applied for me to do something useful while ...
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What is the goal of this AI generated research solicitation?
As a research mathematician, I occasionally get unsolicited emails from local high school students asking if there are opportunities to work on a research project with me. I haven't ever decided to ...
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Got roped into (what I’m pretty sure is) a scam conference. What now?
I got roped into what might be a scam conference, called the “International Conference of the Humanities” (name slightly changed for anonymity’s sake) On the website they’ve published the previous ...
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What do I do if my thesis is stolen
I submitted my thesis in September. But because of nervousness I wasn’t confident with the way I wrote the result section, though I had researched extensively on it.
I was going through YouTube on ...
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How can I stop getting emails about unwanted registrations to some review websites and asking me to review for random journals? [closed]
I often get automated emails about unwanted registrations to some review websites and asking me to review for random, typically paywalled journals. Is there any to stop or reduce that kind of spam?
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Is conferenceindex.org a reputable source?
https://conferenceindex.org/
Is this a reputable website or a scam/predatory conference collection?
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Invitation to help writing and submitting papers -- how does this scam work?
I got several SPAM messages about conferences every week and know that most of them are scams, and can easily figure out what the scammers want (attend a weak conference, be an "estimated invited ...
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Why is Lishui University present in so many cities across the globe?
I'm searching for a postdoc and it seems that Lishui University recruits for its departments in Tokyo, Seoul, New York, Sidney etc. Typical job ad looks like this.
Not even biggest universities I know ...
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Are the conferences by Acavent legit or a scam? - subquestion to general question "How to detect if a conference is a scam" [duplicate]
I am thinking of registering at a conference organised at Said Business School by a company in Lithuania called Acavent.
The fee is 200 pounds which is a bit on the expensive side and the scientific ...
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I got an offer of admission to a post-graduate program in a totally different field. How to know if it is legit?
I (actually my cousin) just received an offer letter from SJSM-Anguilla to study MD. They are saying that they are accredited in the Carribbean, and after completing the program, the students can do ...
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Do journals avoid you as a reviewer if you are too fast?
A couple of years ago, when I started publishing in my field, I received several requests of review from 4/5 different journals in a row. Because I happened to have free time, I submitted those ...
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Invitation to a new conference: possible scam? [duplicate]
I am a researcher on physics and I was invited to a conference as a speaker at the 1st European Conference on Engineering & Technology ECETECH 2022. The full expenses (round trip flight tickets, ...
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Is comminit dot com a scam site?
I recently published an open-access paper. Shortly after, someone from the 'Communication Initiative' reached out, regarding a 'summary' of the paper which they would like to share, asking me if I'd ...
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WCAM speaker invitation: scam, and how does it work? [duplicate]
I usually receive many emails from scam journals asking me to publish my work there. And as I understand the scam is that they charge you a lot of money for that, and/or they steal your authors' ...
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How to Constructively Deal with Email Invitations to Scam Conferences or Journals?
Today I received the following email which was entitled the same as one of my publications:
Dear Dr. Ian,
I followed your research works which were of extremely high standard. I would like to invite ...
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