Email from the Editorial Office of Bentham Science Publishers [homepage/wikipedia/RationalWiki]
info@bentham-open-editorial.com
xv May 2018
Dr. G.W. Grimm
Department of Palaeontology
University of ViennaAustria
Austria
[email alongside adress header, really professional; although at that topographic point is no G.W. Grimm anymore inwards Vienna (or whatsoever other university)]
Dear Dr. G.W. Grimm
Bentham Science Publishers (BSP) is an established international publisher of over 150 subscription as well as opened upwardly access journals roofing varied disciplines of science, technology, medicine as well as social sciences. H5N1 issue [an euphemism for few or none?] of journals published past times Bentham direct hold respectable [an euphemism for low; or non-existent, e.g. for their most expensive journal] comport upon factors as well as are indexed inwards diverse indexing agencies similar Scopus [a paywalled service by RELX' Elsevier], Chemical Abstracts [paywalled, too], Engineering Index [another Elsevier cash-cow, directly Ei Compendex] as well as many others [since all the mentioned indices are paywalled, I can't verify or essay that claim; I would last mildly surprised to detect a Bentham Open mag there, but you lot never know]. Please see our website [odd, at that topographic point was no link] for to a greater extent than information. [BSP has also been a fellowship coming later on Beall's List of Predatory Publishers.]
Peer review is the foundation of scientific enquiry [I agree, but probable non the way Bentham does it, or most other publishers; prove me incorrect past times making your peer review procedure transparent], as well as Bentham is committed to supporting as well as recognizing the reviewers who dedicate their fourth dimension as well as efforts to the peer review procedure [Hört, hört – apologise the German linguistic communication expression, but at that topographic point is zilch else inwards my vocabulary that fits better]. Bentham Science realizes that peer review requires pregnant investment of fourth dimension on the business office of participants as well as inwards recognition of this, Bentham Science (BSP) has initiated its ain reviewer recognition portal ["reviewer recognition portal"? To quote Nelson Muntz: Ha Ha!]. The BSP Reviewer Recognition portal [still laughing] provides participating reviewers alongside a personalized profile page wherein their mag peer review history is documented. This allows reviewers to drib dead on a tape of their activeness as well as have due credit for their efforts [now we're speaking]. The profile keeps rails of the issue of articles reviewed inwards a mag inwards the in conclusion three years [oh, ... great]. Each completed review is rewarded alongside review certificates. [In main school, I got stars ...] The BSP Reviewer Portal volition allow reviewers to collect their review certificates [why non existent bucks?] as well as avail next the discounts for BSP services.
• Free eBook of their Choice on completion of 2 reviews
[Of my Choice, let's meet ... thanks, but non a deal. By the way, direct hold majuscule substantives instruct fashion, Trumpelchen does it, too, inwards his (shi)tweets]
• 50% Fee Waiver on Quick Track rates on completion of three reviews
[Also didn't know what a "Quick Track rate" is? Submit, pay 'Quick Track', review (if you lot desire to belief) + decision, revise + acceptance, let on – all inwards one calendar week each.]
• 40% discount on Open Access Plus rates on completion of four reviews
[Finally something that makes sense; give&take is non a bad thought for rewarding reviewers; for instance, to drib dead on your PeerJ membership active (you pay 1 time 399–499 US$, as well as tin lav let on 1, 2 or five papers per twelvemonth for a life time), you lot direct hold to contribute 1 time a twelvemonth every bit reviewer, comment on a published paper, or participate inwards the Q&A forum; when you lot don't your membership gets frozen, as well as defrost costs 99$. Bentham Open charges you lot 715–1205 $ per paper, oddly, review articles are to a greater extent than expensive than enquiry ones]
We would similar to invite you lot to last a fellow member of our Reviewer Panel for Bentham journals relevant to your plain of expertise (a listing of journals that may last of your involvement is given below [can't detect it, or exercise you lot hateful the listed medical journals?]). Please position the mag most relevant to your plain [none] of expertise from the next list:
Mini-Reviews inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Anti-Cancer Agents inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-allergy Agents inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Central Nervous System Agents inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Current Topics inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Medicinal Chemistry
[dear Sir, would you lot hear reading the address you lot used: Dr. G.W. Grimm, Department of Palaeontology, ... or cheque out my GoogleScholar profile.]
For a consummate listing of Journals, delight see our website [Don't!]
Please, could you lot shipping us your confirmation alongside the cry of the Bentham journals for which you lot would last prepared to last a reviewer, along alongside your brief CV past times replying to this electronic mail for in conclusion conclusion past times our relevant Committee. [Oh, a Committee, alongside majuscule C. Surely composed of competent scientists who create upwardly one's hear who's worthy entering the "Review Panel"]
We appear frontward to hearing from you. [done inwards course of written report of this post, you're welcome]
Sincerely,
M. Alam
Director (Publications)
Bentham Science Publishers
[If you lot prefer non to have whatsoever farther emails from us, delight shipping an electronic mail to click here]
Dr. G.W. Grimm
Department of Palaeontology
University of ViennaAustria
Austria
[email alongside adress header, really professional; although at that topographic point is no G.W. Grimm anymore inwards Vienna (or whatsoever other university)]
Dear Dr. G.W. Grimm
Bentham Science Publishers (BSP) is an established international publisher of over 150 subscription as well as opened upwardly access journals roofing varied disciplines of science, technology, medicine as well as social sciences. H5N1 issue [an euphemism for few or none?] of journals published past times Bentham direct hold respectable [an euphemism for low; or non-existent, e.g. for their most expensive journal] comport upon factors as well as are indexed inwards diverse indexing agencies similar Scopus [a paywalled service by RELX' Elsevier], Chemical Abstracts [paywalled, too], Engineering Index [another Elsevier cash-cow, directly Ei Compendex] as well as many others [since all the mentioned indices are paywalled, I can't verify or essay that claim; I would last mildly surprised to detect a Bentham Open mag there, but you lot never know]. Please see our website [odd, at that topographic point was no link] for to a greater extent than information. [BSP has also been a fellowship coming later on Beall's List of Predatory Publishers.]
Peer review is the foundation of scientific enquiry [I agree, but probable non the way Bentham does it, or most other publishers; prove me incorrect past times making your peer review procedure transparent], as well as Bentham is committed to supporting as well as recognizing the reviewers who dedicate their fourth dimension as well as efforts to the peer review procedure [Hört, hört – apologise the German linguistic communication expression, but at that topographic point is zilch else inwards my vocabulary that fits better]. Bentham Science realizes that peer review requires pregnant investment of fourth dimension on the business office of participants as well as inwards recognition of this, Bentham Science (BSP) has initiated its ain reviewer recognition portal ["reviewer recognition portal"? To quote Nelson Muntz: Ha Ha!]. The BSP Reviewer Recognition portal [still laughing] provides participating reviewers alongside a personalized profile page wherein their mag peer review history is documented. This allows reviewers to drib dead on a tape of their activeness as well as have due credit for their efforts [now we're speaking]. The profile keeps rails of the issue of articles reviewed inwards a mag inwards the in conclusion three years [oh, ... great]. Each completed review is rewarded alongside review certificates. [In main school, I got stars ...] The BSP Reviewer Portal volition allow reviewers to collect their review certificates [why non existent bucks?] as well as avail next the discounts for BSP services.
• Free eBook of their Choice on completion of 2 reviews
[Of my Choice, let's meet ... thanks, but non a deal. By the way, direct hold majuscule substantives instruct fashion, Trumpelchen does it, too, inwards his (shi)tweets]
• 50% Fee Waiver on Quick Track rates on completion of three reviews
[Also didn't know what a "Quick Track rate" is? Submit, pay 'Quick Track', review (if you lot desire to belief) + decision, revise + acceptance, let on – all inwards one calendar week each.]
• 40% discount on Open Access Plus rates on completion of four reviews
[Finally something that makes sense; give&take is non a bad thought for rewarding reviewers; for instance, to drib dead on your PeerJ membership active (you pay 1 time 399–499 US$, as well as tin lav let on 1, 2 or five papers per twelvemonth for a life time), you lot direct hold to contribute 1 time a twelvemonth every bit reviewer, comment on a published paper, or participate inwards the Q&A forum; when you lot don't your membership gets frozen, as well as defrost costs 99$. Bentham Open charges you lot 715–1205 $ per paper, oddly, review articles are to a greater extent than expensive than enquiry ones]
We would similar to invite you lot to last a fellow member of our Reviewer Panel for Bentham journals relevant to your plain of expertise (a listing of journals that may last of your involvement is given below [can't detect it, or exercise you lot hateful the listed medical journals?]). Please position the mag most relevant to your plain [none] of expertise from the next list:
Mini-Reviews inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Anti-Cancer Agents inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-allergy Agents inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Central Nervous System Agents inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Current Topics inwards Medicinal Chemistry
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Medicinal Chemistry
[dear Sir, would you lot hear reading the address you lot used: Dr. G.W. Grimm, Department of Palaeontology, ... or cheque out my GoogleScholar profile.]
For a consummate listing of Journals, delight see our website [Don't!]
Please, could you lot shipping us your confirmation alongside the cry of the Bentham journals for which you lot would last prepared to last a reviewer, along alongside your brief CV past times replying to this electronic mail for in conclusion conclusion past times our relevant Committee. [Oh, a Committee, alongside majuscule C. Surely composed of competent scientists who create upwardly one's hear who's worthy entering the "Review Panel"]
We appear frontward to hearing from you. [done inwards course of written report of this post, you're welcome]
Sincerely,
M. Alam
Director (Publications)
Bentham Science Publishers
[If you lot prefer non to have whatsoever farther emails from us, delight shipping an electronic mail to click here]
Coming dorsum to my introductory question: why did I (my GoogleScholar profile) instruct this invitation? Only 1 reason: they ask simply some names to uphold the claim of proper peer review. Or every bit RationalWiki (quite a fun wiki, strikes me every bit an response to Conservapedia – the War of the Wikis is on) puts it: 'Bentham Science Publishers straddles the fine trouble betwixt "open access mag publisher" as well as "vanity press scam.'
And, on the run, perchance gaining a client who's stupid, desperate or mischievous plenty to pay 450+ $ for the adjacent pseudo-reviewed opened upwardly access newspaper rather than to shipping the enquiry to a proper (open access, it pays of dissemination-wise, no incertitude most it) journal.
Medicinal sciences is a plain alongside a rather high per centum of dubious as well as fraudulent papers because of the coin inwards it. We are all humans. If Gazprom – they 1 time visited my hence institute inwards Stockholm – would direct hold paid me a 1 thou one thousand inwards enquiry coin to write some green-washing newspaper that has zilch to exercise alongside my enquiry as well as expertise as well as otherwise allow me exercise whatever I want, I'd direct hold run simply about alongside a Putin T-shirt. Money alone stinks, when you lot lav it. And cheers to peer review confidentiality it's difficult to meet what was really reviewed as well as what was waved through. So, it's picayune surprising that 'straddlers' similar BSP focus on medicinal research.
However, adjacent time, honey Director (Publications) M. Alam, instruct at to the lowest degree your listing right.
And to all honest authors: Don't let on alongside Bentham Science Publishers as well as pay them a cent. They may non last a predatory publisher, but are evidently also non a sincere one.
PS I don't recommend paying 3000$ for 'gold opened upwardly access' inwards a mag of an established, sincere publishers similar Springer-Nature (an example) or RELX' Elsevier (example), either; at that topographic point are alternatives that are cost- and science-efficient (e.g. PeerJ). But sometimes, one is forced. Your grant means expects it, as well as branding is (unfortunately) of import inwards science, too.
Links
Another Don Quixote gone: Beall's List of Predatory Journals with links to mirrors of the in conclusion version of the directly defunct Beall's List as well as why it is offline.
The growing Grey Zone of scientific publishing most an invitation I got from InTech Open – some other BSP operating inwards the twilight betwixt proper as well as predatory publishing.
Related posts tin lav last found (and hereafter ones volition last flagged as) Beall's Legacy as well as #FightTheFog.
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