I got spammed again by SciencePG (“Science Publishing Group”).

One of many (usually Chinese or Indian) fake publishers, that will publish anything as long as you pay their fees. But, unfortunately, once you published a few papers, you inevitably land on their spam list: they scrape the websites of good journals for email adresses, and you do want your contact email address on your papers.

However, this one is particularly hilarious: They have a spelling error right at the top of their home page!

SciencePG spelling

Fail.

Speaking of fake publishers. Here is another fun example:

Kim Kardashian, Satoshi Nakamoto, Tomas Pluskal
Wanion: Refinement of RPCs.
Drug Des Int Prop Int J 1(3)- 2018. DDIPIJ.MS.ID.000112.

Yes, that is a paper in the “Drug Designing & Intellectual Properties” International (Fake) Journal. And the content is a typical SciGen generated paper that throws around random computer buzzword and makes absolutely no sense. Not even the abstract. The references are also just made up. And so are the first two authors, VIP Kim Kardashian and missing Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto…

In the PDF version, the first headline is “Introductiom”, with “m”…

So Lupine Publishers is another predatory publisher, that does not peer review, nor check if the article is on topic for the journal.

Via Retraction Watch

Conclusion: just because it was published somewhere does not mean this is real, or correct, or peer reviewed…