Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Bentham Science

Although the Bentham Science website promises "authentic peer review," Wikipedia (12/21/16) notes that
In 2009, the Bentham Open Science journal The Open Chemical Physics Journal published a study contending dust from the World Trade Center attacks contained "active nanothermite". Following publication, the journal's editor-in-chief Marie-Paule Pileni resigned stating, "They have printed the article without my authorization… I have written to Bentham, that I withdraw myself from all activities with them." ... In 2013, The Open Bioactive Compounds Journal was one of the journals that accepted an obviously bogus paper submitted as part of the Who's Afraid of Peer Review? sting. It has since been discontinued.
I received the following request to be a peer-reviewer of an article far outside my expertise:
From: Editorial Office [editorial@benthamscience-reviews.com]
Sent: Feb. 21, 2018, 12:50 PM
Dr. DH Kaye, Penn State Univ, Sch Law, University Pk PA 16803 USA.
In view of your expertise in the field, your name has been recommended as a potential reviewer for the manuscript entitled “Probabilistic Reasoning and Risk-Constrained Dynamic Spectrum Access” that has been submitted for publication in Recent Advances in Communications and Networking Technology. Please review the abstract if it comes in your field of expertise and provide us your willingness to review the complete manuscript. I hope that you will be able to help us. ... I would appreciate if you could kindly respond to this message at your earliest. Since we are endeavoring to provide an efficient review process for our authors, we would request that send your comments and recommendations back to us as soon as possible. Thank you for your consideration.
Regards,
Noushaba Azhar
Editorial Manager
Email: editorial@benthamscience.org
Demonstrating the journal's lack of knowledge about its referees, the same email, addressed to Dr. Kaye instead of Dr. DH Kaye, came to another address an hour earlier.

Current Drug Research Review asked me to be an executive guest editor. Again, no expertise. The email omits the identity and locale of the publisher, Bentham. A proxy hides the domain owner, but the email came from a server in Pakistan. As of 2019, the journal is indexed in Medline, which identifies it as located in the UAE.

An email from the Open Journal of Probability and Statistics (reproduced below) boasts of seven successful years of publication. No volume for 2015 is online. 2014 was a better year -- there was a grand total of one article.

A webpage (12/21/16) cites endorsements from six Nobel Laureates. Three are still alive. One, Ferid Murad, also is the president of allegedly "bogus" conferences connected to Bentham. For more critical comments, see
https://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/01/bentham-publisher-so-wrong-in-some-many.html;
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17288-crap-paper-accepted-by-journal/;
https://scimedskeptic.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/money-has-corrupted-science-including-some-individual-scientists/

Email
General
  • From: Bentham Articles Alert [alert@benthamarticlealerts.com]
    Date: 26 August 2019 10:15 PM
    Subject: Highly Cited Articles !!
    Dear Dr Kaye,
    You will be pleased to know that you have access to high quality scientific content from Bentham Science, at your institution and you can now freely access this. [← I could not access the open access journals until now?] Below is a small selection of highly cited Bentham articles, across several major disciplines. ...
  • Same message received on 10/25/19 (twice), 12/24/19 (twice), 2/22/20, 4/26/20 (twice), 5/26/20 (twice)
  • From: Bentham Articles Alert [alert@benthamarticlealerts.com]
    Date: Mon, May 18 at 5:01 PM
    Subject: Articles Alert related to Corona Virus !
    Become Section Editor | Become Ambassador
    For Free trials and subscription information, [ Contact Us ]
    Disclaimer: You're receiving this alert because of your work in these areas [← which is nonexistent]. ...
    Dear Dr. Kaye,
    The current COVID-19 crisis has stirred an interest among researchers about coronaviruses. We have compiled a list of recent articles in our journals covering coronaviruses. We hope that this content is informative to readers.
    Note: All articles submitted to our new Coronaviruses journal will be processed on a free, quick track basis, to ensure timely review and publication of research. We are also lowering the Open Access Plus fees, for the article contributions to the journal to USD 800, to ease the financial burden on authors and funding institutions. [← How thoughtful.] ...

Bentham eBook

  • From: Bentham e-Books [editorial@ebookseries-biologicalscience.net]
    Sent: Monday, July 17, 2023 7:30 AM
    Subject: Call for Editors-Books/Books' Series
    Dr. D. Kaye
    School of Law and Graduate Faculty
    Pennsylvania 16803
    UNITED STATES
    Dear Dr. Kaye,
    Bentham Science is an international publisher of quality journals and books covering varied disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences. A number of notable journals published by us have impact factor rankings and many of our books are indexed in various indexing agencies like Scopus and Chemical Abstracts. Please visit our website for more information.
    Considering your published article entitled “Beyond uniqueness: The birthday paradox, source attribution and individualization in forensic science testimony”, we would like to invite you to author or edit a Book/Book Series with us, in your scholarly area of expertise.
    If you are interested then please send us a one-page abstract along with your C.V. and list of international publications for consideration. Please also send us a note stating your contributing role (editor or author) and justifying the importance of the contents to the intended readership.
    Some salient features of our Book publishing program are summarized below: ...
    Language Editing and Figure Improvement: Editor(s) may avail our paid language editing and figure improvement facilities. For details please contact via email.
    Peer-review: All proposals and manuscripts are subjected to a neutral peer-review prior to acceptance and any recommended changes or revisions will need to be addressed.
    Open Access / Limited Open Access: Editor(s) / author(s) may also have the Book series or any of its volumes or even individual chapters published as ‘open access’.
    Submission: The complete Book/Chapter(s) must be provided in MS Word or Tex/Latex format, and images/diagrams in separate files also. Please follow Author Guidelines hen preparing your Book/Chapter(s)
    If you have any further questions, please contact us by replying to this email.
    With kind regards,
    Sincerely,
    Nuzhat Gul
    Sr. Editorial Manager
  • From: Bentham e-Books [editorial@ebook-materialscience.net]
    Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2021 2:18 AM
    Subject: Submit a Book in the field of "Social Science"
    Dear Dr. Kaye,
    Bentham Science is an established international publisher of quality print & online journals and books covering varied disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences. A number of notable journals published by Bentham have impact factor rankings and many Bentham books are indexed in various indexing agencies like Scopus and Chemical Abstracts. Please visit our website for more information [1]. Considering your important contributions in the field of “Social Science” we would like to invite you to submit your proposal for a Book or Book Series in your scholarly area of expertise as an editor.
    If you are interested in publishing your book with Bentham Books, please send us a one-page abstract along with your C.V. and list of international publications and a note stating your contributing role and justifying the importance of the contents to the intended readership.
    Each Book manuscript should be submitted in MS word format within a mutually agreeable submission date. The proposal would be subject to peer- review by a neutral panel of international experts and subsequently by an advisory board of Bentham Science to assess its scientific merit, timeliness and potential readership, prior to approval. Your proposed manuscript should also specify the number of chapters. After acceptance of your proposal, it will be displayed on the website along with your brief CV and your photograph for 3 Years. Please visit the Author Guidelines for further instructions about manuscript preparation.
    Bentham Books also offer authors and editors, who have access to approved funding, an Open Access [2] publishing option.
    If you have any further questions, please contact us by replying to this email.
    With kind regards,
    Sincerely,
    N. Azher
    Editorial Manager
    Bentham Books
    [1] Book Royalty: Editors/authors of books will receive a royalty of 12.5% on sales arising out of complete book sales. These royalties exclude payments arising out of all individual chapter sales, packaged Book sales (by the Publisher and any third-party partners) and sales of sections of the Book. Print on Demand: Print versions of the electronic publications will be available if editors/authors can arrange sponsors to bear the costs.
    [2] Open Access Book/Limited Open Access: offers author fee based publication options that are FREELY downloadable and viewable to potentially millions of readers worldwide.
  • From: e-Book [editorial@ebk-02.org]
    Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:01 AM
    Subject: e-Book Invitation
    Dear Prof. Kaye,
    Bentham Science is an established international publisher of quality print and online journals and books covering varied disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences. ... Considering your important contributions in your field [whatever it might be], we would like to invite you to submit a proposal for an eBook, an eBook series or an eLecture in your area of expertise as an author or editor. eBooks are a relatively recent development ... . In case you are interested to contribute ... , could you please send us a one page abstract along with your c.v. and list of international publications ... . Kindly also send us a paragraph justifying the importance of the field and why it is likely to be of interest to a large number of readers. ...
    Sincerely,
    Dr. M. Alam
    Director of Publications, Bentham eBooks

Current Drug Abuse Reviews (CDAR) (renamed Current Drug Research Reviews)

  • 3/1/16: The journal Current Drug Abuse Reviews (CDAR) aims to publish the highest quality reviews (mini- and full-length), meta-analyses and drug clinical trial studies on all latest advances on alcohol and drug abuse and addiction. The journal further comprises an agenda listing relevant meetings and conferences that will take place in near future, and advertisements. ... It is a pleasure to invite you to submit a proposal for such a theme issue in a frontier area of your choice ... to thematicissue@benthamscience.org Your proposal should contain your CV ... Alternatively, you may want to consider submitting a review article to the journal. Guest Editors of thematic issues will be entitled to an honorarium of US$400 ...
  • 7/19/16, 1/27/17: Same email from Joris C. Vester, Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Vester is an associate professor of pharmacology in the Netherlands.
  • 11/8/17: Back to a solicitation for CDAR from "M. Alam" [invitations@scholarlystm.com], who seems to have lost his doctor degree. Now he writes that "the following discount offers may be availed by prospective contributors: 30% discount on the single issue cost to authors on the purchase of issue(s) in which their article is published; 30% discount on Open Access Plus fee ... Multiple issue copies at discounted rates." The email was not even addressed to me, but rather to "Dr. F. Alonso, Departamento de Química Orgánic, University of Alicant, Alicant, Spain."
  • From: Current Drug Abuse Reviews [editorial@chromatography-journal02.com]
    Date: Tue 4/24/2018 7:37 AM
    Subject: Invitation for Advisory Board Membership of Current Drug Abuse Reviews
    Dear Dr. Kaye
    Current Drug Abuse Reviews is an international journal that publishes the highest quality reviews, meta-analyses and drug clinical trial studies on all latest advances on alcohol and drug abuse and addiction. The journal is in its 11th successful year of publication, and is indexed by several indexing media including MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Chemical Abstracts Service/SciFinder, ChemWeb, Google Scholar, EMCare, Genamics JournalSeek, MediaFinder®-Standard Periodical Directory, PubsHub, J-Gate, CNKI Scholar, Suweco CZ, TOC Premier, EBSCO and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
    Bentham Science is interested in appointing active Editorial Board Members on the Journal’s Board. If you are working in the field of the journal and are interested in becoming an Editorial Board Member then kindly send us your CV and a list of publications. If, however, the scope of the journal is not directly related to your field of interest than [sic] please feel free to recommend suitable colleagues for the Editorial Board membership of the journal and, if possible, send us their CV along with the list of publications. ... We look forward to receiving your positive response ...
    Best regards,
    M. Alam
    Director (Publications)
    Current Drug Abuse Reviews
  • From: Current Drug Research Reviews [editorial@currentdrugresearchreviews.net]
    Date: 10 July 2019 1:21 AM
    Subject: Executive Guest Editorship-Drug Research
    Dear Dr. Kaye,
    Current Drug Research Reviews (CDRR) is in the process of appointing Executive Guest Editors. This journal is indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Chemical Abstracts Service/SciFinder, ChemWeb, and other major indexing agencies ... . We would like to nominate you for the position of Executive Guest Editor of Current Drug Research Reviews. Executive Guest Editors are appointed for a period of three years and are expected to submit a proposal for the first thematic issue in a hot and emerging field within 3 months of their appointment. They are also expected to submit one thematic issue each subsequent year.
    The peer review of the articles may be arranged by the guest editor, provided that the list of referees for each article is pre-approved by us. The reviewers should have a respectable H-index and should be neutral experts. The guest editor would be expected to provide us the referee reports of each article. Publication of thematic issue would be facilitated by the use of our, state of the art, article processing system.
    The Executive Guest Editors will be entitled to the following benefits ...
    If this position is of interest to you and the field of the journal is relevant to your area of research, please let us know. In that case, please also send us your brief CV and a list of your recent publications.
    Proposals for a thematic issue, in an important field of current interest, should be sent via return email, outlining the title of the theme issue, significance of the selected theme along with the list of names and affiliations of contributing authors, titles of the articles as well as the date of submission of the complete issue. You may also appoint an Assistant Guest Editor to assist you in organizing the thematic issue.
    We look forward to hearing from you in this regard.
    Sincerely,
    M. Alam
    Director (Publications)

Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (NBE)

  • 9/27/16: Dr. D.H. Kaye, School of Law ... Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering is now in its fourth successful year ... It is a pleasure to invite you to submit a proposal for such a theme issue, in a frontier area of your choice ... Guest Editors of thematic issues will be entitled to: an honorarium of US$ 400 per thematic Issue containing a minimum of 100 printed pages and a free copy of the printed issue. ...
    Dr. Jinglong Wu & Dr. Kewei Chen
    Co-Editors
  • From: Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering [editorial@scholarlypublications.org
    Sent: Mar 21 at 3:43 PM
    Subject: Rapid publication of your articles in the journal of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
    Dear Dr. Kaye,
    Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (NBE) promotes the best interdisciplinary research in neuroscience and biomedical engineering. NBE welcomes original articles, research reviews, and book reviews in any domain of neural and biomedical engineering ranging in content from practical/clinical applications through experimental science, technological developments to quantitative and/or statistical methodology discussions.
    Guest Editors may organize, arrange peer-review and submit the complete thematic issue themselves or may wish to receive editorial support from the Publishers, from extending invitations to prominent people in the field, inviting submissions relevant to the theme, to managing of peer-reviewing process through referees with high h- index. Guest Editors will receive an honorarium of US$600 besides a free copy of the printed issue and free online subscription to any three selected Bentham journals from the (List), which also includes some of our high Impact journals. Bentham Science expects that the referees have a good h-index (preferably above 15). Guest editors are required to have the referees approved by the publisher prior to having the manuscripts reviewed. Final referee reports would also need to be submitted with the manuscripts.
    ... All submitted manuscripts are peer-reviewed prior to a possible decision on acceptance for publication.
    Proposals for a thematic issue in an important field of current interest should [outline] the title of the theme issue, significance of the selected theme along with the list of names and affiliations of contributing authors, titles of the articles as well as the date of submission of the complete issue.
    We look forward to receiving your interest in article or thematic issue publication.
    Sincerely,
    Profs. Kewei Chen & Jinglong Wu
    Co-Editors, Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (NBE)
    Dr. D.H. Kaye
    SPECIAL LIMITED TIME OFFER
    Free of Charge Open Access Plus Articles submitted between January 01st to 30th June 2018 will be published as Open Access. Open Access publishing provides greater accessibility to the article. To view some of the Open access articles in the journal, please click here
    Rapid Publication: Quick processing and publication of the submitted papers. The manuscript will be published online within 20 days of final acceptance.
    Discounted Offers: -30% discount on the single-issue cost to authors on the purchase of issue(s) in which their article is published. -Multiple issue copies at discounted rates.

The Open Statistics & Probability Journal

  • 11/28/16 4:27 AM
    Dear Dr. Kaye,
    It is my pleasure to invite you to submit research articles, reviews, letters and thematic issues to The Open Statistics & Probability Journal. This peer reviewed Open Access online journal publishes articles in all areas of statistics including biostatistics. ... Members of Bentham OPEN are entitled to discounts on the Standard Open Access charges; ... Any queries should be addressed to editorial@benthamopen.org. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
    With kind regards, Yours sincerely,
    Milan Stehlík
    Editor-in-Chief
    The Open Statistics & Probability Journal
    editorial@benthamopen.org
  • From: The Open Statistics & Probability Journal
    Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 1:15 AM [and again 5/18/17]
    Subject: Invitation for the Post of Editorial Board Membership (The Open Statistics & Probability Journal)
    Dear Dr. Kaye,
    The Open Statistics & Probability Journal is an Open Access online journal, which publishes research articles, reviews, letters and guest edited single topic issues in statistics and probability. All areas of statistics are covered including biostatistics. The journal is in its Seventh successful year of publication, and is indexed ... . In view of your important contributions in the field, we would like to propose your name for the membership of the Editorial Advisory Board ... . Please visit the journal’s website at http://benthamopen.com/TOSPJ/home/ for the journal‘s aims and scope. If you find these to be in line with your field of work and are interested in our proposal then please send us your updated C.V. together with your list of publications, h-index and citations for approval. ... We look forward to receiving your positive response at editorial@benthamopen.org. Please ignore this email, if you find it irrelevant. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.
    Sincerely,
    Mehwish Akhter
    Sr. Manager Publications
    The Open Statistics & Probability Journal, editorial@benthamopen.org
Updated 7/10/19

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