I have been avoiding this sort of blogging for some years now, but then...
The body of an unsolicited email I received now reads:
This trend of copy/paste invitation of relevance from 'research journals' with a 'business model' is a major hindrance in research publishing and is a contributing factor that galvanizes the myopic equation "Open Access = BAD" even among well-meaning academics in editorial boards.
The body of an unsolicited email I received now reads:
Dear (My name),The concerned paper is about controlling temperatures and overheating of electronics by using metal porous media of two different length scales (small and large pores mixed together). Tempted to say the email invitation reiterates what I have been suspecting (typecasting) for long about 'management' subjects.
This is from the Editorial Board Office of Journal of Management Science and Practice (MSP).
We recently read your paper titled “Thermal management using the bi-disperse porous medium approach ”
Considering your research in related areas, we cordially invite you to extend this paper and publish a new research in our journal.
You are welcomed to submit your papers online at (link)
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Best regards,
Olivia
Editorial Assistant
This trend of copy/paste invitation of relevance from 'research journals' with a 'business model' is a major hindrance in research publishing and is a contributing factor that galvanizes the myopic equation "Open Access = BAD" even among well-meaning academics in editorial boards.
1 Comments:
there may be many problems with 'management subjects' as you choose to refer to them, but this is not one of them. nobody in management academia takes journals like this seriously, and i am sure more than a few exist in all fields. i am a 'management' academic and can tell you that respectable journals do not solicit articles the way this one did
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