Comment on Beware of Spam Email With Offers to Promote Your Research by Mark Samuels

Research Media Inc and its International Innovation is also targeting Canadian researchers. As a researcher I am currently considering whether it is worth the money. I don’t automatically think not, there is some potential value to the glossy magazine approach. At any rate this is not an obvious scam, it does seem to be what it says it is. They have published interviews with senior Canadian science administrators which appear to be legit, although those were free. So they must support themselves through the page charges from researchers. There is some amount of marketing in Science, especially as soon as one goes beyond traditional peer-reviewed funding sources.