They are still at it – I received solicitation from this company for submission to a journal entitled US-China Education Review, based on a presentation I did at a regional psychology conference. The study I presented, by the way, had nothing to do with US-China education and little to do with education overall (besides the study was conducted on college students with varying levels of psychological difficulties). I assume the publishers either obtained a list of presenters’ emails from the conference program, or did a search with key words such as “college students.”
While it looked very fishy to me, what I worry is that student presenters at such conferences will be confused and flattered enough by such email solicitations to submit papers to these predatory journals. Especially considering such statements in the spam email as “We have read your paper . . . . We are very interested in your research.” I have seen other solicitations go further and say “we are very impressed by your excellent research” or something along those lines. It’s obviously meant to prey on unsuspecting students and/or inexperienced faculty and researchers.
