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Comment on It’s Time to Reexamine the Tradition of the “Call for Papers” by Sylvain Bernès

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I’m regularly flooded with spam related to “calls for paper(s)”, and received last year roughly 1000 such “invitations” (ca. 3 each day). This is really disappointing, because ALL invitations were completely ridiculous: topics were very very far from my field, my name is almost systematically misspelled, and, in the case of Bentham, the mails indicate an affiliation I left 8 years ago… A new strategy which appeared recently is to post in the same mail the call for papers AND the invitation to join the editorial board AND the invitation to guest edit a special issue.
Good old days have gone. Before (I mean 20 years ago), it was a great pleasure to met John Gladysz, editor for Chemical Reviews, and to comment personally with him what was planned for future issues of the journal (regardless of who was eventually invited to submit a review). Now, all is bullsh…


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