Submissions sought for special issue of International Journal of Clinical Medicine (IJCM) on "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"

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Tom Kindlon

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Just in case this is of interest to anyone. Not a journal I'm familiar with from memory so may not have much status.

Special Issue on
"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"
ISSN Online: 2158-2882

Dear Tom Kindlon,

Your kind attention to the special issue "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" http://www.scirp.org/journal/htmlOf...128_fangyu_129552&utm_content=1627_lishor.com on International Journal of Clinical Medicine (IJCM).

If you have the intention of submitting a paper to this special issue, please feel free to send the electronic version to us through Online Submission System.
You can also submit your paper via E-mail: papersubmission.fy@gmail.com. Please rename the email subject as "IJCM_CFS - 210 - your paper title ".

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Truly yours,
Ms. Jane GAO
Editorial Assistant
IJCM Editorial Office
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Tom Kindlon said:
Not a journal I'm familiar with from memory so may not have much status.
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It's a part of Scientific Research Publishing (SCRIP):
The company has been accused of being a predatory open access publisher[3] and of using email spam to solicit papers for submission.[1] In 2014 there was a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, with the outgoing Editor-in-Chief saying of the publisher "For them it was only about making money. We were simply their 'front'."[4]
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Wikipedia has a longer discussion of their misdeeds :-P
 
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am i the only crackpot who wishes that those who get conspicuously outraged over those two problems that have snappy epithets [and get press and academic interest] -- namely "predatory journals" and "fake news" -- would lend a !@#!$ hand over such things as pace and the lancet, bristol and qmul and kcl failing to act like universities, the cowardice of plos one, and smc literally-1930s-style propaganda?

i GET that pj and fn are a problem. i KNOW they are a problem because i cannot think of many things that are more predatory and fake than those institutions' actions re m.e. WE are the prey. not elsevier!

end of rant! brain not working well but i hope you get the idea! carry on!
 
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Lidia said:
@Valentijn is there a list of journals which can’t be referenced on Wikipedia? I tried to include a citation to a paper in Frontiers in Pediatrics (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2017.00121/full) which was immediately reverted with a message saying this citation should not be on Wikipedia??? It is a peer-reviewed journal which meets WP:MEDRS, so I am wondering what the issue is.
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There are other rules, about not making entries based on the results of single studies (reviews, metanalyses and books are to be preferred) - could you have run into one of those?
 
@Woolie no I don’t think so, as it’s an extensive review document. The message I received specifically said there was an issue with the Frontier journal, but I can’t imagine why as it’s legit???
 
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@Woolie no I don’t think so, as it’s an extensive review document. The message I received specifically said there was an issue with the Frontier journal, but I can’t imagine why as it’s legit???
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Oh sorry, didn't realise it was a review. I'm surprised too. Frontiers publishes a range of articles (some great, some pretty bad), and is certainly not an outlet celebrated for its exceptional quality, but I can't see any reason why it should be subject to a blanket WP ban.
 
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Oh sorry, didn't realise it was a review. I'm surprised too. Frontiers publishes a range of articles (some great, some pretty bad), and is certainly not an outlet celebrated for its exceptional quality, but I can't see any reason why it should be subject to a blanket WP ban.
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Frontiers published the international paediatric primer - given the issues with wiki this may explain a lot
 
You know we could start our own journal, a legitimate one, we could call it the "Journal of ME/CFS Research" or something catchier.

It should be open access and feature legitimate research papers that are submitted and vetted by a team of patients and ME/CFS medical experts before publication. I'm guessing both groups could be assembled.
 
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