Lupine Publishers

Ever since being named as a Patient Representative in a medical study I have been getting ten to twenty emails a day from these people requesting articles/reviews/opinions on anything from cancer research to robotics, all addressed to spurious titles such as 'Dr. Researcher'.
They appear to only exist to extract money from the unwary.

I have been approached by Lupine staff twice, asking me to write an article for their "Current Trends in Computer Sciences and Applications". The first time, I complied, as they were requesting a short text for their first-ever magazine; the second time, I sent a longer text ("review article"). Both times I insisted I would happily write for them, but would not be paying them to publish me -- and yes, after some insistence, I was "waived" 100% of the processing fee.
So far, so good.
However, for my second article, it was:
- Not peer reviewed, but published just as I sent it. That's not acceptable practice for an academic publication!
- In order to fit their style, my manuscript was mangled; paragraphs were cut and joined with no regards for readability; mathematical expressions were rendered incomprehensible; related figures were separated.
I have contacted them repeatedly, pointing out the issues I found (and that leave my work in bad light!), but have been downright ignored.

I have received a regular stream of emails from this organisation, asking me in flattering but illiterate terms to write articles in journals which have no connection to my actual field of study. I notice that the latest one comes on behalf of something called the 'Journal of Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences'. This sounds remarkably similar to the 'Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences', a perfectly legitimate publication from the Springer stable. In commercial terms, this would be known as 'passing off'. I note with interest that the glowing five star reviews on this website have the same breathless style of what they used to call 'Babu English' as the emails that I have received, and clearly come from the publishers themselves.

This is an example of predatory publishing: little or no concern for quality, anything is published, no readership of the journals and no impact. For any serious academic, publishing here and not publishing at all are the same.

This is a predatory academic publisher that is known to publish nonsense papers for a 'small' fee of $1000

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To the scientific society with the combined effort of renowned scientists serving as editorial board members across the globe. Lupine online journals are committed to publish High quality researches, reviews in the form of articles in all the major domains of science.

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The editorial and peer review process is taken care of by team of experienced editorial members which includes Editorial manager, Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members who are well experienced in their specified fields. Editorial manager and editorial-in-chief are to assign manuscript to the editors. Editors are sought through invitations to organize and conduct the peer-review process of a submitted
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Check whether the research work presented in the manuscript meets the quality standards or not. It should fall under the scope of the journal. Editors may recommend the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript by conducting peer review process or double peer review process by themselves, based on their own knowledge and expertise, or by taking assistance and advice from other experts of the same field.