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I keep receiving e-mails from a "Dr. A Lesnevskyi M.D.

" from a so-called Internal Medicine Review


journal. The journal has now several issues dating back March 2016. I checked the doi (digital object
identifier) of some articles and most of them are not registered in Crossref. However, I was really
surprised that a couple of articles were in Crossref. It is written in the website that they are indexed in
Pubmed (National Library of Medicine (PubMed) ID: 101691967), but I was not able to find a single
article there. Their ISSN numbers are fake, I was not able to find them in the ISSN portal A two story
building at 712 H St NE Washington DC A little piece of advice if you are thinking in sending a polite reply
that you are not interested: It is not a good idea to reply to any predatory publisher, even if it is to
decline their offer or ask them to stop emailing you. They can then sell your email contact as a verified
address to other publishers. Always block or mark as junk.

I wonder if all these "papers" published there are actual studies or fabricated texts only to embellish the
website and attract more researchers willing to pay for a publication, with fees ranging from US$ 799 to
US$ 2,999. For me this is clearly a predatory, fraudulent, fake journal.

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