Science Publishing Group (website, also noticed by Dr Beall’s excellent site) is targeting “Dear [AUTHOR LIST]” directly lifted off publications with spam inviting the entire group to propose a special issue and be the lead guest editor. Which of them? 🙂
So we listed their sending IPs (disposable), their sending domains (likewise), and sciencepub123.com, sciencepublishinggroup.com, spublishinggroup.net.
Is Science Publishing Group reputable? If I send them a page fee, will they publish my paper?
They are spammers, which in our opinion is sufficient to make anyone disreputable.
They will probably publish anything if you pay the fee, including if you sent them a copy of http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf claiming it as your own.
As of this writing, we list 58 domain names, most of them throwaway, as ‘[SCIENCEPG] something’. There are 42 IP address listings, four of them escalations of /24, for the same.
See also http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2012/12/13/nice-try-science-publishing-group/ and http://www.sabhlokcity.com/2014/11/more-on-the-science-publishing-group-racket-but-there-are-now-thousands-of-others-making-easy-money/
Another name they use is SciencePC and probably AASCIT.
They currently send from Gmail thus:
From: “J. SS”
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:24:28 +0800
Message-ID:
Subject: Dear …; Invite You to Become the Lead Guest Editor
of Your Proposed Special Issue
We are sincerely inviting scholars to propose special issues on hot and
emerging topics within the scope of [AJIST]
Initate Your Own Special Issue
After reading your article … published in … intensively, we think
that more in-depth researches can be conducted around this topic.
Therefore, we are privileged to invite you to launch a special issue on a
topic of your choice.