Predatory publishing is a relatively new and rapidly growing menace in scientific communication. The immoral cybercriminals are abusing the open-access model by defeating the editorial and peer-review process, which is often lacking or negligible 1. Invitation through the spam emails directly to the authors is a growing trend used by the predatory journals to submit manuscripts, join editorial boards, or write what pretended to be peer review report 2. Though this tactic has helped these journals to hunt their victims, there is no detailed analysis of these spam emails. The report aims to analyze these emails.
We collected those predatory emails received by the first author during 507 days (from April 4, 2018, to September 5, 2019). He is a 34-year-old with 72 publications, 66 (83.3%) of them were in the fields of general, cardiothoracic, and vascular surgeries. The inclusion criteria incorporated only those emails that …

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