Letter to the Editor: Comment on Predatory Journals

Strategies to curb young researchers from predatory publishers

This letter addresses the current scenario ofpredatory publishers in the medical fieldand strategies to curb young researchers frompredatory publishing. Today, the increasingtrend and magnitude of predatory publishershave proposed a big challenge to youngresearchers in the medical field (1). Predatorypublishers are publishers which publish paperswith questionable peer review, charge enormouspub...

Comment to the Letter to the Editor: Subjective Symptoms Related to GSM Radiation from Mobile Phone Base Stations: a cross-sectional study In reply to the comments by Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi

Predatory Journals and Perished Articles; a Letter to Editor

In recent years, academic publishing has been faced with many destructive phenomena. “Predatory publishers” (or journals) are one challenge for scholarly publishing. This term was introduced to academic societies for the first time by Jeffrey Beall in 2010 (1). A predatory journal is a journal which publishes papers without peer review, or by an unfair review process and charging publication fe...

Environmental gamma radiation: a comment (Letter to the Editor)

Editor, I read the recent publication by Toossi et al. with a great interest (1). Toossi et al. concluded that “Average gonad and bone marrow doses for North Khorasan, Boshehr and Hormozgan provinces were less than the corresponding values for normal area (2).” There are some facts on this report to be concerned. I agree that the detected levels might be high in the mentioned area, but th...

From collodion bag to skid-mounted pervaporation unit: 100th anniversary

Let’s commemorate the 100th anniversary of “pervaporation” by committing ourselves to position it as it deserves. Dear editor, this Submission is a letter to the Editor, and thus, a abstract does not apply.Therefore, this section will be used as a space for my comment or suggestion because it is needed for the next step. When we submit a letter to the editor,...