Medicine

Recently, we received a review report from PubMedCentral for the indexing application of one of our journals. Reviewers pointed out several shortcomings of particular articles below:

1. Discussions that did not thoroughly address limitations, and conclusions that were over-stated and/or not supported by the results.

2. Methods that were not described clearly and in sufficient detail to enable reproducibility.

We have received in the past several bribe attempts from authors from an Asian country trying to publish articles in our journal, which have always arrived by email. However, the editor-in-chief of our journal recently received a WhatsApp message on his personal phone number from an author of that same Asian country. The same message was also sent by email to the official email address of the journal and to the personal e-mail address of the editor-in-chief.