The title to the email said: “Your Manuscript in: Phys Rev Lett, 2003; 90(15):157904” so I open it. It started by congratulating me on the publication of paper and saying how much it impressed the author of the email. But my happy little chemical glow was quickly snuffed out by the realization that the whole email was a strange form of academic spam. The author of this email claims to be the editor of a medical science journal and the content of the email was basically to advertise this journal. Now I may be a doctor, but I’m not THAT kind of doctor: it looks like they mined academic journals in hopes of getting submissions. Strange tactic for a journal. They can’t be doing it for the submission fee ($65), can they? And if I was in the medical field maybe I wouldn’t even realize it was spam. But surely my article on “Bell Inequalities with Communication” isn’t even remotely appropriate for this journal.
The final disturbing part of the email was where it claimed that certain select authors (like, potentially, myself) who review papers for the journal would have priority publishing with the journal. Can anyone think of a reason why this is reasonable?
O brave new quantum world!
If I were you [and had some money to burn] I would indeed submit a paper: “Abnormal Characteristics of Entanglement as Observed in Magnetic Resonance Imaging” for example.
I think they, like most spammers, just want to have poeple’s contact info.