[AISWorld] concerns about WSKS - Lytras' e-mails

[Kathrin Gruger]

Dear all,

Apologies for this broadcast e-mail, but I have to respond as I have been
personally attacked by Miltiadis' e-mails.

Dear Miltiadis,

I congratulate you for all your publications, which I want to believe that
you have achieved in more ethical ways that the ones that I have previously
raised and they are still unanswered.

I cannot understand why my identity (affiliation, country, what else I do
not know....) is the major issue and not the e-mail replies that I have
experienced through my paper submission. I believe anyone could had been in
my position (i.e. submitting a paper and getting such replies), unless if
replies to paper submissions are differentiated depending on the identity of
the person.

I am a real young person (even if I do not have a website)  that works and
wants to work hard to hopefully  enter the academic world. I have nothing to
prove and I do not work in the "police force"  to make scenarios and/or
search of evidence of anything. I have simply raised an issue which I have
confronted and the e-mails seemed standardized replies to paper submissions.


The issue I raised referred to the exploitation of the special issues of
academic journals for urging people to pay the registration fee at the 4rth
WSKS conference.

Even if review processes are applied as you mentioned in your previous
e-mails, my previous concerns are still valid and unanswered. Your e-mails
guaranteed someone who pays (one or two) conference registration fees an
(ISI) journal publication. If you  were later going to apply review
processes and quality standards, why this information was hidden and not
mentioned?. By hiding this information, the e-mails are further more
dishonest on what they promise.

I have been personally attacked, threaten and insulted by your e-mails; you
presented and made me feel like a criminal because I informed the community
for something I felt responsible of discussing with others.

I sincerely thank AISWORLD for giving me the opportunity to publicly raise
these issues as well as the several academics for sending me informative and
supporting e-mails to the above issue. I truly appreciate your feedback

Dear Miltiadis,

please delete my name and paper submission from your database. Thank you for
your kind consideration to accept my paper for the conference and your
publications, but  I do not wish to be part of the small group of academics
and the activities that you lead.

I am happy to share/discuss the issue with anyone and hopefully someone from
the scientific committee of the conference, who should probably have a
better insight into the e-mail responses to my paper submission.

yours sincerely

Kathrin (a real person without a website. yes, people without a website do
exist)
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