The paper publishing industry is a hodgepodge. If you don't know some knowledge about paper publishing, you may encounter a liar intermediary. At present, this piece of supervision can not be said to be absent, but it is still relatively weak compared with other industries, and because all transactions are online, many of them are privately transferred, which also invisibly increases the cost of rights protection.

Forget the quarterbacks who were carefully identified with their eyes wide open on Monday morning. People were cheated of their money. It's no use saying this. At most, you can recommend some anti-fraud knowledge to the author for his next attention. What should the author do if he has been cheated, the liar refuses to refund the deposit, the author's paper can't be published, or he is sent to a junk periodical or a fake periodical?

First of all, I still have to think about it. Do you want to defend your rights? If the amount is relatively large, such as sending a core or SCI, 1 10,000 to 20,000 or even higher, then you can consider safeguarding rights, saving evidence, calling the police, or doing business, and submitting all the information you know about scammers.

If you don't want to defend your rights, or you can't swallow this tone if you can't get your money back, write down the experience of being cheated and distribute it everywhere, so that the name of the liar and the process of being cheated are clearly written. In this way, when someone asks this liar to publish a paper in the future, he may see it when searching, which will cut off the possibility of cheating again. If he wants to change his name and vest, it will also increase his cost and disgust him. It can also prevent more people from getting hurt.

All of the above are intermediaries who encounter swindlers, but there is another situation, that is, the formal agent encountered is purely the author's unwillingness to send it and wants to refund the deposit. This will be a bit difficult because the deposit is not a deposit. After receiving the manuscript, the agent will give it to the editor of the journal to help you revise it, and the employment notice will be issued soon. If the author says I won't publish it, then he will transfer to other journals to contribute, the author is.

Many years ago, when Tao Tao's paper was put into operation, this happened many times. At first, we didn't accept a deposit, but later several authors who used us to revise their papers for free were forced to accept a symbolic deposit, and this situation gradually improved.