I just got this gem…
Dear Dr. Ruedin,
This is a Call for the Appointment of Editors, to the journal [JOURNAL NAME REMOVED]. This is a new journal focused on all areas of Social Sciences. The journal publishes original letters (short articles), research articles, full-length/mini-reviews and thematic issues based on mini-reviews and short articles dealing with various topics related to Social Sciences.
Considering your contributions in the field, and based on your published article entitled [ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY ME SOME 5 YEARS AGO] we feel that your field of interest is related to our journal, and that you would be a good candidate for this position. We are therefore requesting your permission to communicate with you further on this matter.
Fantastic, this article must have impressed them, running a set of regression analyses with carefully selected variable to examine different social mechanisms… let’s have a closer look then:
The scope of the journal covers all topics related to social sciences and we will be appointing Editors in the fields given below, including but not limited to:
1. Anthropology
2. Area Studies
[…]
45. Women’s Studies
46. Other related fields
OK, I slightly abbreviated this list for the sake of this blog post… I don’t know, only 45 subfields of the social sciences, is this broad enough? Thankfully, we get #46 (“other related fields”), and recall the “but not limited to” just above the list…!
Then they ask me to contact them should I be interested, but the best comes last:
[If you prefer not to receive any further emails, please send us an email with the subject line “UNSUBSCRIBE”]
Yes, definitely not spam — I mean don’t we all have this line at the bottom of our e-mails??