Carlos Puebla Cruz

Folks, I kinda need some advice from y'all So I'm currently an undegrad without much experience in publishing scientific papers. Due to the pressure of many of my teachers and peers, I felt the need to get something published so I contacted an open access journal which belongs to the Herald Scholarly Open Access group to publish a review paper I initally made for a class. I initially submitted my paper in good faith thinking that it was a legit journal as everything seemed to be in order at first, but after I submitted my paper I started seeing some alarming red flags all over the place. The most alarming one was that the peer-review process lasted only a week and resulted in no major changes to the article other than changing the citation style. They are now asking me to pay a huge sum of money which I cannot and do not want to pay considering that I'm possibly dealing with a predatory journal. I even tried asking for retraction of my article but they are asking me for a withdrawal fee. So, has anybody been in a similar situation? If so, could you give me some advice into how to proceed? To be honest, I don't care that much if they go ahead and publish my article anyways (which I've heard some journals do), I just don't want to deal with a journal that could be a scam.

Hey folks! I'm new in this forum and I'm well aware that the application period has already passed for 2022, but I'm interested in applying for PhD in molecular or structural biology for next year. My main research interests are mainly cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and its application in in-situ structural biology, especially in emerging enveloped viruses. I'm currently an international student in China from a relatively decent school. My current GPA is 3.3 and I recently scored 317 (Verbal: 159, Quantitative: 158) + 3.5 (Analytical) in my GRE, I also have a research paper coming soon. Can anybody recommend me some good schools to apply in the States? I know my GPA is kinda low, which is why I wanna know is y'all can recommend me some colleges to apply. Thanks for your help and God bless!

Hi! I'm also interesting in applying for a Structural Bio PhD, but I'll be applying for the 2023 intake. How did your application go? To which universisties did you apply? Could you give me any tips to take into account when applying? Thank you and God bless!

Hey folks! I'm new in this forum and I'm well aware that the application period has already passed for 2022, but I'm interested in applying for PhD in computational or structural biology for next year. I'm currently an international student in China from a relatively decent school. My current GPA is 3.3 and I recently scored 317 (Verbal: 159, Quantitative: 158) + 3.5 (Analytical) in my GRE, I also have a research paper coming soon. Can anybody recommend me some good schools to apply in the States? I know my GPA is kinda low, which is why I wanna know is y'all can recommend me some colleges to apply. Thanks for your help and God bless!