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Journal Accepts Paper Reading “Get Me Off Your _______ Mailing List”
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A paper that largely consists of the words “Get me off your ____ing mailing list” repeated 863 times has been accepted by a journal that claims to be peer reviewed. The move might appear to offer hope to scientists struggling to get marginal work published, but really just exposes the extent of scam publications pretending to be contributing to science.
“Publish or Perish” is more than a catch-phrase for scientific researchers. With rare exceptions, such as those working for secret military projects, research scientists need to publish regularly if they hope to advance, or often just keep, their career. High impact journals such as Science and Nature help most, but getting into these is hard and even less prestigious journals can be a challenge.
This has created a market for bottom feeders with impressive sounding names and absolutely no standards. For a fee, they will publish anything. Unscrupulous, desperate or very naive scientists can pad out their CVs and hope no one notices the quality of some of the journals they list.
No one goes into science to do this kind of stuff though, so these “journals” spam email lists in the hope the suggestion will arrive in a moment of weakness.
Dr Peter Vamplew, a computer scientist at Federation University Australia got one too many invites from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology and hit back with the seven words repeated over and over, along with headings, pseudo-citations, a flow chart and graph.
http://www.iflscience.com/technolog...ng-mailing-list
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Just thought it was funny.
Figure 2 seems to have some confirmation bias.
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