Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The Dark Side of Academic Research -- "Get me off your fucking mailing list"

(11/25/2014) Can you believe that an 'academic' research paper "Get me off your fucking mailing list" is accepted by International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology? It is not published yet, but it has been "accepted" and the review comments is "excellent." The reason this "excellent" article is not published because the authors have to pay $150 for publication. 

This is the dark side of the academic. Under the pressure of research publication, some professors who are not productive anymore have a different way to get their paper published. These journals are called "pay-for-publication" journals. The higher education academicians know the existence of pay-for-publication journals. Probably all college professors are continuously spammed by these pseudo journals as well as some pseudo academic conferences. That is the pest of our academic lives. 



A flow chart of "Get me off your fucking mailing list." In my perspective, it is terribly done and makes no sense at all.
I would say this is the residual plot of "Get me off your fucking mailing list"
(12/11/2014) It seems that some academicians enjoy teasing these pay-for-publication journals. Another scientist just have a paper written by "Margaret Simpson and her equally fictional friend Edna Krabappel, along with someone by the name of Kim Jong Fun," and have it accepted by Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems and the Aperito Journal of NanoScience Technology.



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