“Cyllage City COVID-19 Outbreak Linked to Zubat Consumption” is a spoof paper that was accepted and published in a peer reviewed journal. The paper even contained the sentence “Epidemiologists believe it highly likely that a journal publishing this paper does not practice peer review and must therefore be predatory”.
One of the solutions to our first Only Connect wall was four spoof/sting papers. In this article, we provide more details.
We argue that scholarly publishers should bear some of the cost in developing tools to detect AI generated content.
We asked ChatGPT how you can identify a predatory journal. Here is what it said.
We often get asked “How do I identify a predatory journal?” But, we can turn this on its head and ask “How can I identify a NON-predatory journal?” If this article we explore this.
In our opinion, if you ChatGPT to help with the writing of your paper, you must acknowledge its use.
We call on universities to take decisive action and ban their scholars from submitting to certain journals/publishers.
We give a number of tips to enable you to avoid reviewing for a predatory journal.
In 2014 a journal accepted a paper that just repeated the phrase “Get me off your f*@^ing email list”. This article looks at the history of the paper, as well as the journal in question.
In 2020, the “World Academy of Science and Engineering and Technology” (WASET) is promoting 142,791 conferences. In this article we analyze these conferences and also estimate the revenue that they generate.