Who reviewed this paper? We take a guess
Following a tweet, we look at a paper that had many citations to one particular scholar and also to the journal he edits.
Peer Review
Sting operations in predatory publishing
To demonstrate that a journal is predatory sting operations have been carried out. A nonsense paper to see if it gets through the peer review and subsequently published.
In this article we look at a few papers that were submitted to test whether a journal is predatory, whether these were submitted but never made it to publication, or whether the paper was actually published.
Journal publishes a spoof Covid-19 paper
“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”.
How not to review for a predatory journal
We give a number of tips to enable you to avoid reviewing for a predatory journal.
Get me off Your F*@^ing Mailing List
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.
WASET: 2020 Conference Schedule
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.
A traffic light system for predatory publishers?
We discuss some of these issues and ask if there is an alternative way of classifying a predatory publisher/journal and, at least, start a discussion as to how these ideas could be developed.
You want your papers reviewed quickly, right?
You might think that getting your papers reviewed quickly is a good thing, but is it?
Scientometrics article about predatory publishing is retracted
Vít Macháček & Martin Srholec (2021) Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences, Scientometrics, 126, 1897-1921 has been retracted due to: Errors in Analyses, Errors in Methods, Unreliable Results.
We provide a few more details,
How many conferences does WASET organise?
WASET (World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology) advertises over 300,000 conferences a year, approximately 900 every day. On one particular day it advertised 8,894 conferences. In the past six years, we estimate WASET’s revenue to be between EURO 8.95m and EURO 11.94m from these conferences.