Category: Peer Review

Following a tweet, we look at a paper that had many citations to one particular scholar and also to the journal he edits.

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...

"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...

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...