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“Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” (2014)www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam
287 sats \ 4 comments \ @south_korea_ln 12 Apr science
From 2014, but more relevant than ever. Predatory journals are a pest.
Instead, they automatically accepted the paper — with an anonymous reviewer rating it as “excellent” — and requested a fee of $150.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Dkryptoenth 12 Apr
Who's spamming you @south_korea_ln? Just get a spam filter app or any software for blocking spam messages
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 12 Apr
I do. But predators conferences and journals are pretty creative.
But that's was not really the point of this article ;)
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 12 Apr
I'd be more interested in how often articles from predatory journals get covered in news outlets, since they usually have pretty distinguished sounding names.
Also, which is worse? A predatory pay to publish journal? Or a legitimate peer reviewed journal that ends up accepting hoax papers?
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 12 Apr
Included among the articles that were published were arguments that dogs engage in rape culture and that men could reduce their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys, as well as a part of a chapter of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf rewritten in feminist language.
Wow!
Indeed, predatory journals have very similar names to legit ones.
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