[liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences

[Yosem Companys]

From: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com>

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html

"The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called
Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation
to the leading professional association of scientists who study
insects. But they found out the hard way that they were wrong...."

This has been a problem for a while, but now it's big enough to be a
newspaper story.

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Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
http://natpoor.blogspot.com/
https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/