My fellow academics and researchers will likely be amused by this journal spam I just received. There's just so much fodder for ridicule here that I don't even know where to begin.
Thursday, December 15, 2016
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Since when is speed a virtue when it comes to reviewing scholarly papers?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much they charge you to get your article published.
ReplyDeletePlainly, a hotbed of future Nobel winners.
ReplyDeleteI got an email from a journal after presenting a very incomplete idea at a conference. It was spam, but personalized with an actual human editor emailing. Apparently, they act as a type of clearing house of poorly formatted, poorly thought out ideas. They've no interest in quality (as per a helpful blog on the phenomenon), but want essays to "peer review". The review process is intended to be a rubber stamp and this particular blogger refused to move along an essay that was all but unintelligible and was subsequently released from the duty.
ReplyDeleteApparently they make their money due to the typical university convention to subscribe to journals especially if faculty have published in them.
lolololol
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