[tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

NY Times on the conferences that accept word salad abstracts for presentations (comparable to the predatory journals). See: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_up_20180131&nl=upshot&nl_art=7&nlid=389166&ref=img&te=1 So

RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

Hey TIPS is alive!!! Thanks for posting, Mike. Yes, hardly a day goes by nowadays when I don't get one or more emails urging me to submit to this journal or to that conference. Some of their salutations are kind of funny: "Dear valuable researcher ..." But, this stuff is really getting out of h

Re: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

Hah! The UWF gmail system sends most of these messages directly to the spam box, but a few slip through from time to time. I think the frequency of these solicitations is now about 10 times (or more) that of the solicitations from Nigerian princes with big bank balances to give away. :-) I saw on

[tips] Mommas Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up To Be Scientific Researchers....

unless they like being poor and having uncertain futures. A NY Times article paints the current dismal picture in some of the "hard" sciences. I assume the situation is similar in psychology and social sciences. NOTE: neuroscience does not seem to be immune. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/

RE: [tips] Mommas Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up To Be Scientific Researchers....

One of the most interesting discussions that I have heard about the Ph.D. surplus in the biomedical sciences was a talk by Brian Martinson at the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7CdeOcu1ng (go to minute 39.35 or for the more relevant segment go to mi

Re: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

I’m surprised that the New York Time took so long to catch on to this. It has been going on for over a decades now. There is a famous case of a group of computer science grad students at MIT who, back in 2005, wrote a program called SciGen to generate fake computer science papers. They submitted

RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

Dear Tipsters, Following Chris’s posting below, you might be interests in my activity on this matter. My little project is now closed. What follows is an extract from my CV: Special Group of Eight Publications ***The following six papers were published in journals on Jeffrey Beall’s lists of “

RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

Stuart, article charges can be pretty steep in some of these predatory journals,. How did you manage? Miguel From: Stuart McKelvie [smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 3:18 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject:

RE: [tips] interpretations of partial eta squared

Good commentary, Michael. Frankly, I am not very fond of any proportion of variance effect size estimate, but the squared partial strikes as especially wicked, especially since most people who use them have no idea what they are. Cheers, [Karl L. Wuensch]

RE: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish

Dear Miguel (and Tipsters), Here is what I did. In the first case, I had not realized that the journal was predatory and I paid the $200. Each of the other predatory journals to which I submitted had invited me. I checked their websites for fees. In some cases they were listed, in some cases