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

2018-01-31 Thread Miguel Roig
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

2018-01-31 Thread Claudia Stanny
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

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

2018-01-31 Thread Christopher Green
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

2018-01-31 Thread Stuart McKelvie
From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: January-31-18 3:12 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Fake Conferences for those Who Will Publish and Perish I’m surprised that the New York Time took so

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

2018-01-31 Thread Miguel Roig
: 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

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

2018-01-31 Thread Stuart McKelvie
1-18 4:29 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: 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: