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Testing whether anyone actually reviews academic papers submitted to
certain conferences by making the paper as silly as possible!
'Via the always excellent Retraction Watch, we learn of the story of
Navin Kabra, an entrepreneur in India who was realizing that the
requirement placed on many students in India that they must get two
papers "published" at various conferences was really just a huge scam to
get students to pay the fees for the submissions and the conferences. In
order to expose all of this, he created two gibberish papers, mostly
using the infamous SCIgen app which generates gibberish scientific
sounding text. Both papers were accepted, and he paid the fees to have
one "published." You can read Kabra's astounding account of all of this
on his own blog, or read the incredible paper that was both accepted and
published by the conference.'
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
