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Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers

PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:15 am
by Staropramen
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.

Over the past two years, computer scientist Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013. Sixteen appeared in publications by Springer, which is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and more than 100 were published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), based in New York. Both publishers, which were privately informed by Labbé, say that they are now removing the papers.


http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-w ... rs-1.14763

There's modern science for you :lol:

Re: Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers

PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:35 am
by bahr
Labbé says that the latest discovery is merely one symptom of a “spamming war started at the heart of science” in which researchers feel pressured to rush out papers to publish as much as possible.


Money, money, money ... Their love of money is so great that, in the end, they'll kill the golden goose!

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more ...