Dear all: I agree with the point made here and just wanted to add a link. In Natural Sciences, retractions are actually quite common even in highly cited/impact factor venues. Here please check out this blog which closely watches retractions from highly cited journals/venues (Even PNAS with an IF of around 9.771 has had retractions). I would agree with the point because as a community with a common interest in high quality research practice and ethics, we should at least demand retractions for SCI-GEN type papers (from IEEE as well as other venues wherever we are associated with). http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/
Kind regards, Muaz > > Dear All, > > > > Kindly noting that ... > > > > I noted that my email does not need any reply but everybody might have > > opinion to post. I hope this short number of emails will be enough for > > someone in the critical position to get informed. The respect is tough to > > earn, easy to lose. The main point is that when quality and legitimacy are > > questioned, we need some kind of reference scale. While other Digital > > Libraries so far could not give me this impression of having an > > Auto-Generated paper in their records, these garbage items in IEEEXPlore > > put forward all those questions that you might be asking to your mind; > > especially when this is the sentence written on top, "*Delivering full text > > access to the world's highest quality technical literature in engineering > > and technology*" > > > > Someone among others wrote to me personally when I sent the first email > > (March 18, 2012) about an auto-generated paper recorded in a suspicious > > journal that the venue has no legitimacy. Now, if IEEEXplore has same kind > > of thing but in more than 1 quantity, it really gets the same treatment of > > losing "legitimacy". And the term legitimacy must be standardized first. > > > > Sometimes it's difficult to put points against some of the high ranked > > people who vigorously defend IEEE and all of its actions. I understand that > > any such resource could have low-quality papers, may be even a very naive > > idea, or silly idea or even copy-paste but at least own created/written > > paper, but such kind of auto-generated thing really makes things > > questionable. It should be difficult to monitor each paper accepted in > > every sponsored or co-sponsored or condoned so-so level conferences, but at > > least before uploading those rubbishes in the system of SUCH high use and > > reliance, a final checking method should be in place to ensure the quality > > statement, delivery of "highest quality technical literature" or "high > > quality technical literature" and "no auto-generated rubbish quality" > > > > Compared to other resources, now it is looking ridiculous. Here's another > > one, most probably IEEEXplore also allows Chinese papers that I may be > > unaware of. I clicked with English Abstract, got Chinese idea! > > > > "*The Detection of Unusual Events in Video Based on Bayesian Surprise Model*", > > > > URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5691590&tag=1 > > > > This model really made me surprised! If the authors were able to write a > > nice abstract in English, I do believe they could write the entire thing in > > English. > > > > Every time an opinion is posted, some enemies are created and some friends > > are created. Often instead of taking responsibility, silly comments are > > made. IEEE should resolve these issues from the top ranks. There must be > > some real researchers there. There are lots of people curiously searching > > for more faults that they could not find in some of the other established > > resources. > > > > We need IEEE, but no such surprise, please. I now feel that it is possible > > to list all of these emails posted here and publish in a conference that > > puts all PDFs in the IEEEXplore digital library without checking. That will > > be a high-impact RESEARCH paper to download from the resource! > > > > Regards, > > Sakib _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
