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 “predatory” publishers and journals. In the first case (McKelvie, 2012b), I
did not know that this journal was listed. However, the other papers were
submitted, accepted and published in full knowledge that the journals were
listed. They are part of a personal exploration into the practices of these
journals.
***McKelvie, S. J. (2012b). Exploring a counterintuitive finding with
methodological implications : Why is 9 > 221 in a between-subjects design?
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2, 45-51
***McKelvie, S. J. (2016a). What Determines Salt and Pepper Passage?A Brief
Commentary on the Published Reports. Annals of Behavioural Science, 2, 2:20
***McKelvie, S. J. (2017a). Giving 110%: The strange case of language and
sport. Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal, 3(2), 1-2. doi:
10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.03.555610
***McKelvie, S. J. (2016b). Factors in salt and pepper passage: A further
critical report on the state of the art. Psychology and Psychological Research
International Journal, 1,1.
***McKelvie, S. J. (2017c). Improbable Publishing: “Eye Color and Cheese
Preference”? A case study of a memory error. Psychology and Behavioral Science
International Journal, 5(2), 1. doi:10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.5.555656
***McKelvie, S. J. (2017d). Does clapping of hands have positive effects? A
critique. Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal, 6(3).
doi: 10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.05.555689
**The following two publications about predatory practices appeared in standard
academic refereed journals.
**McCutcheon, L. E., Aruguete, M. S., McKelvie, S., Jenkins, W., Williams, J.,
McCarley, N., Rivardo, M., & Shaughnessy, M. F. (2016). How questionable are
predatory social science journals? North American Journal of Psychology, 18
(1), 427-440.
**McKelvie, S. J. (2017b). “A Case for Treatment”: What do research reports on
salt and pepper passage reveal about research and publication practices?
Current Psychology. Published on line June 1. doi: 10.1007/s12144-017-9620-x
Sincerely,
Stuart
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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 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 one to an
sprawling conference in Orlando, which promptly accepted it and, then, after
the story started being picked up in the media, un-accepted it. The students
travelled to Orlando anyway, rented a room in the same conference center as the
real conference, and held an unofficial fake symposium, disguised in fake
moustaches.
Then there is the case, also in 2005, of the American computer scientists who
were so vexed at a particular conference spamming them repeatedly that they
responded with a mock up of an article titled “Take Me Off Your F—ing Mailing
List” and consisting of nothing but that sentence repeated over and over again.
Nine years later, 2014, an Australian engineer who was being spammed by a fake
journal responded with a copy of that very “article,” but much to his surprise,
just hours later, received a message saying that his submission had been
accepted… for a fee, of course.
It just so happens that I have been writing about this phenomenon of late. It
is much more pervasive (and worse) than most scientists (and journalists)
generally understand. Here are a few sentences from a paper about it that I’ll
be giving in the Netherlands next month:
As late as 2011, Beall reported only 18 [fake] publishers. By the time his list
was shut down by mounting legal threats in January 2017 there were 1310
(Basken, 2017). Now we are up over 1400 (Anonymous, n.d.), who operate
something like 8000 fake academic journals, which publish around 400,000 fake
articles per year (Moher et al., 2017). Considering that there are something
like 32,000 legitimate journals publishing something like 2 million legitimate
articles every year (Ware & Mabe, 2009),[1] the proportion of fake publishing
now amounts to approximately 20% of journals and 15% of articles across all of
academia.
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[1] These figures were derived by taking Ware and Mabe’s (2009) figures of
25,400 “active scholarly peer-reviewed journals… collectively publishing 1.5
million articles per year” (p. 5), and ” and applying their annual growth rates
of 3% and 3.5% respectively over 9 years.
References
Anonymous. (n.d.). Beall’s List of Predatory Journals and Publishers. Retrieved
December 19, 2017, from http://beallslist.weebly.com/
Basken, P. (2017, September 12). Why Beall’s List Died — and what it left
unresolved about open access. Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Beall-s-List-Died-/241171
Moher, D., Shamseer, L., Cobey, K. D., Lalu, M. M., Galipeau, J., Avey, M. T.,
… Ziai, H. (2017). Stop this waste of people, animals and money. Nature News,
549(7670), 23. https://doi.org/10.1038/549023a
Ware, M., & Mabe, M. (2009). The STM report An overview of scientific and
scholarly journal publishing. Oxford, UK: STM: International Association of
Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. Retrieved from
http://www.stm-assoc.org/2009_10_13_MWC_STM_Report.pdf
Of course, sheer number of publications isn’t really what counts in academia
these days; it’s the number of citations, especially recent citations. Some
authors have been caught in “citation cartels” (promising to cite each other’s
work as much as possible, even where not really relevant). One Dean of
Engineering in Malaysia was recently found to have ordered his faculty to cite
at least three other faculty in the same department every year (to jack up the
department’s citation rate and, by extension, the government's funding of the
university, which was guided by citation rates). My favorite scam, though, is
the one in which authors submit gobbledegook articles to fake journals and
conferences (with published proceedings) under a pseudonym. Why? How could a
pseudonymous article help? The nonsense article would cite the author’s
legitimate work profusely, thereby cranking up his or her citation rate (and
appearing to be from independent sources rather than self-citation).
Nice work if you can get it.
Best,
Chris
…..
Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
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On Jan 31, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Michael Palij <m...@nyu.edu<mailto:m...@nyu.edu>>
wrote:
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
Some folks actually think these are okay.
-Mike Palij
New York University
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