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| Bill Penrose... |
 Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:17 am |
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'Open access' journals were the great hope of scientists weary of long
waits for publication, especially with tenure and grants in the
balance. But it didn't take the commercial journal publishers long to
zero in on open access as another profit center, regardless of
quality.
In the biotech magazine The Scientist', Bob Grant describes a
successful attempt to hoax an open access journal:
"An open access journal has agreed to publish a nonsensical article
written by a computer program, claiming that the manuscript was peer
reviewed and requesting that the "authors" pay $800 in "open access
fees."
"Philip Davis, a PhD student in scientific communications at Cornell
University, and Kent Anderson, executive director of international
business and product development at the New England Journal of
Medicine, submitted the fake manuscript to The Open Information
Science Journal (TOISCIJ) at the end of January.
"Davis generated the paper, which was titled "Deconstructing Access
Points," using a computer program -- called SCIgen -- created at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and Anderson signed the work
using pseudonyms (David Phillips and Andrew Kent). The two listed the
"Center for Research in Applied Phrenology" (CRAP) as their home
institution on the paper, which featured fictitious tables, figures
and references."
[...lengthy article continues]
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55756/
[The Scientist online edition is free, but its website hides behind a
password. You can register by declaring that you work in the
biosciences and that you buy a lot of stuff that they advertise.]
Links to the phony paper are given.
Dangerous Bill |
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