This week’s Improbable Big Mathematics Exercise is to predict when the next big wave of big science journals will be published. The current biggest wave of big science journals is exemplified by the journal Gigascience. (Warning: Their logo, displayed here, may confuse matters. It seems to imply that they are dealing not with giga science, […]
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Strange journals scam? UPDATE #2
And a still bit more more info about the mysterious journals publisher that presents old studies as if they are new. (See previous post for Update #1, and see the December 22, 2009 post for the original story.) Several weeks ago we emailed the contact address Scientific Research Publishing listed on their web site. The […]
Strange journals scam? UPDATE #1
We’ve gotten a little — just a little — more info about the mysterious journals publisher. (See the December 22, 2009 post for the original story.) We got in touch with David Dunning and Justin Kruger, whose study “Unskilled and Unaware…”, was honored with an Ig Nobel Prize, way back in the year 2000. That […]