“… it is difficult to do good science, write good scientific papers, and have enough publications to get future jobs.” – so wrote E. Robert Schulman 0f Charlottesville, Virginia, US, in an article for the Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 2, no. 5, 1996, entitled ‘How To Write A Scientific Paper’. The difficulties, it seems, […]
Tag: scientific research publishing
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 […]
Strange academic journals: Scam?
We have discovered what may be the world’s strangest collection of academic journals. Published by a shadowy entity, it suggests — at first glance, anyway — some kind of scam. But is there a scam, or not? If there is, what’s the point of it? If there’s not, same question. Maybe you can help us […]