[Air-L] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences

[Elijah Wright]

How long till someone marries up the PGP Web-of-Trust and LinkedIn and ISI
impact factors / JCR and some other social media data to vet conferences as
reputable or not?

Imagine cryptographically signing that you were at a conference and found
it viable as a real academic interaction - or not.  And being able to mark
as trusted/invalidating other people's evaluations of events.

And imagine how little time it would take for people to start trying to
game such a system.  ;-)

best,

--e




On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html
>
> "The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called
> Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to
> the leading professional association of scientists who study insects. But
> they found out the hard way that they were wrong...."
>
> This has been a problem for a while, but now it's big enough to be a
> newspaper story.
>
> -------------------------------
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