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This finally happened. Narrow specialization at its best.
by ph0rcyas 14y ago
This finally happened. Narrow specialization at its best.
- omaranto 14y agoNo, that's not what happened: this journal is a scam, they publish anything vaguely math paper-like in exchange for $500.
- levesque 14y agoThis! It ends up making open access journals look bad because people make the wrong associations.
- curiousdannii 14y agoThen why even bother giving a referee report? But I guess scammers do many strange things...
- gioele 14y agoBecause an accepted paper without some report is something that has never been seen and thus highly suspicious. No typos to report? All the prose is perfect and understandable? No missing references? No formatting issues?
- omaranto 14y agoThis sounds to me like asking "Why would a scammer do something that makes the scam more plausible?". The answer is, of course, to make more people fall for it. Their target is tiny (people that want to write math papers!), so they need to give at least the appearance of being legit.
- curiousdannii 14y agoIt depends if the authors are in on the scam or not -- is it scamming authors of their money, or scamming universities who are checking CVs?
- pfortuny 14y agoYou need a 'peer-reviewed' journal for a paper to be relevant in your cv in Spain. And by relevant I mean "it DOES count as a paper". If it is not 'peer-reviewed' it does not count. (Even if they are cr*p, yes). You may have proved anything. You may even be Thurston. If you do not have 'papers' (like most of Thurston's second era works), they are NOTHING in Spain. I guess something similar happens in other countries...