[Irtalk] Bogus academic journal accepts paper that reads "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" again and again (PHOTO).

[Hilton Gibson]

The real question, of course, is who’s to blame for the embarrassing state
in which academic publishing finds itself. The predatory fake journals and
conference scams, sure—they’re out to make a buck from a demographic that
is famously desperate and famously destitute, and that’s odious. But let us
not forget to blame the “publish or perish” frenzy itself as well. These
days, it’s more like publish and perish; most faculty languish as underpaid
non-tenure-trackers, despite publication so frenzied that even Peter Higgs
(you know, of the particle? The one that was named after him?) insists he
wouldn’t get tenure today. There is no reason to keep perpetuating a system
that, at its best, churns out more legitimate articles than anyone can ever
read, and at its worst allows someone to list “Get Me Off Your F--king
Mailing List” on his CV.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/24/bogus_academic_journal_accepts_paper_that_reads_get_me_off_your_fucking.html
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