Author Topic: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager  (Read 1080 times)

Nearly Sane

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Humph Warden Bennett

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Far less implausible stories were explained away by dreams, alternative realities, or the holodeck.

That episode really was a stinker.

Nearly Sane

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Absolutely, but that there are 'science' journals out there that would accept this because of a number of reasons isjusr another example of why we have to be careful of fake news.

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STV had some spectacularly silly stories, but I missed that one.
When conspiracy nuts start spouting their bollocks, the best answer is "That's what they want you to think".

Harrowby Hall

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Well, I - with no appropriate qualification - have been published in a very prestigious American science journal - the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

About 10 years ago, I took a photograph at a village event and I used it to embellish a Wikipedia article on a tradition folk custom.

I decided to Google my name to see what kind of internet "footprint" I was leaving and there was a reference which meant nothing to me. I opened it and found that the activity my photograph had been used to provide an analogy of a particular process in nanotechnology. The PNAS correctly credited me with the photograph.

I shall add that paper to the (modest) list of my publications.

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Walter

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Well, I - with no appropriate qualification - have been published in a very prestigious American science journal - the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

About 10 years ago, I took a photograph at a village event and I used it to embellish a Wikipedia article on a tradition folk custom.

I decided to Google my name to see what kind of internet "footprint" I was leaving and there was a reference which meant nothing to me. I opened it and found that the activity my photograph had been used to provide an analogy of a particular process in nanotechnology. The PNAS correctly credited me with the photograph.

I shall add that paper to the (modest) list of my publications.
HH , sounds interesting perhaps you could make reference to the title of your paper so I can read it .

Harrowby Hall

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I would happily do so were it not for the fact that my real name appears in the accreditation.
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Walter

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I would happily do so were it not for the fact that my real name appears in the accreditation.
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