The Citation Payola
“The proposition that a niche of citation brokers exists, opens our eyes to other transaction options..” . Smut Clyde
Tag: engineering
Salesmen of Green Economy Bullshit
“This bullshit is a form of greenwashing, as policymakers might believe that with growing amount of “research” we are making progress. Except we are heading nowhere.” – Alexander Magazinov
Bad Choices in Dresden IV
A guide on what qualities universities in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe expect from their foreign PhD students and postdocs.
The perfect MDPI editor
“I know you cannot understand such matters, since you appear to have strong mother-related problems that most likely have denied you of a satisfactory sexual life”, _ Enrico Sciubba, Editor-in-Chief
Veziroglu Journal of Papermill Energy
Mu Yang and other sleuths celebrate the scholarly publishing business of the late T Nejat Veziroglu, laureate of Santilli-Galilei Gold Medal for Lifetime Commitment to True Scientific Democracy
The papermilling den of Gliwice
“As you will see, there is a lot of papermilling happening in Gliwice, as if this place has suddenly become attractive to many “researchers” from different corners of the papermilling spectrum. ” – Alexander Magazinov
“They happened before I joined Uppsala University”
“There are therefore grounds for suspecting that there have been such serious deviations from good research practice that the matter should be referred to the National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct for further investigation.”
Research on Intelligent Trash Can Garbage Classification Scheme
“It’s not as if the Special-Issue Guest Editors or the imaginary ‘Peer Reviewers’ pay attention to the provenance of the images that fill the Figure-shaped gaps, or care whether the supposed alternatives in these horse-races are even algorithms at all.” – Smut Clyde
Polish science eaten by Papermill Krolczyk
“Prof. Grzegorz Królczyk, Vice-Rector for Science and Development of the Opole University of Technology, was elected President of the Council for Innovation in Higher Education and Science.”
Karimipour Saga I: Setting Boundaries
“The business of selling authorships and citations needs a steady supply of paper-shaped vehicles. It is most efficient to produce these in assembly lines that focus on a narrow topic.” – Maarten van Kampen
For Better Science 