"Get me off your... ahem...mailing list"

An amusing take on the sort of shonky "journals" that masquerade themselves as being reliable. I won't hotlink any of the imag



http://ift.tt/1peYfyK contained within but let's just say they are tres amusing



A lesson here for any aspiring student who might be tempted by journaly looking resources when making assessment submissions

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A paper that largely consists of the words “Get me off your *********** mailing list” repeated 863 times has been accepted by a journal that claims to be peer reviewed. The move might appear to offer hope to scientists struggling to get marginal work published, but really just exposes the extent of scam publications pretending to be contributing to science. “Publish or Perish” is more than a catch-phrase for scientific researchers. With rare exceptions, such as those working for secret military projects, research scientists need to publish regularly if they hope to advance, or often just keep, their career. High impact journals such as Science and Nature help most, but getting into these is hard and even less prestigious journals can be a challenge.

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