Peer Review: shoddy publishing (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Wednesday, December 17, 2014, 00:44 (3631 days ago) @ David Turell

Whew!-http://www.vox.com/2014/12/7/7339587/simpsons-science-paper-"A scientific study by Maggie Simpson, Edna Krabappel, and Kim Jong Fun has been accepted by two journals.-"Of course, none of these fictional characters actually wrote the paper, titled "Fuzzy, Homogeneous Configurations." Rather, it's a nonsensical text, submitted by engineer Alex Smolyanitsky in an effort to expose a pair of scientific journals — the Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems and the comic sans-loving Aperito Journal of NanoScience Technology."


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