Tuesday, December 13, 2011

2 more bogus conferences

You should put up the whole content of annaworld.000space.com like these guys did:

http://academic-spam.blogspot.com/2011/09/dr-john-fisher-fake-figure-of-internet.html



A fake paper was accepted by Nina Ringo's Vienna conference. See

http://viennaconference.blogspot.com/ for details.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

ANNA WORLD '11 - The 2011 World Congress & Expo in Chennai, India, accepted a fake paper.

ANNA WORLD '11 - The 2011 World Congress & Expo in Chennai, India, accepted a fake paper. See http://annaworld.000space.com/ for further information.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

EI Compendex and INSPEC have never agreed with an IEEE fake conference

A very interesting post


They claim

We sent an email to EI Compendex and INSPEC. They sent us a reply that they do not have any agreement or contract with this ridiculus "conference". A lady from IET told us "All the IEEE conferences in Asia are fake conferences"

All the IEEE conferences in far east countries are fake conferences.
This absolutely garbage email reached the computers of our university as Spam.
This is conference on "Medicine and Education". It looks fake conferences and the absolute junk. What to say about the IEEE Scam. Who are the organizers? Obviously scammers of IEEE with only one target: Your wallet. We sent an email to EI Compendex and INSPEC. They sent us a reply that they do not have any agreement or contract with this ridiculus "conference". A lady from IET told us "All the IEEE conferences in Asia are fake conferences"

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Bogus conferences generate also Bogus Journals. Many IEEE Bogus conferences promise to you a publication in a bogus Journal



LIST OF UNREFEREED PAPERS, NO REVIEW, WASTE PUBLICATIONS

https://sites.google.com/site/jcseuk/volume-7-issue-2-june-2011

An Efficient Sampling Algorithm on Data Streams to Improve Closed Frequent Itemsets Mining Algorithms Results [Full Text]

Mohammad Saniee Abadeh and Mansour Tarafdar

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Facing the Duplicates in a Greek Hospital Information System [Full Text]

E. Mourtou

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Implementation of Approximate Reasoning Techniques using Vague Logic [Full Text]

Supriya Raheja, Reena Dadhich and Smita Rajpal

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A Hybrid of Simulated Annealing and Fuzzy Data Mining Approach for Concept Extraction from Databases [Full Text]

Ayoub Bagheri, Maryam Zekri and Mohammad-A. Rigi

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Spoofing A threat to Biometric Systems [Full Text]

Kezia R Badhiti and Prof.Sudha Thatimakula

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Design and Analysis of Using a Programmable Network Interface for High Speed Networks beyond the 10 Gbps [Full Text]

Mohamed Elbeshti1 , Michael Dixon and Terry Koziniec

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Design and Implementation of Extendable Media Streaming Application: Case Study of Windows 2003 Voice Recorder [Full Text]

Ezekiel U. Okike and Ayorinde Afolayan

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Development and Deployment of Fixed Wireless Access in South West Nigeria: Performance and Evaluation [Full Text]

Oluwaranti Adeniran and Achimugu Philip

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TD-PSOLA Based Emotional Speech Generation [Full Text]

A. Manpreet Kaur and B. Parminder Singh

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The Impact of Information Technology in Nigeria’s Banking Industry [Full Text]

Oluwagbemi Oluwatolani, Abah Joshua and Achimugu Philip

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Development of a Window Based Security System for Electronic Data Interchange [Full Text]

Achimugu Philip, Oluwagbemi Oluwatolani and Abah Joshua

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Their account details:

Name of Account: Chandramah Appadoo
Bank Name: National Westminster Bank
IBAN: GB90NWBK60193932123191
Swift Code: NWBKGB2L
Sort Code: 60-19-39
Bank Address: Southall Branch, 69 The broadway, Southall,
Middlessex, UB1 1LD,UK
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Source: http://fakejournalss.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/list-of-unrefereed-papers-no-review-waste-publications-journal-of-computer-science-and-engineering/

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

A very big IEEE black hole (Hole of Junk Publications. Hole that you can send your Bogus/Fake papers)

Google: China IEEE fake
or IEEE Bogus China
You will learn how the organisers took the money from innocent people by giving them a dubius conference material with many low-quality papers (junk)

Monday, May 23, 2011

A direct Proof that the most IEEE Conferences are absolutely Junk events

A direct Proof that the most IEEE Conferences are absolutely Junk events

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=18694

They have a conference with the bogus title

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=18694


Sunday, May 8, 2011

The Bogus IEEE Organization announced a junk conference

The Bogus IEEE Organization announced a junk conference:
http://www.irast.org/conferences/CACS/2011/index.html
They promise that every paper will be accepted in IEEE Data Base!!!!

What's more: The design of this ridiculous IEEE conference is like a travel agent
but it is not a surprise for us. IEEE is quite bogus and garbage marketing scheme.
So, this is a real junk conference of the holly monster of junk conferences that is called IEEE.
Google: IEEE Junk conferences as many other sites hint!

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

I found today in my INBOX this Spam of this Bogus IEEE Conference. Who can stop the IEEE Bogus Conferences?

We found today in our INBOX this Spam of this Bogus IEEE Conference।
Who can stop the IEEE Bogus Conferences?

2010 Third BOGUS International Conference on Education Technology and Training (ETT 2010)

2010年第三届教育技术与培训国际学术会议

Wuhan, China, November 27 ~ 28, 2010

http://www.ieee-ett.cn/ett2010/index.htm

BOGUS2010 Third International Conference on Education Technology and Training (ETT 2010), ETT 2010, BOGUSis focused on basic/applied research results in the fields of Education and Training.The purpose of BOGUSthe conference is to bring together researchers and developers from academia, industry, and BOGUSgovernment to advance the science, engineering, and technology in Education Technology and BOGUSTraining. The program will feature keynote presentations by prominent researchers in the field. The BOGUSbest contributed paper will be given an award. All the accepted papers will be published in the BOGUSregular issue of Journals. ETT was started in 2008. The previous conferences were held in Shanghai, BOGUSChina (2008), Sanya, China (2009).

BOGUSETT 2008 and ETT 2009 has been indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP.ETT 2010 will be published BOGUSby IEEE, Which will be indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP.

BOGUSETT2008http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5070074

BOGUSETT2009http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5379687

BOGUSETT2010已经进入IEEE会议列表:

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=17971

ETT2010已进入科学网会议列表:http://meeting.sciencenet.cn/cinfo.aspx?cid=673

BOGUS第三届教育技术与培训国际学术会议将于1127-28日在中国武汉召开。会议湖北省高教学会高校计BOGUS算机教育委员会,IEEE合作主办,会议论文集将由美国IEEE出版社出版,所有录用的论文将被EIBOGUSISTP检索。但所有论文必须有英文题目,英文摘要和英文参考文选,投稿中文或英文均可。

BOGUSThe paper submission system is open:http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ett2010

投稿系统已开放,欢迎来稿:http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ett2010

Important Date

BOGUSPaper submission due (投稿截止):October 10 , 2010

BOGUSAcceptance notification (录用通知):October 30 , 2010(We will review paper as BOGUSsoon as possible)

The secretary of ETT 2010

QQ咨询群:105477540

Email:ett2010@163.com

Tel:+86-18802716682 Miss Li +86-18802716680 Miss Jia

BOGUSWelcome toBOGUS ETT 2010 November 27 ~ 28,2010 inWuhan,China!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The netdriver blogspot revealed 3 new families of fake conferences (two from IEEE and the so-called IADIS)

we copy the following:


A new bogus multiconference from IEEE. Do not go to these fake IEEE Conferences. Be careful. The Scientific Credibility is ZERO

Avoid Fake IEEE. Do you think that we are not right when we try to reveal the fake conferences (mainly from IEEE)? See this web page. No need to comme

Do you think that we are not right when we try to reveal the fake conferences (mainly from IEEE)? See this web page. No need to comment. Having this web site
http://www.grs-association.org/icrs2010/contact.htm
it is the same if these people would say "Attention: We are a fake conference organization in collaboration with IEEE. Come and Enjoy our FAKE Conference that will publish its proceedings in IEEE"

http://www.grs-association.org/icrs2010/contact.htm

Read this web page http://www.grs-association.org/

No organization grs-association exists!

In fact the front page http://www.grs-association.org is closed
Do you wander why?
See also their Spam Email (Fake conferences without Spam cannot exist)
The following equivalency could be a Theorem in a paper that can easily be accepted,
can easily presented and easily accepted in this kind of "conferences"

THEOREM:
Junk (or Spam or Bogus) conference <===> Publication in IEEE Xplore <===> SPAM


This is their typical Spam (some fonts in chinese)



and


Apologies for cross-postings? or apologies for organizing fake conferences? or even Apologies for accepting SCIgen (software generated silly texts)
Apologies for cross-postings? or apologies for organizing fake conferences? or even Apologies for accepting SCIgen (software generated silly texts)
These are the IADIS notoriously bogus conferences. Avoid them and reject academic CVs of candidates containing IADIS Publications and IADIS fake conferences.
Do not refund registration fees of participants in IADIS junk conference. They spam us everyday.



Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 6 September 2010 --

IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society
29, 30 November and 1 December 2010 – Perth, Australia

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed)....



Thursday, July 15, 2010

NEW BOGUS CONFERENCES? We received a comment and we publish it

I believe that the annual conferences (MULTICONF) run by PromoteResearch.org are suspect. I believe that they do not properly review research papers. A conference that does not properly review research papers is known as a fake conference. PromoteResearch.org has the following conferences held in Orlando, Florida: AIPR, ARCS, BCBGC, CCN, EISWT, HPCS, ISP, IVPCV, SETP, TMFCS.

See http://multiconf.000space.com for further information on whether these are fake conferences.

It is really interesting. We copied-pasted here the text from http://multiconf.000space.com


I believe that the annual conferences (MULTICONF) run by PromoteResearch.org are suspect. I believe that they do not properly review research papers. A conference that does not properly review research papers is known as a fake conference. PromoteResearch.org has the following conferences held in Orlando, Florida: AIPR, ARCS, BCBGC, CCN, EISWT, HPCS, ISP, IVPCV, SETP, TMFCS.

I also believe that PromoteResearch.org conferences are run by Bhanu Prasad (from Florida A&M University) who works behind the scenes. He is the one who responds to issues raised about PromoteResearch.org conferences. He is the one who invites people to join the program committees. See the following link for one of Bhanu Prasad's responses to someone who questioned the legitimacy of his conferences:

http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2007/11/bogus-or-not-you-decide.html

Bhanu Prasad's name had not appeared with the conference anywhere on the Web before. He used his real name because he had to. Apparently someone sent an email to one of the conference program committee members and questioned the legitimacy of the conferences. That program committee member asked Bhanu Prasad to respond to the question. Why would he ask Bhanu Prasad to respond to such sensitive issues? If PromoteResearch.org conferences are legitimate, then why wouldn't the main organizer disclose his name?

I believe that they do not properly review research papers. When an author submits a paper to PromoteResearch.org using a free email address such as a Gmail, Yahoo mail, or Hotmail address, PromoteResearch.org responds by asking the author to submit the paper from an email address associated with a company, university, college, or an organization. They know that members of the research community use free email addresses such as Gmail, Yahoo mail, and Hotmail addresses to submit computer generated gibberish papers (see SCIgen) to check the legitimacy of conferences. See the email correspondence below and http://www.promoteresearch.org/2009/paper-author-information.txt to see that PromoteResearch.org doesn't accept papers submitted from free email addresses such as Gmail, Yahoo mail, and Hotmail addresses. I believe this is a clear indication that PromoteResearch.org does not review submissions. I believe they have adopted the above policy as a means to check whether a submission is a potential computer generated gibberish submission. I believe that they only seek to verify that a paper is coming from a legitimate source rather than looking at the quality of the paper.

I tried to submit a research paper using a Gmail account because my research paper is not associated with my work at the company where I'm employed. In response to my submission, PromoteResearch.org asked me to resend the paper from my company email address. When I told them that my research paper is not associated with the work that I do where I am employed, so I do not wish to use my company email address, their response was to email them my C.V. But why would they want my C.V? I believe that they only seek to verify that a research paper is coming from a legitimate source rather than looking at the quality of the research paper. See the email correspondence below.

PromoteResearch.org has an annual multiconference (MULTICONF) composed of a bunch of different individual conferences. In 2010, their multiconference is called The 2010 Multi-Conference in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology and Control Engineering (MULTICONF-10) and it is composed of the following 10 conferences:


International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)

International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)

International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)

International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10)

International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)

International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)

International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)

International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)

International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)

International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)

A copy of all correspondence between myself and PromoteResearch.org is available at the following links:

Email #1

Email #2

Email #3

Email #4

Email #5

Email #6

Email #7

Email #8

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Call for Papers for BOGUS CONFERENCES from the new fake organization: http://www.PromoteResearch.org

A new fake organization spams us
It is
http://www.PromoteResearch.org

in our opinion it can be "promote money to our pockets"

Many of the organizers are well known for their fake conferences

100% No review
100% gurantee of acceptance of junk papers (try to send them papers by SCIgen)

From time to time they use the name of IEEE

It is a Shame

We received the follwoing spam today




It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research is in enterprise information systems, information technology, e-commerce, web-based systems, data-mining and related areas.

Call for papers : EISWT-10, USA, July 2010

The 2010 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. EISWT is an important event in the areas of Enterprise Information Systems, Enterprise Solution Systems, Databases as well as Web Technologies.

The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)
• International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)
• International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10)
• International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)
• International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)
• International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)
• International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)
• International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)
• International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)


MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining — all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando.

We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details.

Sincerely
John Edward

Friday, February 12, 2010

Where to Complain About Frauds & Scams on the Internet (IEEE Fake Conference)

Where to Complain About Frauds & Scams on the Internet:

This is one more IEEE Scam (IEEE Fake Conference)
IEEE Fake Conference


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Dear Colleague,

Due to Lunar New Year holidays and numerous requests, the 6th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'10) and the 7th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'10) is extending the submission deadline to 10 March 2010. We cordially invite you to submit a paper or invited session proposal.

Yantai was listed as one of the world's most inhabitable places by the United Nations and was recognized as the "most charming city of China" by China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area's many rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. Famous tourist attractions include the Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai.

Selected best papers will appear in SCI-indexed journal(s). All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore.

ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to signal processing, design, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. Previously, the joint conferences in 2005 through 2009 each attracted over 3000 submissions from around the world. ICNC'10-FSKD'10 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. The registration fee of US*D 390 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, and all technical sessions.

To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China’s mainland), researchers outside of China’s mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China’s mainland. All papers in the invited sessions can be marked as "Invited Paper". One organizer for each invited session with at least 6 registered papers will enjoy an honorarium of US*D 400. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a list of recommended papers is determined by 30 March 2010. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icnc2010@ytu.edu.cn

For more information, visit the conference web page:

http://icnc-fskd2010.ytu.edu.cn/

If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc2010@ytu.edu.cn

Join us at this major event in beautiful Yantai !!!

Organizing Committee

icnc2010@ytu.edu.cn

P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues or students who may be interested.

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To forward what? a fake conference call-for-paper?
On the contrary, we protect our colleagues from Fake Conferences, guys.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Most of the Researchers doubt now the validity and reliability of the IEEE

Most of the Researchers doubt now the validity and reliability of the IEEE


http://groups.google.com/group/alt.college.camp-all-stars/browse_thread/thread/01928db0bf204a85


References

1) http://crappyconference.blogspot.com


A letter from Evan M. Butterfield (Director of Products & Services, IEEE Computer Society10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, CA 90720714.816.2165) informed in Jan 17, 2009 the following:

This is the official confession of IEEE Fake Conferences (Many Sites on the Web have Published it)


From: EButterfield@computer.org
to: EButterfield@computer.org
cc: ABurgess@computer.org,
John Walz: ,
"Reisman, Sorel" , AStickley@computer.org, TBaldwin@computer.org, r.sterritt@ulster.ac.uk

date Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:03 AMsubject Confidential: Important CPS Message Regarding Fraudulent Machine-Generated Paper Submissions


TO: CPS Clients FROM: Evan Butterfield, Director of Products and Services RE: Fraudulent Machine-Generated Paper Submissions (CONFIDENTIAL) DATE: 16 January 2009

 
The IEEE Computer Society (CS) has evidence that multiple (IEEE) conferences are receiving machine-generated papers. In two cases, conferences have actually accepted an obviously fraudulent submission. This is a serious issue that threatens the credibility of your conference, the quality of the digital library, and the reputation of both the IEEE and CS. It requires your immediate attention. Please take this opportunity to ensure that your peer review processes are being followed, and adapt to any new requirements that may be communicated by the IEEE or the Computer Society. No conference published by CPS should rely on an abstract review. It is very important that you review carefully the full text of all papers submitted to your conference. If you have already accepted papers, your program committee should review the full text again. While CPS staff will be conducting random spot-checks of conference papers in the publishing queue, we are relying on you to authenticate the content of your proceedings. Any papers that were not actually presented at your conference need to be brought to our attention, and should receive close review. In known cases, the machine-generated origin is obvious from a reading of the first few paragraphs of the paper; the abstracts are human-generated and do not indicate the quality of the paper itself. In the past, papers have been submitted by “Herbert Schlangemann,” but be mindful that the perpetrator of this fraud will change the approach over time. In the event you discover any evidence of questionable content or behavior, please communicate that to us immediately along with an action plan for addressing the problem. Thank you for your help in maintaining the quality of our products.


See: http://bogusconferences.blogspot.com/2009/05/bogus-conferences-ieee-confess.html

Monday, December 7, 2009

See a new incident for an IEEE Bogus conference

From: http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2009/12/we-received-this-comment-from-shie-yuan.html
They say:


We received this comment from Shie-Yuan Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

I did attend the IEEE Bogus Conference on Sensor Networks 2009 in New Zeland

The tracks that I attended were of shameless quality.

The conference was also of a garbage eventI did attend more than 10 sessions and not all, but several papers, were absolutely the worst junk that I have seen in my life

Shie-Yuan Wang,

National Chiao Tung University,
Taiwan ROC

Also as Prof. J.Moran (IEEE fellow) claimed 3 years ago
" What is actually the IEEE Crappy Conferences?

The IEEE fake conferences that scam money out of academics using high registration fees,
accept everything rather than subjecting submissions to any sort of peer review
Try to google: IEEE Fake or IEEE Scam or IEEE Bogus"

Friday, November 27, 2009

the fake manuscript to The Open Information Science Journal (TOISCIJ) at the end of January of 2009

After the hundred of fake papers that several bogus IEEE conferences have published all over the world, we discovered another "good" case of fake journals.

An open access journal has agreed to publish a nonsensical article written by a computer program, claiming that the manuscript was peer reviewed and requesting that the "authors" pay $800 in "open access fees."

Philip Davis, a PhD student in scientific communications at Cornell University, and Kent Anderson, executive director of international business and product development at the New England Journal of Medicine, submitted the fake manuscript to The Open Information Science Journal (TOISCIJ) at the end of January of 2009


Image: Jupiter Images
Davis generated the paper, which was titled "Deconstructing Access Points," using a computer program -- called SCIgen -- created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and Anderson signed the work using pseudonyms (David Phillips and Andrew Kent). The two listed the "Center for Research in Applied Phrenology" (CRAP) as their home institution on the paper, which featured fictitious tables, figures and references.

"I wanted to really see whether this article would be peer reviewed," said Davis. "[Our paper] has the look of an article, but it makes no sense."

Davis told The Scientist that he got the idea for this "little experiment" after receiving scores of spam emails soliciting article submissions and invitations to serve on editorial boards of open access journals from Bentham Science Publishers, TOISCIJ's publisher. According to its website, Bentham publishes "200 plus open access journals" that cover disciplines from bioinformatics and pharmacology to engineering and neuroscience. "One of the things that made Bentham catch our eye," Anderson said, "was that they were so aggressively soliciting manuscripts."

The two wrote about the incident today on the Scholarly Kitchen, the Society for Scholarly Publishing blog that they run.

Davis said that last week the journal notified him that it had accepted the manuscript, which contained absolutely meaningless statements typified by the first few lines of its introduction: "Compact symmetries and compilers have garnered tremendous interest from both futurists and biologists in the last several years. The flaw of this type of solution, however, is that DHTs can be made empathic, large-scale, and extensible. Along these same lines, the drawback of this type of approach, however, is that active networks and SMPs can agree to fix this riddle."

He received an email from Ms. Sana Mokarram, assistant manager of publication at Bentham, that the manuscript "has been accepted for publication after peer-reviewing process in TOISCIJ." But Davis said that he received no reviewer comments in reference to the sham manuscript.

"The publisher said that it went through peer review," Davis said. "That looks very suspect. [Bentham says] that they're a scientific publication that does peer review, but at least in one case they did not do peer review, and they said that they did."

I called Richard Morrissy, who's listed as the US contact for Bentham Science Publishers on the company's website, but he declined to answer my questions and instead directed me to his supervisor, Matthew Honan, who works in Bentham's France office. Honan does not have a phone number, according to Morrissy, and he did not reply to an email (which was CC'ed to Bentham's marketing team in Pakistan) by the time this article was posted.

Earlier this year, Davis submitted another fake SCIgen-generated manuscript to a Bentham journal, The Open Software Engineering Journal, and it was rejected after what appeared to be an actual peer review process.

Mokarram's acceptance email for the TOISCIJ article had a fee form attached, asking Davis to submit an $800 payment to a post office box in the SAIF Zone, a tax-free complex in the United Arab Emirates. Davis wrote back and retracted the manuscript. "We have discovered several errors in the manuscript which question both the validity of the study and the results," he wrote in an email to Mokarram.

Davis said that he considered scraping together the $800 to see if Bentham would actually publish the fake paper, but considered that taking the hoax further would be "unethical."

"I think that the point has been made," he said. "And, I mean, it's $800, and I'm a graduate student."

All joking aside, Davis and Andrews say the episode points out potentially serious flaws in the open-access, author-pay model being adopted by an increasing number of publishers. "What happens to be going on is that some publishers see this as a lucrative opportunity," Davis said. "This open access environment may set up the condition under which publishers could use the good will of academics and their institutions for profit motives."

Open access journals generally charge authors fees to publish research papers. For example, BioMed Central journals charge up to $2265 in "article processing fees," and publishing in the PloS family of journals costs authors between $1300 - $2850. With institutional libraries, including Cornell's, and granting institutions, such as the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, offering to pay open access publication fees for faculty authors and grantees, the potential for abuse may be increasing. "It's almost an inevitability that you might have several publishers tempted to take advantage of this relatively easy money," said Anderson.

But open access advocate Peter Suber from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, told The Scientist that the problem is not the open access business model, per se. "If it were intrinsically suspect, we would have to level that criticism at a much wider swath of subscription journals," many of which also charge page fees when manuscripts are accepted for publication, Suber said.

As for Bentham, Suber noted that "many questions about their business" have been circulating for more than a year. "There's a whole range of quality in open access journals," Suber said, "in the same way that there is a whole range of quality in subscription journals."

Correction (June 10): The original version of this story incorrectly gave Peter Suber's affiliation as Earlham University in Richland, Virginia. Suber is actually at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. The Scientist regrets the error.

So, the road that IEEE organization opened with the fake, junk papers (put in the Google, please,
fake IEEE, or Bogus IEEE) is long!!!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The IARIA continuing its policy of absolutely non-reviewed articles and the IEEE publishes all the Proceedings with garbage papers of IARIA

We do not know anymore what to assume. The IARIA continuing its policy of absolutely non-reviewed articles and the IEEE publishes all the Proceedings with garbage papers of IARIA
The IARIA is a real disaster and a slap in the face of science.

Why doesn't IEEE stop to publish the IARIA proceedings? because of the commission of course!

We received the following email

Recently, many fake article were published in IEEE. This conference was the IEEE Conference on Sensors
IEEE SENSORS 2009 Conference 25-28 October
Canterbury 8013New Zealand

Unfortunately, my 3 papers were accepted without any review and now I found in the Proceedings some absolutely junk (SCIgen or almost SCIgen papers)

Regards

Stanislav

Monday, June 15, 2009

They say: "** apologies for cross-postings ** This does imply one more bogus conference

** apologies for cross-postings **

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 26 June 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2009

BOGUS CONFERENCE. TARGET FOR POTENTIAL FAKE PAPERS' CREATORS
IF YOU WANT TO TEST YOUR ABILITIES SEND THEM FAKE PAPERS
THEY WILL ACCEPT ALL OF THEM

Rome, Italy, 19 - 22 November 2009

(http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):

Daniel Schwabe, Professor, Department of Informatics, Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil


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TARGET FOR POTENTIAL FAKE PAPERS' CREATORS
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* Conference background and goals

The IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference

The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected Journals.

* Types of submissions

Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

Web 2.0

- Collaborative Systems

- Social Networks

- Folksonomies

- Enterprise Wikis and Blogging

- Mashups and Web Programming

- Tagging and User Rating Systems

- Citizen Journalism

Semantic Web and XML

- Semantic Web Architectures

- Semantic Web Middleware

- Semantic Web Services

- Semantic Web Agents

- Ontologies

- Applications of Semantic Web

- Semantic Web Data Management

- Information Retrieval in Semantic Web

Applications and Uses

- e-Learning

- e-Commerce / e-Business

- e-Government

- e-Health

- e-Procurement

- e-Society

- Digital Libraries

- Web Services/SaaS

- Application Interoperability

- Web-based multimedia technologies

Services, Architectures and Web Development

- Wireless Web

- Mobile Web

- Cloud/Grid Computing

- Web Metrics

- Web Standards

- Internet Architectures

- Network Algorithms

- Network Architectures

- Network Computing

- Network Management

- Network Performance

- Content Delivery Technologies

- Protocols and Standards

- Traffic Models

Research Issues

- Web Science

- Digital Rights Management

- Bioinformatics

- Human Computer Interaction and Usability

- Web Security and Privacy

- Online Trust and Reputation Systems

- Data Mining

- Information Retrieval

- Search Engine Optimization

* Important Dates:

- Submission Deadline - 26 June 2009

- Notification to Authors - 24 July 2009

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration - Until 4 September 2009

- Late Registration - After 4 September 2009

- Conference: Rome, Italy, 19 to 22 November 2009

* Conference Location

The conference will be held in Rome, Italy.

* Secretariat

IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2009

Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3

1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: secretariat@internet-conf.org

Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Co-Chairs

Bebo White, Stanford University, USA

Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Conference Chair

Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Committee Members: *

* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events

Please also check the co-located events Applied Computing 2009 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 19-21 November 2009 and CELDA 2009 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) - 20-22 November 2009

* Registered participants in the WWW/Internet conference may attend the Applied Computing and CELDA conferences’ sessions free of charge.





BOGUS CONFERENCES OF IADIS.

TARGET FOR POTENTIAL FAKE PAPERS' CREATORS
IF YOU WANT TO TEST YOUR ABILITIES SEND THEM FAKE PAPERS
THEY WILL ACCEPT ALL OF THEM