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Fuzzy, Homogeneous Configurations- Simpson and Krabapple

barbc56

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In the nether realms of academia, the “publish or perish” mentality is as strong as it ever was. Nontenured professors and slave-like graduate students will submit their work anywhere to make a name for themselves. Predatory journals take advantage of these poor souls, but a few intrepid scholars hope to expose these fraudulent outlets.

Such is the case for The Simpsons‘ Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel, whose paper “Fuzzy, Homogeneous Configurations” was accepted for publication by two “scientific” journals: theJournal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems, and the Aperito Journal of NanoScience Technology. According to VOX, engineer Alex Smolyanitsky hoped the submission would expose both journals. It worked

http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/12/two-sc...a-paper-by-maggie-simpson-and-edna-krabappel/

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!
Barb









 
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