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: the
Journal 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
