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I've found a huge number of highly interesting papers out of India published in predatory journals. Unfortunately this leads to numerous problems: Barely anyon

I've found a huge number of highly interesting papers out of India published in predatory journals. Unfortunately this leads to numerous problems: Barely anyone learns of them, and those who do have to treat them with extreme caution, because they lack sane peer review. Here's one example: http://www.worldacademicunion.com/journal/1746-7659JIC/jicvol12no3paper06.pdf http://www.worldacademicunion.com/journal/1746-7659JIC/jicvo... The Universal Padovan Code Really interesting cryptography-related work building on top of https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0701085 https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0701085, extending it from the golden ratio to the only other "morphic number", the plastic number. (See this recent Numberphile video for an introduction to the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsGUEj4w9Cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsGUEj4w9Cc) And I have tons of additional examples, but this one especially irks me, because I suspect such a line of research could help with homeomorphic encryption.

screye 7y ago
Asians in general face a major problem of lacking in formal English and technical writing skills. Paired with the scarcity of quality mentor grad students (getting into a grad programs is way easier than getting in into UG programs, the best students head to other countries ) and massive societal pressures, it is incredibly difficult to write papers at a tier 1 level. This leads to students submitting promising but half baked work to predatory journals/conferences just to get some closure. Source : submitted promising robotics work to IEEE-IROS. Got praised for the key innovation, got blasted for shoddy writing and underexperimentation. With more time it could have been better, but by then it was time to graduate and head to greener pastures.

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I've found a huge number of highly interesting papers out of India published in predatory journals. Unfortunately this leads to numerous problems: Barely anyon

by no_identd 7y ago

screye 7y ago
Asians in general face a major problem of lacking in formal English and technical writing skills. Paired with the scarcity of quality mentor grad students (getting into a grad programs is way easier than getting in into UG programs, the best students head to other countries ) and massive societal pressures, it is incredibly difficult to write papers at a tier 1 level. This leads to students submitting promising but half baked work to predatory journals/conferences just to get some closure. Source : submitted promising robotics work to IEEE-IROS. Got praised for the key innovation, got blasted for shoddy writing and underexperimentation. With more time it could have been better, but by then it was time to graduate and head to greener pastures.