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“Frontiers” journals are crap, so it’s no surprise. But I don’t understand why editors let this happen. It’s similar to academic fraud: if you lie about results
by shusaku 1y ago
“Frontiers” journals are crap, so it’s no surprise. But I don’t understand why editors let this happen. It’s similar to academic fraud: if you lie about results nobody cares about, you’ll never get caught; if you lie about big things, suddenly the hammer comes down. And for what benefit? It’s not like they walked away with a payday from splitting the open access fee. There’s nothing wrong with desk rejecting an author by saying “if your result is true, publish it somewhere better”
- flobosg 1y agoDespite the similarity in naming, Frontiers of Computer Science (Front. Comput. Sci.) is not published by Frontiers Media SA, but Springer and Higher Education Press. Note, however, that Frontiers Media does publish Frontiers *in* Computer Science (Front. Comput. Sci. (Lausanne)).
- bwfan123 1y agoThe issue here is that the deputy editor-in-chief of the journal is also an author of the paper. As such, the conflict of interest should have raised the bar to the acceptance of the paper. Here is a business idea. Start a "Frontier Journal" published electronically as a pdf. Contact professors, grad students, etc for paper submissions. Publish their papers for a fee, say $100. The paper will buff their resumes and pad their egos. Send out proceedings as pdf to participants. Everybody profits including the environment. I have seen this scam play out.
- jojomodding 1y agoHaving such a paper mill paper on your CV will do the opposite of "boasting" your CV when people from your field look at it. Usually this happens at your PhD defense at the latest.