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The paper was accepted, under condition that these comments are addressed. Considering that the paper contains no meaningful content whatsoever, it should have
by anonymouz 14y ago
The paper was accepted, under condition that these comments are addressed. Considering that the paper contains no meaningful content whatsoever, it should have been outright rejected.
It seems that the journal is one of a number of recent "low tier" (putting it mildly) journals that mainly profit of the processing fee they collect to publish the paper.
I doubt this could have gotten accepted, even conditionally, by a more established journal with a reputation to lose.
- im3w1l 14y agoHere is the paper in full: http://blog.richmond.edu/physicsbunn/2012/10/19/math-journal-publishes-computer-generated-fake-paper/ http://blog.richmond.edu/physicsbunn/2012/10/19/math-journal... Well, if they rewrote the abstract, and proved their results, it would have meaningful content..
- anonymouz 14y agoI've seen it. They'd have to rewrite the abstract, state an actual result, prove it and rewrite everything in between. The "paper" is just grammatically correct but non-sensical glibberish from start to end. If a referee accepts this paper conditionally, he might as well accept a blank page on condition that the author will put something there.