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This isn't a pervasive problem in the peer-reviewed math literature. It is a problem with one publisher that is widely regarded to lack legitimacy. See https:/

• kens 14y ago
  Yes, the journal has been labeled a money-making scam: if you need publications (for your academic career), they'll publish your paper in exchange for large publication fees. The "peer-reviews" are basically token reviews. I don't think there's any larger meaning here about the state of mathematics. See one of the blog post comments for details: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/10/17/paul-taylor/stochastically-orthogonal/comment-page-1/#comment-6010 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/10/17/paul-taylor/stochastica... (And as random trivia, the four-color theorem was the first major theorem to be proved using a computer. Based on the headline, I was expecting something like that.)
  • 001sky 14y ago
    Neither Marcie Rathke nor the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople is willing to pay the ‘processing charges’ levied by Advances in Pure Mathematics, so we will never know if the work would actually have made it to publication. -- How much $$, just out of curiosity?
    • omaranto 14y ago
      $500, see http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102 http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102
• ChuckMcM 14y ago
  Since publishing is 'valuable' people will appear to offer up 'publiching' as a service. I am surprised that being published in such journals would 'count' in your academic credentials.