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>Seems like an impressive conference, and getting a paper published in this conference should be a big achievement on any student’s resume, right? No, absolute
by kken 13y ago
>Seems like an impressive conference, and getting a paper published in this conference should be a big achievement on any student’s resume, right?
No, absolutely not. Looking at the web site immediately raises two red flags:
1) It's a multi-topic conference. Usually these fall into two categories: Undergrad conferences and money-making scams. Participating in neither of them is "a big achievement"
2) The submission deadline is 9 days before the conference starts and three days before the registrations deadline. This would give them 2-3 days for the peer review process? That's is close to impossible.
- albertyw 13y agoAnother red flag - Is it just me, or is the header image on the conference website an image of Las Vegas?
- thirsteh 13y agoDefinitely LV. Caesar's Palace, the Rio--pretty distinguishable buildings. And you can see the light beam from the Luxor.
- ngkabra 13y agoThey did say it's an INTERNATIONAL conference...
- chattoraj 13y agoFergusson College recently hosted a "NATIONAL conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applications". Needless to say, every participant was from Pune...
- notthetup 13y agoTrue. Sadly many students don't know better. And the worst part being many employers also might not know the difference either. At some level this is also an issue with raising awareness/understanding among students of how academia and research works.
- derekchiang 13y agoPerhaps the biggest red flag: papers are to be sent to icriest@gmail.com
- ngkabra 13y agoOriginal author here. The two things you pointed out were exactly the two things that first caused me to get suspicious of this conference. However, as notthetup points out, there are lots of people in the Indian education system who don't know this. And the statement I made: Seems like an impressive conference, and getting a paper published in this conference should be a big achievement on any student’s resume, right? is actually something many students and faculty in our engineering colleges actually think. (Edit: formatting)
- anonymouz 13y agoI think it is the job of the advisor of the student to guide him in the choice of conferences to go to or journals to publish in. He should know the truly important ones in his field, and be able to make a judgment of the quality of a conference or journal based on familiarity with the work of the organizers/editors and other participants. Everybody can put up a conference web page: It is completely hopeless to expect to be able judge the quality of a conference by what they claim on their web page, as the scam ones will be the ones boasting with their internationality and prestige, while the actually prestigious have no need to do so. The same goes for journals. I regularly get "calls for papers" from scammy journals that claim to be world class journals, but which are essentially a money making scheme (usually using some open access author pays model). Of course, I agree with you that the requirement of having your bachelor's or master's thesis published is idiotic, and driving students into to be victims of these scams. The universities need to stop this practice, and the advisors need to guide the students who have something that is truly worth publishing in their choice of venue.
- ngkabra 13y agoDon't even get me started on the quality of the advisors... :-(
- shubhamjain 13y agoThat explains how hollow is the pride of M. Tech teachers in our country who pat their own backs about their papers getting published. So many research papers are just crap and add nothing to the existing knowledge. Tell me something, is this true for Ph. D. as well? Because that would feel like an opener against people proudly wearing "Dr." in their titles.
- aet 13y agoYes, this conference is a scam site. Not a legit conference.