World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

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The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology or Waset is a robbery publisher (in English "predatory publisher".) A large number of open access - journals with a variety of scientific and technical issues.

WASET claims to organize several thousand scientific conferences per year, using names and titles that are very similar to real conferences of established scientific organizations. Hundreds of conferences can be scheduled for the same location and the same day (such as 313 conferences in a Berlin hotel on September 12 and 13, 2016). The conferences are of poor quality and anyone can give a lecture without further examination ( peer review ), provided the conference fee is paid.

Jeffrey Beall , librarian at the Auraria Library in Denver, Colorado, warns against the academy as a "predatory publisher" (English "Predatory open access publishing"), as well as against the organization of " predatory conferences " (English predatory conferences ).

"Indeed, one of their journals accepted an obviously fake article in a sting operation."

"In fact, one of their journals accepted an apparently forged article in an undercover operation."

- John Bohannon

The seat of WASET is in Turkey , the domain name is registered in Azerbaijan . It is run by Cemal Ardil, a former science teacher, with the support of his daughter Ebru and son Bora. Cemal Ardil has also authored most of the publications on the WASET website.

reception

Apart from Science and Jeffrey Beall from the University of Denver , the academic scientific community had not yet dealt much with the WASET phenomenon. In mid-July 2018, a research team from Süddeutscher Zeitung , ARD , ORF , Falter and Le Monde published articles on unscientific publications from WASET and OMICS, among others .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeffrey Beall: Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference . Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ Tom Spears: Science fiction? Why the long-cherished peer-review system is under attack . Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Beall: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers . Scholarly Open Access: Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing. November 5, 2013. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  4. ↑ Jeffrey Beall: More Duplication of Journal Titles and Conference Names by Predatory Publishers . Scholarly Open Access. October 6, 2015. Archived from the original on December 24, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
  5. ^ John Bohannon: Data and Documents .
  6. ^ Azerbaijani "academy" fools a lot of scientists from around the world . Panorama. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  7. ↑ Sefa Kaplan: Parayı bastıranı profesör yapıyorlar ( Turkish ) In: Hürriyet . Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  8. ↑ Fake Science: Pseudo-Publishers - A Threat to Science. In: br.de. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Thousands of researchers publish in pseudo-journals. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved July 19, 2018 .

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