| Mark Crispin 2006-09-10, 9:59 pm |
| On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, imecs__2007@iaeng.org wrote:
> It is interesting to see some of your points about the famous
> organization IEXX, like your own experience of buying the papers from
> that organization.
> [snip]
All very amusing.
It's clear that "William Young" is not a native English speaker. No
native would make the grammar mistakes that are found throughout that
posting.
By itself, poor English grammar is not untoward. However, the pretense of
using an English name, instead of his actual name, *is* a bad sign.
These low-quality, for-profit conferences all have several things in
common.
They use pretenses. They drop names, but most of the names are unknowns
in the field. Most of the institutions are also little-known, with a
modest bit of salting of world-recognized institutions; but rarely enough
to do real verification of the conferences credentials. What little can
be done shows that the actual level of involvement is quite a bit less
than the conference implies.
They use meaningless words such as "famous". They spam in forums that
have little (or no) relationship to the purported subject of the
conference. They are mega-conferences encompassing dozens sub-conferences
at the same time and venue.
Last but not least, when challenged with indisputable evidence that they
published a valueless paper, they offer a lame excuse and insist that it
is not representative of their normal standards.
This statement by "William Young", more than anything else, is the earmark
of quackery:
> There have many good examples that show us research papers that have
> been judged by many colleagues in the related domain to be of little
> academics value, but later the papers have turned out to be of very
> high values.
-- Mark --
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