Seinfeld-sourced paper gets into "legit" science journal

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-04-28

Summary:

"John McCool suspected that a scientific journal called the Urology & Nephrology Open Access Journal was essentially a pay-to-publish journal with a flimsy peer-review process. So he wrote a paper based on a bogus medical condition made up for an episode of Seinfeld and submitted it to them.

Link:

http://kottke.org/17/04/seinfeld-sourced-paper-gets-into-legit-science-journal

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Tags:

oa.new oa.predatory oa.gold oa.credibility oa.peer_review oa.journals

Date tagged:

04/28/2017, 09:07

Date published:

04/28/2017, 05:07