Self-Downloadiosis: A New Form of Author Ailment and Insincerity in Academic Publication

Jeffrey Beall's bookmarks 2012-12-06

Summary:

This Facebook post describes a journal that added a "number of views" feature for each article. After implementation however, they found that people in certain countries were gaming the system to augment the number of views for their articles.

Link:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/ijls-journal/self-downloadiosis-a-new-form-of-author-ailment-and-insincerity-in-academic-publ/209784032490818

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Date tagged:

12/06/2012, 11:12

Date published:

12/06/2012, 06:42