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Old 5th October 2018, 19:12     #6
[Malks] Pixie
 
Yeah I understand all this - there is a long history of hoaxes, pranks and other shenanigans in academic publishing, particularly in the humanities (though physical geography seems pretty prone to it as well). They are healthy for fields to be exposed to.

Hell I used to use an automated generator similar to this to submit papers to computer science journals and conferences while doing post grad and tutoring - even had a couple (5 I think from memory) accepted, which of course I withdrew (with an explanation of why) because ethics.

All fields have issues with validating knowledge, no different to the open access issues with scientific fields.
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