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Category Archives: Academia
The Conference Hotel Booking Scam
Something interesting happened to me in the last few days. To my knowledge, this seems to be a scam, and to be something relatively new, so I want to share the information. Here is the context. I will be a … Continue reading
Computer Science Journals and Conferences with the most withdrawals in 2024
We are now in 2025, and like last year, I will analyze the list of the computer science journals and conferences with the most withdrawal for the previous year (see this blog post for 2023). Methodology To verify how many … Continue reading
About Academic conferences in China
Recently, I have attended the launch of The Blue Book on the Development of International Academic Conferences in china 2024 (中国国际学术会议发展蓝皮书 2024) published by the AEIC (哎思科蓝）company. This report is very interesting as it gives many insights about academic conferences … Continue reading
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An ethical issue in the Elsevier “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy” ?
Today, I saw something quite incredible in the Elsevier journal “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy“, which you can see in the screen shot below: The authors wrote: As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although … Continue reading
End of my term as associate editor for Array
I have been associate editor for the Array journal of Elsevier for 4 years. I have been happy to do this work but it is now the time for me to move on and focus on other things. What is … Continue reading
Computer Science Journals and Conferences with the most withdrawals in 2023
Today, we will look at Computer Science Journals and Conferences that have the largest number of retracted or withdrawn articles in 2023. A paper can be withdrawn for various reasons such as plagiarism, papers with fake results, conflict of interests, … Continue reading
How to deal with unethical reviewers? The good example of the EAAI journal
Today, I will talk about a problem that has been plaguing many academic journals in recent years. It is that several unethical reviewers are asking authors to cite several of their papers to boost their citation count. I previous wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, bad reviewer, cheating, citation, citation count, editor, journal, reviewer, unethical editor, unethical reviewer
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CSRankings: still a biased ranking
Today, I will write about a ranking called CSRankings, which is used by some people to rank computer science programs from different universities. That ranking has some interesting aspects such that its code and data is open to the public, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, General
Tagged academia, computer science, computer science ranking, csrankings
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Is EasyChair still good?
Today, I will talk about EasyChair, one of the oldest conference management systems, used in academia, especially in computer science (founded in 2002). As many other researchers, I have been a user of EasyChair for over a decade, especially as … Continue reading
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Tagged conference management system, easychair, microsoft cmt, openconf
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ChatGPT, LLMs and homework
Today, I want to talk briefly about ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) and how they are used by students in universities. From what I observe, I believe that many students are using LLMs in universities nowadays. Among this, … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, chatgpt, llm, plagiarism, university
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