Category Archives: Academia

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

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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

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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Today, we will look at Computer Science Journals and Conferences that have the largest number of retracted or withdrawn articles in 2023. A paper can be withdrawn for various reasons such as plagiarism, papers with fake results, conflict of interests, … Continue reading

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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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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

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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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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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When ChatGPT is used to write papers…

Today, I want to share with you something funny but also alarming. It is that some papers published in academic journals contains text indicating that parts were apparently written by LLMs. The first example is this paper “The three-dimensional porous … Continue reading

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The importance of using standard terminology in research papers

Today, I will talk about the importance of using standard terminology in research papers in computer science. The idea to talk about this on the blog came after reading an interesting letter about research on optimization called “Metaphor‑based metaheuristics, a … Continue reading

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