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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

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Today, we will look at Computer Science Journals and Conferences that have the largest number of retracted or withdrawn articles in 2023. A paper can be withdrawn for various reasons such as plagiarism, papers with fake results, conflict of interests, … Continue reading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

Today, I will explain how to write the answer to reviewers for an academic journal using Latex. The advantage of using Latex instead of a software like Microsoft Word to write answers to reviewers is that it allows using all … Continue reading

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How to become a well-known researcher?

The other day, a young researcher asked me: what should I do to become a more well-known researcher in my field? In this blog post, I will try to answer that question. But before that, it should be said that … Continue reading

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My paper is rejected. Can I appeal the editor’s decision?

Today, I will talk about what to do when a paper is rejected from a journal, and more specifically if it is possible to appeal the editor’s decision, and then what are the chance of success? Generally, if a researcher … Continue reading

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