Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them. The fake papers are in the fields of computer science and math and have titles such as “Application and Research of Smalltalk Harnessing Based on Game-Theoretic Symmetries”; “An Evaluation of E-Business with Fin”; and “Simulating Flip-Flop Gates Using Peer-to-Peer Methodologies." The publishers not explain how they got by the ‘peer review’ process, admitting that the papers “are all nonsense.” Many of them I had to read in graduate school.
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Another anti-gibberish slam! When are folks going to realize that our prejudice against gibberish is from a simple lack of understanding?
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