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The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology is a publication which has been described as a predatory open access journal[1][2] (a publication which has some of the surface attributes of a benign open access journal but is actually an exploitive and deceptive corruption of that model, operating as a disreputable vanity press with little scholarly value).[3]

"Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List"

Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list.

— Mazières and Kohler, "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List" (excerpt)[4]

In 2005, David Mazières (an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University)[5] and Eddie Kohler (an associate professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences[6] submitted a paper titled "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List" and submitted it to WMSCI 2005 (the 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics), a conference then notorious for its spamming and lax standards for paper acceptance, in protest of same.[7] The paper consisted essentially only of the the sentence "Get me off your fucking mailing list" repeated many times.[4]

In 2014, Peter Vamplew, an associate professor at the Federation University Australia School of Engineering and Information Technology,[8] after receiving a spam email from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, forwarded Mazières' and Kohler's old paper as an acerbic response.[9] To Vamplew's surprise, the paper was reviewed, rated as "excellent" by the journal's peer-review process[9][10] and accepted for publication.[9][11][12] The paper was not actually published as Vamplew declined to provide the required $150 publication fee.[9]

Acceptance of a paper consisting entirely of repetitions of "Get me off your fucking mailing list" has led some commenters to question the legitimacy of the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology as an authentic scholarly undertaking and ponder whether the enterprise is more interested in collecting publication fees than in contributing first-rate peer-reviewed articles to the advancement of computer science.[1][2][9]

References

  1. ^ a b Robbie Gonzalez. "Sham Journal Accepts Totally Absurd But Completely Appropriate Paper". io9. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  2. ^ a b Joseph Stromberg (November 21, 2014). ""Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" is an actual science paper accepted by a journal". Vox. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  3. ^ Elliott, Carl (June 5, 2012). "On Predatory Publishers: a Q&A With Jeffrey Beall". Brainstorm. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved November 22, 2014. Predatory open-access publishers are those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit. That is to say, they operate as scholarly vanity presses and publish articles in exchange for the author fee. They are characterized by various level of deception and lack of transparency in their operations. For example, some publishers may misrepresent their location, stating New York instead of Nigeria, or they may claim a stringent peer-review where none really exists.
  4. ^ a b Mazières, David; Kohler, Eddie. "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List" (PDF). Stanford Secure Computer Systems Group, Stanford University. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  5. ^ "David Mazieres". Stanford Secure Computer Systems Group, Stanford University. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  6. ^ "Eddie Kohler". Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  7. ^ Stuart Shieber (May 1, 2010). "World's most excruciatingly ironic conference?". The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  8. ^ "Vamplew, Peter (A/Prof)". Federation University Australia. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  9. ^ a b c d e Jeffrey Beall (November 20, 2014). "Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper". Scholarly Open Access. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  10. ^ "Review Form - Paper ID: IJ0350030 - Paper Title:Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List" (PDF). International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. Retrieved November 22, 2014. cited at Scholarly Open Access
  11. ^ Tej Pal Singh. "Dear author..." (PDF). International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. Retrieved November 22, 2014. cited at Scholarly Open Access
  12. ^ "Your manuscript has been accepted...". International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help) cited at Scholarly Open Access
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