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About that peer-review

From Nature:

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.

Over the past two years, computer scientist Cyril Labb� of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013. Sixteen appeared in publications by Springer, which is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and more than 100 were published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), based in New York. Both publishers, which were privately informed by Labb�, say that they are now removing the papers.

Aren't there supposed to be editors that catch crap like this? Talk about damaging the brand -- who would trust something from IEEE or Springer now? Posted by DaveH at February 25, 2014 10:47 AM