At New Scientist we love a good hoax, especially one that both amuses and makes a serious point about the communication of science. So kudos to Philip Davis, a graduate student in library and information science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who revealed yesterday on The Scholarly Kitchen blog that he got a nonsensical computer-generated paper accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
via CRAP paper accepted by journal – opinion – 11 June 2009 – New Scientist.
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From jeffmacintyre.com: CRAP paper accepted by journal- New Scientist http://bit.ly/ww1Li
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