[Tccc] Auto Generated paper in IEEEXplore Database
Dr. Muaz Niazi
thhgttg
Fri Mar 23 10:03:18 EDT 2012
Dear all:
I agree with the point made here and just wanted to add a link. In Natural
Sciences, retractions are actually quite common even in highly cited/impact
factor venues. Here please check out this blog which closely watches
retractions from highly cited journals/venues (Even PNAS with an IF of
around 9.771 has had retractions). I would agree with the point because as a
community with a common interest in high quality research practice and
ethics, we should at least demand retractions for SCI-GEN type papers (from
IEEE as well as other venues wherever we are associated with).
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/
Kind regards,
Muaz
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Kindly noting that ...
> >
> > I noted that my email does not need any reply but everybody might have
> > opinion to post. I hope this short number of emails will be enough for
> > someone in the critical position to get informed. The respect is tough
to
> > earn, easy to lose. The main point is that when quality and legitimacy
are
> > questioned, we need some kind of reference scale. While other Digital
> > Libraries so far could not give me this impression of having an
> > Auto-Generated paper in their records, these garbage items in IEEEXPlore
> > put forward all those questions that you might be asking to your mind;
> > especially when this is the sentence written on top, "*Delivering full
text
> > access to the world's highest quality technical literature in
engineering
> > and technology*"
> >
> > Someone among others wrote to me personally when I sent the first email
> > (March 18, 2012) about an auto-generated paper recorded in a suspicious
> > journal that the venue has no legitimacy. Now, if IEEEXplore has same
kind
> > of thing but in more than 1 quantity, it really gets the same treatment
of
> > losing "legitimacy". And the term legitimacy must be standardized first.
> >
> > Sometimes it's difficult to put points against some of the high ranked
> > people who vigorously defend IEEE and all of its actions. I understand
that
> > any such resource could have low-quality papers, may be even a very
naive
> > idea, or silly idea or even copy-paste but at least own created/written
> > paper, but such kind of auto-generated thing really makes things
> > questionable. It should be difficult to monitor each paper accepted in
> > every sponsored or co-sponsored or condoned so-so level conferences, but
at
> > least before uploading those rubbishes in the system of SUCH high use
and
> > reliance, a final checking method should be in place to ensure the
quality
> > statement, delivery of "highest quality technical literature" or "high
> > quality technical literature" and "no auto-generated rubbish quality"
> >
> > Compared to other resources, now it is looking ridiculous. Here's
another
> > one, most probably IEEEXplore also allows Chinese papers that I may be
> > unaware of. I clicked with English Abstract, got Chinese idea!
> >
> > "*The Detection of Unusual Events in Video Based on Bayesian Surprise
Model*",
> >
> > URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5691590&tag=1
> >
> > This model really made me surprised! If the authors were able to write a
> > nice abstract in English, I do believe they could write the entire thing
in
> > English.
> >
> > Every time an opinion is posted, some enemies are created and some
friends
> > are created. Often instead of taking responsibility, silly comments are
> > made. IEEE should resolve these issues from the top ranks. There must be
> > some real researchers there. There are lots of people curiously
searching
> > for more faults that they could not find in some of the other
established
> > resources.
> >
> > We need IEEE, but no such surprise, please. I now feel that it is
possible
> > to list all of these emails posted here and publish in a conference that
> > puts all PDFs in the IEEEXplore digital library without checking. That
will
> > be a high-impact RESEARCH paper to download from the resource!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sakib
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