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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

he does seem to have carefully cultivated case of engineer disease

also it's not "almost all" preprints, it's all preprints, just one repository calls these papers

he didn't discover yet predatory journals, it all could have been published for a small fee like with this one (contains mind numbing level of conspiracy-theoretic rambling and related brainworms) hxxps://uraniumisagenocidegiant[.]com/ (you have been warned)

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's one classified as "SSRN Electronic Journal 2023 | Journal article", I thought this was something like a predatory journal, hence the "almost", but now that I clicked on it I think this is just an arxiv-like website that calls itself an "electronic journal"? No fucking idea.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah that one is sneaky but it's a repository, not a journal with peer review

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Amazing.

I could "publish" my homeworks from the 5yrs of college onto arxiv and that'd be a more scientifically valuable endeavour. Better formatted, too.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

that \hbox overfull on the subsection title was painful, wasn't it?