Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal 314
sciencehabit writes "A European publisher today terminated a journal edited by climate change skeptics. The journal, Pattern Recognition in Physics, was started less than a year ago. Problems cropped up soon afterward. In July, Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, noted 'serious concerns' with Pattern Recognition in Physics. As he wrote on his blog about open-access publishing, Beall found self-plagiarism in the first paper published by the journal. 'In addition,' says another critic, 'the editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis, which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing.'"
Re:Meh. (Score:0, Funny)
It's really hard to find much originality in right-wing conspiracy nuts these days. The only one I've read recently is a batch of loons on CNN claiming that the U.S. News & W.R. list of recommended diets has the paleo diet listed tenth as part of a government conspiracy to keep Americans sick in order to benefit the health care industry (and maybe insert something about protecting farmers' profits.)
Re:"Self-Plagarism"? Care to define that? (Score:4, Funny)
what has been original in the last 10 yrs?
Round corners on handheld devices, according to Apple.