fake conferences (WORLDCOMP’15)

Many have already fallen prey to these and still keep doing it; our students are no exception and I had a case in the far past, when such conferences were just being frowned upon. More recently another student of mine went the sour way and just now a couple of other students of ours also did it. I immediately noticed when their presentation grant request was submitted to CPG.

The name behind the next two is already famous: Hamid Arabnia, but he now puts other people under the light, since his name is now “famous”:

– WORLDCOMP’15 – The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
==> always venued in Las Vegas

– International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)
==> this one is new

– IASTED – several conferences under that organization

At the very least you should read:

https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1/
https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4/

You’ve been warned!

PS: the fact that fake conferences/journals are listed in the Qualis ranking (http://www.ic.unicamp.br/pos/qualis) is perfectly normal. Qualis (minor a few adjustments) *just* translates values from impact factors and citation indexes to a normalized scale (A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4 and B5; grade C is not considered…). Let me remind you that the people that build the Qualis indexes are not the police of the scientific world, so will not investigate claims of fake vehicles among the existing thousands of instances!

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