The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog is reporting an open access journal (which charges fees to authors) accepted a nonsensical paper from a doctoral student at Cornell. The student delibrately sent in the paper as revenge for receiving multiple unsolicited e-mails from the journal’s publisher. From the article:
Similar scammers have had success in the past, most notably the hoax published in the journal Social Text in 1996 by Alan D. Sokal, a physicist at New York University.
Both Peter Suber and Stephen Downes have related commentary.
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