{"id":94,"date":"2020-11-01T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=94"},"modified":"2022-03-04T02:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:47:57","slug":"mermaid-research-and-the-pay-to-publish-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/mermaid-research-and-the-pay-to-publish-grind\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid research and the pay-to-publish grind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This has been all done and dusted already. Really what I&#8217;m doing is archiving it here in case the other locations for whatever reason go dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The short version of events is that I was spammed by a pay-to-publish academic publisher, and I trolled them. The longer version is that this is the tip of a very dangerous iceberg of academic publishing, which threatens to destroy the credibility of peer review itself, not to mention the careers of many developing world and early career researchers. Anyhow, I banged on about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/sea-monsters-scam-academic-publishing-how-i-published-jim-clarke\/\">here before<\/a>. For reference and archiving, it is now reproduced <a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/the-sea-monsters-scam-of-academic-publishing-or-how-i-published-an-article-about-mermaids-in-an-oceanography-journal\/\">on this blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhow, here&#8217;s the article in question, just in case the hosting scam publisher goes dark, which they might well. You might have fun with it. It&#8217;s short, and packed full of joke references and some fun satire of academic writing. And lots of science fiction in-jokes for the nerds out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AOMB.MS_.ID_.000528.pdf\"><br>Speculative Oceanography<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AOMB.MS_.ID_.000528.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been all done and dusted already. Really what I&#8217;m doing is archiving it here in case the other locations for whatever reason go dark. The short version of events is that I was spammed by a pay-to-publish academic publisher, and I trolled them. The longer version is that this is the tip of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/mermaid-research-and-the-pay-to-publish-grind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mermaid research and the pay-to-publish grind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[298,28],"tags":[33,32,30,31],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-literary-criticism","tag-dodgy-publishers","tag-mermaids","tag-speculative-geography","tag-speculative-oceanography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-1w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}