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You won’t believe where this neurosurgery was practiced

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:04 pm
by nekomatic

Re: You won’t believe where this neurosurgery was practiced

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 11:11 pm
by jimbob
What

Re: You won’t believe where this neurosurgery was practiced

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 11:15 pm
by jimbob
Is it a submission to a predatory journal?

Re: You won’t believe where this neurosurgery was practiced

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:52 am
by shpalman
$1945
Article publishing charge
for open access

25 days
Time to first decision
39 days
Review time
41 days
Submission to acceptance
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/i ... se-reports

If they paid $2k to make a point I don't know what it was.

Re: You won’t believe where this neurosurgery was practiced

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 9:13 am
by Allo V Psycho
Looks like the standard hoax
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... eferences
It's possible, according to the preprint, that the journal was persuaded to waive the charges (no, I don't know why they would do that either).
However, it might also fall into the established tradition of the Christmas edition of the journal, where academics exercise what passes among them for wit in 'spoof' articles, rather than 'hoaxes' or 'frauds'. I may have had a couple of Christmas articles published: hell, I may even have done a hoax one...
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