World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology or WASET is a predatory publisher[1] that publishes a number of open access journals on a wide variety of scientific and technical subjects. It also organizes several scientific conferences a year, using names that are the same of similar to real conferences organized by established scientific groups. The conferences are low-quality and anyone can present a paper by simply paying the registration fee.[2]

The academy has been listed as a "potential, possible, or probable" predatory publisher.[3] Indeed, one of their journals accepted an obviously fake article in a sting operation.[4]

WASET is based in Turkey and its domain name is registered in Azerbaijan.[5] It is run by Cemal Ardil, a former science teacher, with assistance from his daughter Ebru and his son Bora. Cemal Ardil is also the person who has published the most articles on the WASET website.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey. "Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference". Scholarly Open Access. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  2. ↑ Spears, Tom. "Science fiction? Why the long-cherished peer-review system is under attack". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Beall, Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers, Scholarly Open Access: Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing, dated 5 November 2013. Accessed 5 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Bohannon, John. "Data and Documents". AAAS.
  5. ↑ "Azerbaijani "academy" fools a lot of scientists from around the world". Panorama. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  6. ↑ Kaplan, Sefa. "Parayı bastıranı profesör yapıyorlar" (in Turkish). Hurriyet. Retrieved 2015-02-03.

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