World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology or WASET is a predatory publisher[1] of a number of open access journals on a wide variety of scientific and technical subjects. It claims to organize several thousands of scientific conferences a year, using names that are the same or similar to real conferences organized by established scientific groups.[2] Hundreds of conferences may be scheduled for the same location on the same day (e.g. 116 simultaneous scientific meetings in a hotel in Rio de Janeiro in February 2016)[3]. The conferences are low-quality and anyone can present a paper by simply paying the registration fee.[4] Conferences are planned many years in advance.[3]

The publisher has been listed as a "potential, possible, or probable" predatory publisher [5] by Jeffrey Beall, and also arranges predatory conferences.[6] Indeed, one of their journals accepted an obviously fake article in a sting operation.[7] Names of researchers were included as conference committee members, without their knowledge or consent.[8] [3] Legitimate conferences have publicly warned of identically named, fake WASET conferences.[9] [10]

WASET is based in Turkey and is registered in Azerbaijan.[11]. Its domain name was registered 2007 with a contact address in Dubai.[12] 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.[13]

Journals are indexed in WASET's "International Science Index", not to be confused with the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) index, i.e. the Web of Science.[3] WASET journals were indexed by Scopus and listed in the SCImago Journal Rank from 2009 until 2011, when the coverage was cancelled.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2014-08-28). "Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  2. ↑ "WASET Bogus and Fake Conferences". fakeconferences.blogspot.com. 2014-02-02. Archived from the original on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Weber-Wulff, Debora (2015-04-04). "Brazilian Government recommends mock conference". Copy, Shake, and Paste: A blog about plagiarism and scientific misconduct. Archived from the original on 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  4. ↑ Spears, Tom (2014-10-08). "Science fiction? Why the long-cherished peer-review system is under attack". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  5. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2016-12-31). "Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  6. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2015-10-06). "More Duplication of Journal Titles and Conference Names by Predatory Publishers". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  7. ↑ Bohannon, John. "Data and Documents: Who's Afraid of Peer Review?". American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  8. ↑ White, Andrew (2016-04-11). "Junk conference warning". University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics, QT Lab. Archived from the original on 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  9. ↑ "Beware of fake conferences". 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN). 2016-11-11. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  10. ↑ "ICP12 2016 in Utrecht!". 12th International Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP12). 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  11. ↑ "Azerbaijani "academy" fools a lot of scientists from around the world". Panorama. 2014-06-24. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  12. ↑ "waset.org". Whois: Indentity for everyone. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
  13. ↑ Kaplan, Sefa (2010-12-12). "Parayı bastıranı profesör yapıyorlar" [He who plunks down money gets made professor]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  14. ↑ "World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology". Scimago Journal & Country Rank. Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2017-07-06.


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