Category Archives: Academia

Journal editor resigns over hoax article

A report from the Guardian:

The editor-in-chief of an academic journal has resigned after his publication accepted a hoax article.

The Open Information Science Journal failed to spot that the incomprehensible computer-generated paper was a fake. This was despite heavy hints from its authors, who claimed they were from the Centre for Research in Applied [...]

Readers lash out at punctuation errors on Stanford University plaque