学术生态中的魔鬼:掠夺性会议

Research on Predatory Conferences

文章着眼于掠夺性会议现象,对收到的未经请求的会议邮件进行调研。通过统计会议的全称、举办时间和地点、文章投稿、组委会成员、会议日程、出版信息、被重要数据库收录、联系方式等数据,深入分析该现象产生的原因、危害,并提出应对举措。

This paper makes a study on predatory conferences on the basis of the unsolicited conference e-mails received by the author. First, a detailed analysis is made of such predatory conferences’ full title, date and place,article submission,organizing committee,schedule,article publication,contact method,and whether they are included and indexed by some key databases or not. Then,based on such an analysis,the reasons of such predatory conferences’ as well as their harms are pointed out,and some countermeasures are put forward.