Timeline for Got roped into (what I’m pretty sure is) a scam conference. What now?
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| May 10 at 15:12 | comment | added | xLeitix | The link also discusses the real concerns of having engaged with a spam conference: not so much plagiarism (the figures behind that model don't care to publish papers themselves), but you'll drown in spam invites for the foreseeable future since you have proven a soft target (sorry). | |
| May 10 at 15:08 | answer | added | Cem Kalyoncu | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 10 at 15:06 | comment | added | xLeitix | Here's an account of what may be waiting for you: technologynetworks.com/tn/articles/… (in short, probably a "real" conference, but an incredibly messy and uninstructive one) | |
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| May 9 at 14:32 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @DanielHatton I think the concern is that the work will enter an ecosystem of academic dishonesty and become more likely to be plagiarized - that someone running or attending a scam conference would have no qualms about stealing work that was submitted to it. I agree the risk is limited, though, as most of the eyes on the work will be from the other conference attendees, who are probably as innocent as the OP. | |
| May 9 at 13:37 | comment | added | stackoverblown | Where is your advisor during all these? Did you not ask him/her about the conference first? | |
| May 9 at 4:15 | answer | added | Amrita Bithi | timeline score: 4 | |
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| May 8 at 16:06 | comment | added | Flyto | If it is a scam, then the conference may not actually exist - you might show up and find bewildered / annoyed hotel staff. | |
| May 8 at 13:34 | answer | added | Allure | timeline score: 30 | |
| May 8 at 12:31 | comment | added | Daniel Hatton | I don't understand the concern about being plagiarised. Publication in the proceedings of a scam conference, or in a predatory journal, still establishes priority, no? | |
| May 8 at 12:21 | comment | added | Christian Hennig | OK but you could look for traces of their publications, also elsewhere. | |
| May 8 at 12:09 | comment | added | phd_curiouscat7 | @ChristianHennig Sorry, missed your previous comment! On the website they’ve published previous year’s presenters and paper titles. Also lots of photos. Promising, but it all feels slightly off | |
| May 8 at 12:07 | comment | added | phd_curiouscat7 | @ChristianHennig Hahah bet, I’ll update the thread with all the details if I end up deciding to go. But yeah, there are definitely easier, less elaborate ways of scamming people than this! (Or are there??) Anyways, just prayinggg they don’t take my research and run with it. I’m not sure how common it is but I’m still anxious about it. | |
| May 8 at 12:06 | comment | added | Christian Hennig | Can you find publications from previous conferences of them on the web, or even cited? You may well be right, but in that situation researching previous conferences by the same organisers may give you more information. | |
| May 8 at 12:02 | comment | added | Christian Hennig | If you go, afterwards please write about it here. I'm curious. Personally I wouldn't worry about plagiarism that much by the way (this is a much worse way to make much money with little effort than charging a too high fee). But then I'm not speaking from experience. | |
| May 8 at 12:01 | comment | added | phd_curiouscat7 | @ChristianHennig Hi! Thank you for your follow-up question / comments. I’ll try to address them all. It might certainly be the case of it being more a scummy conference than scam. I’ll write some details below, while keeping myself anonymous. (I’ve seen scummy conference organizers reply angrily to some forum complaints about them!) -the conference is titled “International Conference of the Humanities” -there are several conferences being organized by the same company under slightly different names, and all in big, important cities -the website has no information on who’s presenting | |
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| May 8 at 11:50 | comment | added | Christian Hennig | I don't know for sure, but I believe many of these may actually be at best "half scams" in the sense that somebody makes a lot of money not doing that much for it, however the actual conference may happen (i.e., organisers have at least organised something) including serious and proper scientific exchange among those who come, if probably not at a really high level. | |
| May 8 at 11:45 | comment | added | Christian Hennig | In my field a fee of $400 is for sure not unheard of, and of course I can't know how broad "literally everything" actually is. If it's just one field, say chemistry, it doesn't necessarily indicate a scam. How sure are you that this is actually a scam, and on what basis? | |
| May 8 at 11:43 | answer | added | BioBrains | timeline score: 18 | |
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