(2 Feb 2026) A cloud-computing architect at German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, who is based in Raeren, Belgium, created Aletheia-Probe while he was helping his colleagues to write a review paper on energy management. He needed to evaluate more than 350 papers. “I will not do this manually,” he recalls thinking. Like any good software…
(18 Jul 2024) Predatory conferences, akin to predatory journals, often lack proper peer review and are primarily profit-driven. They are characterized by deceptive practices, such as listing speakers who are unaware of the event or collecting registration fees for conferences that do not occur. Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an…
(15 Sep 2022) Predatory academic conferences are more common than you may think. Even as of 2017, there were reportedly more such conferences available to scientific researchers than there were genuine events held by scholarly groups that follow standard peer review processes. In a recent study conducted over a 2-year period by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), of more than…
(March 2022) InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) is a global network of over 140 science, engineering and medical academies that work together to support the role of science in seeking solutions to the world’s most challenging problems. In 2020, IAP launched a two-year study on Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences, generously funded by The Gordon and…