tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post7562001210587748355..comments2024-03-29T07:30:53.983+00:00Comments on BishopBlog: What is going on in Hindawi special issues?deevybeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118040887173718391noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-20682183504780358952022-11-26T00:55:04.127+00:002022-11-26T00:55:04.127+00:00If you observe the current published article most...If you observe the current published article most of them are special issues .<br /><br />On the other hand most normally submitted current papers review process have been taking more six month. Is this journal plans to stop publishing regular paper. If the review process take more than 6 months, why people submit their article to this journal (2500$ APC ).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-1046817085530986662022-11-02T23:12:31.489+00:002022-11-02T23:12:31.489+00:00Funny - the last paper in this special issue was a...Funny - the last paper in this special issue was accepted on October 12... the day this post was published.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-32365541792591160802022-10-18T13:40:27.415+01:002022-10-18T13:40:27.415+01:00Ah, the Special Issue business. I like to imagine ...Ah, the Special Issue business. I like to imagine Oprah "you get a SI to edit!" "and you get a SI!" <br />What I see from my naive academic colleagues is that they started to buy their own BS: guest editing for MDPI/Hindawi/Frontiers is their humble contribution to the field and to open access. Hint: it is not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-9144711087017850502022-10-15T19:23:12.073+01:002022-10-15T19:23:12.073+01:00The latter. Springer and Elsevier have also travel...The latter. Springer and Elsevier have also travelled similar routes. So have IEEE, ACM, IoP, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-83487014614943960772022-10-14T08:05:27.986+01:002022-10-14T08:05:27.986+01:00The Infinite Monkey Optimisation Algorithm doesn&#...The Infinite Monkey Optimisation Algorithm doesn't get enough attention.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-79603633614378742512022-10-13T18:14:14.957+01:002022-10-13T18:14:14.957+01:00I always thought Hindawi was a standard “predatory...I always thought Hindawi was a standard “predatory” journal and was amazed to see it affiliated somehow with Wiley. What’s gone on there? Has the Hindawi “leopard changed its spots”, or has Wiley dropped its guard in the pursuit of Open Access easy pickings?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-21288710834343327962022-10-13T12:24:09.868+01:002022-10-13T12:24:09.868+01:00Yes, I stupidly agreed to review a paper on sports...Yes, I stupidly agreed to review a paper on sports nutrition and ant colonies submitted to the special issue of ‘Explorations in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision for Industry 4.0’ In my naivety I thought it might be an investigation of human behaviour regarding sports nutrition choices compared to interactions seen in ant colonies. It turned out to be the gibberish produced by an infinite group of monkeys on typewriters. Any reasonable editor should have spotted that in a minute. I will never get those hours back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com