World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology or WASET is a predatory publisher[1] of a number of open access journals on a wide variety of scientific and technical subjects. It claims to organize several thousands of scientific conferences a year, using names that are the same or similar to real conferences organized by established scientific groups, with planning 12 years in advance. Hundreds of conferences may be scheduled for the same location and same day (i.e. 313 conferences in a hotel in Berlin on the 12-13th September 2016). The conferences are low-quality and anyone can present a paper by simply paying the registration fee.[2]

The academy has been listed as a "potential, possible, or probable" predatory publisher[3] and also of arranging predatory conferences.[4] Indeed, one of their journals accepted an obviously fake article in a sting operation.[5]

WASET is based in Turkey and its domain name is registered in Azerbaijan.[6] It is run by Cemal Ardil, a former science teacher, with assistance from his daughter Ebru and his son Bora. Cemal Ardil is also the person who has published the most articles on the WASET website.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey. "Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference". Scholarly Open Access. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  2. ↑ Spears, Tom. "Science fiction? Why the long-cherished peer-review system is under attack". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Beall, Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers, Scholarly Open Access: Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing, dated 5 November 2013. Accessed 5 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (6 October 2015). "More Duplication of Journal Titles and Conference Names by Predatory Publishers". Scholarly Open Access. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  5. ↑ Bohannon, John. "Data and Documents". AAAS.
  6. ↑ "Azerbaijani "academy" fools a lot of scientists from around the world". Panorama. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  7. ↑ Kaplan, Sefa. "Parayı bastıranı profesör yapıyorlar". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2015-02-03.


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