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Stinging the Predators: A collection of papers that should never have been published
This ebook collects academic papers and conference abstracts that were meant to be so terrible that nobody in their right mind would publish them. All were submitted to journals and conferences to expose weak or non-existent peer review and other exploitative practices. Each paper has a brief introduction. Short essays round out the collection.440 pages (version 24.1).Version 1.0 released 26 July 2017.Version 2.0 released 28 July 2017 (two new entries).Version 3.0 released 31 July 2017 (two new entries).Version 3.1 released 7 August 2017 (error corrected).Version 4.0 released 16 February 2018 (one new entry).Version 4.1 released 16 February 2018 (journal PDF replaced copied text).Version 5.0 released 4 July 2018 (one new entry).Version 6.0 released 26 July 2018 (one new entry).Version 6.1 released 28 July 2018 (journal PDF replaced copied text).Version 7.0 released 29 September 2018 (one new entry).Version 8.0 released 3 October 2018 (one new entry with three new papers).Version 8.1 released 4 October 2018 (one new paper added associated with v 8.0 entry; PDF bookmarks fixed).Version 8.2 released 7 October 2018 (expanded introduction associated with v 8.0 entry).Version 8.3 released 30 October 2018 (expanded introduction associated with v 8.0 entry; minor addition to earlier entries).Version 9.0 released 16 March 2019 (new entry).Version 10.0 released 7 April 2019 (new entry; minor update to previous entry).Version 11.0 released 31 March 2020 (two new entries; minor update to previous entry).Version 12.0 released 4 April 2020 (new entry; various minor updates to earlier entries, including updated link, corrected date, corrected name, etc.).Version 12.1 released 5 April 2020 (excerpts from hoaxed paper replaced with full PDF).Version 13.0 released 1 June 2020 (two new entries).Version 14.0 released 15 August 2020 (one new entry).Version 14.1 released 15 August 2020 (expanded newest entry).Version 15.0 released 16 August 2020 (one new entry).Version 16.0 released 26 December 2020 (one new entry).Version 17.0 released 12 January 2021 (one new entry; Introduction restored).Version 18.0 released 20 March 2021 (one new entry).Version 19.0 released 1 January 2022 (four new entries).Version 20.0 released 20 May 2022 (one new entry).Version 21.0 released 25 April 2023 (one new entry; one expanded entry).Version 22.0 released 16 January 2024 (one new entry; minor corrections).Version 23.0 released 11 November 2024 (one new entry).Version 24.0 released 18 May 2025 (two new entries).Version 24.1 released 23 May 2025 (two updated entries).Version 25.0 released 1 February 2026 (one new entry).
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