[Postscript] Where are the Japanese universities that are the most contributed to overseas Esse Lapts?

There is a suspicious paper on the net.

The open access journal, which has been increasing recently, is an online art magazine that can be read for free.Until now, to read the artificial magazine, we had to pay a high subscription fee.However, the open access journal is not a reader, but a system in which contributed researchers pay.

Using this system, more and more vicious publishers are published as official academic papers if they pay money.There are some malicious cases, such as impersonating peoples and writing prominent researchers as editorial committees without permission.Such a publisher is called PREDATORY PUBLISHERS.

The reason why you contribute to such a place is that the background is different.Researchers who want to increase the number of papers to increase their evaluation, and startups (especially medical systems that are particularly tangled with the right of interest), which are collecting investments in crowdfunding, are also used.

In such a case, vulture publishers and researchers (or companies) can be said to be in accomplices and accomplices, but inexperienced researchers and emerging researchers are fooled by sweet words.In some cases, you will contribute.This has been a problem with universities and research institutions around the world for several years.

Jeffrey Beal, a librarian at Colorado University, is known for compiling a list of vulture publishers called "Beal's List".Scientific Research Publishing (Scirp), which has been listed there, is one of the most inferior publishers, but on that site, you can search for details of the paper that includes author information.

So where is the most contributed university in Japan?From the question, it was Professor Toshikazu Wada of Wakayama University who analyzed SCIRP data and raised the problem.And his ideas are supplemented with more accurate analysis data, and Mr. Okumura of the Nagoya University Space Earth Environment Research Institute.Here is the result of extracting from Okumura's data and ranking.

By the way, if you look at famous universities overseas, 57 Seika University (China), 40 Harvard University, 28 Stanford University, 23 Cambridge University, and 16 MITs.Even the most, the most, the largest in Kiyoka University is less than 69 in Nagoya University in Japan.

In any case, it seems certain that Japanese universities tend to contribute to suspicious artificial magazines compared to overseas universities.There seems to be a lot of debate, such as why that happened because the researcher's performance tends to be evaluated by numbers rather than the quality of the dissertation, or because young researchers have no literacy.

However, it may be like built a tower on the sand, no matter how many published papers have been added in places that are not properly reviewed.

(12/14 10:30 postscript)

Mr. Wada's idea and issues were raised, and in response to this, he published an article with insufficient explanations on Okumura's achievements, which performed highly accurate data analysis.We apologize for supplementing the article content.

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Source: Beal's List, memorandum of cosmic ray experiments