Discipline Computer science Edited by Rishi Asthana | Language English Publication history 2012–present | |
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Int. J. Adv. Comp. Technol. Publisher Research India Publications | ||
The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology is a publication which has been described as a predatory open access journal – a publication which has some of the surface attributes of a benign open access journal but is actually an exploitative and deceptive corruption of that model, operating as a disreputable vanity press with little scholarly value.
Publication controversy
In 2005, two scientists, David Mazières and Eddie Kohler, wrote a paper titled Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List and submitted it to WMSCI 2005 (the 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics), a conference then notorious for its spamming and lax standards for paper acceptance, in protest of same. The paper consisted essentially only of the sentence "Get me off your fucking mailing list" repeated many times.
In 2014, after receiving a spam email from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, Peter Vamplew forwarded Mazières' and Kohler's old paper as an acerbic response. To Vamplew's surprise, the paper was reviewed, rated as "excellent" by the journal's peer-review process and accepted for publication. The paper was not actually published as Vamplew declined to pay the required US$150 (equivalent to $184 in 2016) article processing charge. This case has led commenters to question the legitimacy of the journal as an authentic scholarly undertaking.