More Fake Journals From Elsevier

daemonburrito writes "Last week, we learned about Elsevier publishing a bogus journal for Merck. Now, several librarians say that they have uncovered an entire imprint of 'advertorial' publications. Excerpta Medica, a 'strategic medical communications agency,' is an Elsevier division. Along with the now infamous Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, it published a number of other 'journals.' Elsevier CEO Michael Hansen now admits that at least six fake journals were published for pharmaceutical companies."

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Google

[TheLink]

Google seems to think elsevier is OK too (despite google's rules).

AFAIK Google has a rule where a website is not allowed to give Google's spiders a different page from what normal users would get.

I often see google search results linking to elsevier (or other journal) pages, with relevant keywords and text in them, however if you click on the link you get a page that doesn't have the same info. Such search results are not useful to me - in fact they get in the way of more useful results.

BMW got smacked down by Google for doing something similar.

Re:Bad Feeling

[clang_jangle]

You seem to be proving my theory, based on observation, that "high strung people get jimmy legs". Cut back on the caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, refined sugar, and take a medtitation class.
Dickwad, LOL. (sorry, couldn't resist...:)

Re:How I found out about it... (with Simpsons ref)

[artor3]

Just a minor point, but while many journals are published by the IEEE, the Spectrum is just a magazine (not a professional journal) published by the same organization. It is primarily for entertainment, albeit of an educational and informative sort.