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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First!!

[Anonymous Coward]

OMG! My first first!!

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:Bad Feeling

[causality]

But I can't be a "sick boy" because Dr. Causality has learnt us that there ain't no such thang as the Restless Legs.

You mean me, the same Causality who went out of his way to explain that he is not a doctor and that what he said is his personal opinion? You mean the same Causality who has said that there are some legitimate cases, that there is such a thing as the exceptions proving the rule? You mean that one?

Do you not see the desperation of your position that you are now resorting to a gross misrepresentation of what I said in order to justify your anger towards me? You really don't see what's wrong with that, do you?

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.