Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 19, 2012 @02:06AM from the stochastically-orthogonal-and-trivially-affine dept.

call -151 writes "Many years ago, a human-generated intentionally nonsense paper was accepted by the (prominent) literary culture journal Social Text. In August, a randomly-generated nonsense mathematics paper was accepted by one of the many low-tier 'open-access' research mathematics journals. The software Mathgen, which generated the accepted submission, takes as inputs author names (or those can be randomly selected also) and generates nicely TeX'd and impressive-sounding sentences which are grammatically correct but mathematically disconnected nonsense. This was reviewed by a human, (quickly, for math, in 12 days) and the reviewers' comments mention superficial problems with the submission (PDF). The references are also randomly-generated and rather hilarious. For those with concerns about submitting to lower-tier journals in an effort to promote open access, this is not a good sign!"

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Correlation != Causation by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-19 02:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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