Fake Scientists on Editorial Boards Can Significantly Enhance the Visibility of Junk Journals

Abstract

Research evaluation metrics have been introduced in an attempt to conveniently “measure” the performance of scientists and research institutes without actually looking at the research work that is to be “measured.” As Barbour and Stell put it in their contribution to this volume (chapter 11), metrics are “attempts to measure the unmeasurable.” Some absurd consequences of these attempts have been d...