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The Source
Company blog · blog.cabells.comsciencebusiness
The Source is the company blog at blog.cabells.com, writing about science and business. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers cite this Cabells post as a source on predatory open-access journals, using it to flag a paper published in a journal from the SCIRP publisher.
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Insight from Cabells on the fight against predatory journals, innovative research, funding initiatives and more from the world of academic publishing.
What Hacker News says?
The physics paper has been published on a predatory 'open-access' journal, where basically you can pay to publish whatever (ref: https://blog.cabells.com/2021/07/07/no-signs-of-slowing/ , look for scirp). I gave a diagonal reading, it uses the right jargon somehow. They add some new components to the Einstein-Hilbert action they say originate from quantum complexity contributions, to be honest seems completely rando…
Comment linking /2021/07/07/no-signs-of-slowing/
on “Quadratic memory reductions for Zero-knowledge Proofs”Submitted How do you know you can trust a journal? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unmasking a Predator: Predatoryreports.org as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The top nine questions on predatory journals – answered! as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Counts for Rankings? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cabells’ top palpable points about predatory publishing practices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bringing Clarity to Academic Publishing as a story · 1 points
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