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Meta Academia
Meta Academia
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Q: Should we specify that questions where "expert" answers are from experts outside of academia are off-topic?

ff524Occasionally we get questions that are about the on-topic areas listed in the help center, but that are considered off-topic here because an expert answer to such a question would come from an expert in something else (not academia.) For example, Are Harvard-style open access policies lawful u...

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Fomite
Fomite
6:05 AM
@Ghost With respect, a well-recieved answer with a large chunk of up-votes seems to be an odd definition of not getting a warm reception. I at least found your answer interesting.
 
 
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Massimo Ortolano
Massimo Ortolano
2:42 PM
A quick search through IEEE Xplore reveals that almost 10000 notices of retraction of conference publications have been issued since 1998. Ouch! ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/…
 
 
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EnergyNumbers
EnergyNumbers
4:09 PM
@MassimoOrtolano You can get rid of a couple of false positives if you put "notice of retraction" in quotes. I see that the list of 9,685 papers only has an h-index of 5, and the highest-cited paper has only 7 cites (going by the IEEE-reported numbers), which I find somewhat heartening - the consequential damage is relatively limited.
 
 
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ff524
ff524
9:03 PM
I was just curious, given the recent discussion in here. It seems that as a rough approximation (ignoring issues with self-reported location data in profile, issues with geocoding, etc.) we are about as euro-centric as north america-centric:
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