You never like to see this. A nonsense paper was submitted to The Open Information Science Journal (TOISCIJ), an Open Access journal that charges author fees. The paper was accepted and the authors asked to send in their money. The experiment casts Bentham Science Publishers in a poor light, as it appears that at the very least their peer review process is inconsistent, if not nonexistent. And, as the author points out, it raises the wider question of why authors are being charged and how the fees are being used. And, indeed, whether the it is the money itself that corrupts the system, whether or not the journal is open access.
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