<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:37 PM, David Johnston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dj@deadhat.com" target="_blank">dj@deadhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I got this in my email from a spammer of academic-ish papers calling itself Academic.edu.<br>
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/t/WHDTb/9417775/CRYPTANALYSIS_OF_KEY_EXCHANGE_METHOD_USING_COMPUTATIONAL_INTELLIGENCE_GUIDED_MULTILAYER_PERCEPTRON_IN_WIRELESS_COMMUNICATION_CKEMLP_" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/t/<u></u>WHDTb/9417775/CRYPTANALYSIS_<u></u>OF_KEY_EXCHANGE_METHOD_USING_<u></u>COMPUTATIONAL_INTELLIGENCE_<u></u>GUIDED_MULTILAYER_PERCEPTRON_<u></u>IN_WIRELESS_COMMUNICATION_<u></u>CKEMLP_</a><br>
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I think we've already touched on non crypto journals publishing crypto papers with no ability to review them cogently.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wouldn't call this a journal in the way the term is commonly understood among academics. No self-respecting journal would ever accept a paper where most of the references are other "papers" by the authors.</div><div><br></div><div>/ji</div></div></div></div>