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A recent article in Nature magazine discusses the proliferation of meaningless scientific conferences. You might hear about Professor So-and-so, Engineer So-and-so, Researcher So-and-so, or Doctor So-and-so attending a conference, and you'd imagine they are important people participating in a prestigious scientific gathering. However, in reality, it’s just a business and a place for taking some photos without any valuable scientific content.
You often find someone posting a picture of themselves giving a lecture or standing with the conference logo in the background, while in fact, it’s just a gathering of repeated lectures that everyone is already familiar with. It’s an event held in an abandoned venue, attended by people who have nothing more important to do. The article states that the spread of this phenomenon and the associated business is driven by what's called conference tourism, along with some researchers or doctors seeking an opportunity to appear in public due to a lack of meaningful activity. They end up giving or listening to repetitive lectures with no new information.
This phenomenon has come to be known as parasitic conferences or fraudulent conferences.
You often find someone posting a picture of themselves giving a lecture or standing with the conference logo in the background, while in fact, it’s just a gathering of repeated lectures that everyone is already familiar with. It’s an event held in an abandoned venue, attended by people who have nothing more important to do. The article states that the spread of this phenomenon and the associated business is driven by what's called conference tourism, along with some researchers or doctors seeking an opportunity to appear in public due to a lack of meaningful activity. They end up giving or listening to repetitive lectures with no new information.
This phenomenon has come to be known as parasitic conferences or fraudulent conferences.