Programme
Tue 26 Nov, HG01.060, 15.30-17.00 (first floor, central corridor – bring your own cup!)
Marianne Noël and her colleague Martin Chevallier are presenting their work on problematic conferences and problematic publishing.
15.30 Presentation: “Digging into counterfeit conferences. Exploring ‘dark continents’?” Marianne Noël
In the role of anthropologist, Marianne Noël has been visiting “predatory conferences” (she prefers the more precise term “counterfeit conferences”) to investigate and analyse what drives these meetings, how they generate income, or how they rely on both licit and illicit practices. A bewildering trip through hotel lobbies in European capitals and cruise ship panorama decks.
16.15 Presentation: “‘Cleaning’ the conference record: a publisher perspective”.
Martin Chevallier and Marianne Noël
What happened when French science publisher EDP was sold to Science Press Ltd and it started publishing dubious conference proceedings? An investigation of fake references, tortured phrases and an attempt to clean up.
About the speakers
Dr. Marianne Noël is researcher at LISIS (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés) and CNRS in Paris. She looks at transformations in knowledge production regimes and institutions in the field of chemistry, the academic discipline in which she started her career. Based on qualitative studies carried out in the context of international comparison, she analyses transformations in the academic field from the vantage point offered by the review process. She is a senior member of the ERC project NanoBubbles.
After graduation in history of science and technology at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (2018), and completion of his PhD in Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2023), Martin Chevallier worked as a research assistant to critically review the outcomes of IFRIS (Institute For Research and Innovation in Society) network, noticeably its contribution to structuring collective endeavours in the field of STS and innovation studies over the last twenty years, and a international in scope postdoctoral fellowship program.
Hosted by RROSA, the Institute for Science in Society, and project NanoBubbles (ERC Synergy grant 921393).
17.00 closing
