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To: Antanas Laurinčikas, Masaharu Tanemura, Robert Erdahl, Yuri Nesterenko, Yuri Matiyasevich
From: Alexander Magazinov (m***@yandex.ru)
12.09.2013, 16:25
Dear colleagues!
As far as I know, each of us has some relationship to the Fifth International Conference on Analytic Number Theory and Spatial Tessellations (September 16-20, 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine), being either a speaker, or a member of the Programme Committee, or both.
Today I have received the final programme. It is displayed here: http://www.fmi.npu.edu.ua/index.php/en/abstracts/118-voronoi-conf/abstracts/589-schedule
I was quite surprised when I saw the name Armen Bagdasaryan among the speakers, moreover, presenting two consequent talks. As far as I know, he does pseudoscience, but not science.
Some quick links. You can skip them for a while and then return back.
1. He serves as a member of editorial boards at a number of so called "predatory open-access journals" (this is a kind of publishing activity when an online journal publishes scientific-looking garbage for money; mostly pretending that there is a review process, while there is no any). For example:
http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jmr/about/editorialTeam
http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/ans/about/editorialTeam
http://bioinfopublication.org/journal.php?opt=azjou&jouid=BPJ0000285&detail=editorial
http://www.sciencedomain.org/editorial-board-members.php?id=6
All these publishers are listed as predatory by a reputable librarian Jeffrey Beall:
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
This page also links to the criteria for determining predatory publishers.
2. Google Scholar gives the following publications of A.Bagdasaryan:
http://scholar.google.ru/scholar?hl=ru&q=author%3A%22bagdasaryan+ag%22&btnG=
This list also includes some papers on Besov spaces written by another A.G. Bagdasaryan from Yerevan State Univ:
http://mathematics.asj-oa.am/view/creators/==0411==0430==0433==0434==0430==0441==0430==0440==044F==043D=3A==0410=2E_==0413=2E=3A=3A.html
As for the papers of "our" Bagdasaryan, there are some old papers on optimal control, but the recent papers are devoted solely to the analytic number theory. Here is my observations.
a) Some are conference proceedings. I cannot tell anything about the conferences except that they have an enormous registration fee. For example:
http://www.icnaam.org/registration.htm
b) A paper in Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 2010. Is it a mathematical jornal? Not at all. Are the reviewers competent enough in the theory of zeta-function? I doubt.
c) Papers refering to b), mostly in ArXiv. They also seem not to be properly reviewed.
c') The paper
http://icm2006.org/v_f/AbsDef/Posters/abs_0907.pdf
Rom Varshamov (indeed, the person who co-discovered the Hilbert-Varshamov inequality) died not later than 2000. Shortly before he published a book (reference [3]) where he claims the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for p>11. My guess is that Varshamov got a mental disease around 1990 - but I have no proofs.
d) A simple paper
http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0311
that seems to contribute nothing new to maths. Yet it is of no negative impact, besides it is published in a "predatory open-access" journal.
To conclude.
1) Were the abstracts by Armen Bagdasaryan reviewed by the Programme Committee? If yes, should they be considered once more after my remarks?
2) Is Armen Bagdasaryan a person who violates academic ethics? If yes, should this fact be accounted?
3) Will the participation in the Conference together with Bagdasaryan influence my reputation negatively? If yes, what is the way to deal with that?
I am not old and therefore I am very careful about my scientific reputation. So I ask you to consider this case seriously.
--
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Magazinov,
Grad. student,
Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS, Moscow
From: Alexander Magazinov (m***@yandex.ru)
12.09.2013, 16:25
Dear colleagues!
As far as I know, each of us has some relationship to the Fifth International Conference on Analytic Number Theory and Spatial Tessellations (September 16-20, 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine), being either a speaker, or a member of the Programme Committee, or both.
Today I have received the final programme. It is displayed here: http://www.fmi.npu.edu.ua/index.php/en/abstracts/118-voronoi-conf/abstracts/589-schedule
I was quite surprised when I saw the name Armen Bagdasaryan among the speakers, moreover, presenting two consequent talks. As far as I know, he does pseudoscience, but not science.
Some quick links. You can skip them for a while and then return back.
1. He serves as a member of editorial boards at a number of so called "predatory open-access journals" (this is a kind of publishing activity when an online journal publishes scientific-looking garbage for money; mostly pretending that there is a review process, while there is no any). For example:
http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jmr/about/editorialTeam
http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/ans/about/editorialTeam
http://bioinfopublication.org/journal.php?opt=azjou&jouid=BPJ0000285&detail=editorial
http://www.sciencedomain.org/editorial-board-members.php?id=6
All these publishers are listed as predatory by a reputable librarian Jeffrey Beall:
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
This page also links to the criteria for determining predatory publishers.
2. Google Scholar gives the following publications of A.Bagdasaryan:
http://scholar.google.ru/scholar?hl=ru&q=author%3A%22bagdasaryan+ag%22&btnG=
This list also includes some papers on Besov spaces written by another A.G. Bagdasaryan from Yerevan State Univ:
http://mathematics.asj-oa.am/view/creators/==0411==0430==0433==0434==0430==0441==0430==0440==044F==043D=3A==0410=2E_==0413=2E=3A=3A.html
As for the papers of "our" Bagdasaryan, there are some old papers on optimal control, but the recent papers are devoted solely to the analytic number theory. Here is my observations.
a) Some are conference proceedings. I cannot tell anything about the conferences except that they have an enormous registration fee. For example:
http://www.icnaam.org/registration.htm
b) A paper in Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 2010. Is it a mathematical jornal? Not at all. Are the reviewers competent enough in the theory of zeta-function? I doubt.
c) Papers refering to b), mostly in ArXiv. They also seem not to be properly reviewed.
c') The paper
http://icm2006.org/v_f/AbsDef/Posters/abs_0907.pdf
Rom Varshamov (indeed, the person who co-discovered the Hilbert-Varshamov inequality) died not later than 2000. Shortly before he published a book (reference [3]) where he claims the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for p>11. My guess is that Varshamov got a mental disease around 1990 - but I have no proofs.
d) A simple paper
http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0311
that seems to contribute nothing new to maths. Yet it is of no negative impact, besides it is published in a "predatory open-access" journal.
To conclude.
1) Were the abstracts by Armen Bagdasaryan reviewed by the Programme Committee? If yes, should they be considered once more after my remarks?
2) Is Armen Bagdasaryan a person who violates academic ethics? If yes, should this fact be accounted?
3) Will the participation in the Conference together with Bagdasaryan influence my reputation negatively? If yes, what is the way to deal with that?
I am not old and therefore I am very careful about my scientific reputation. So I ask you to consider this case seriously.
--
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Magazinov,
Grad. student,
Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS, Moscow