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IEEE has a pseudoscience problem (electrical & electronics engineering) - C C - Mar 4, 2025
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/ieee-has-pseudoscience-problem.html
INTRO: The IEEE, full name Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is one of the main scientific publishers in domains related to its name. Many IEEE venues, such as ICSE in software engineering and IROS in robotics, are “top” venues that publish important research. While these are conferences and not journals, computer science and related fields are unusual in that conferences are typically the more prestigious option.
But as I’ve covered before in the case of another big computer science publisher, world-class research can coexist with world-class nonsense. Many not-so-top IEEE venues publish “AI gobbledegook sandwiches”, pointless papers that apply standard machine learning or artificial intelligence to basic data sets resulting in vague predictions supposedly improving on ill-defined baselines.
Unfortunately, bad science published by IEEE isn’t limited to boring applications of boring algorithms to boring data. In this blog post, I’ll present IEEE-published pseudoscience of various kinds, show how this correlates with other problems, and discuss why publishers don’t do enough about it... (MORE - details)