What is it like to attend a predatory conference?

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02358-w

TAKEAWAYS: The supposed 25th Global Nephrology, Urology and Kidney Failure Congress listed several “renowned speakers”.

A Nature reporter attended the event, and found it to be shambolic. It was facilitated by a PhD student, who said that she had been asked by e-mail just a couple of days beforehand to take on the extra, unpaid role of delivering a conference speech.

The number of predatory conferences continues to grow, and their organizers are swift to change their practices to evade detection. It's believed that ‘vulture conferences’, to use a Japanese term, are now more plentiful than legitimate ones.

A key reason that they persist is that “researchers, especially those eager to strengthen their publication records, are sometimes lured by the promise of subsequent publication indexed in reputable citation databases”, such as in conference proceedings or in journals published by the conference organizer... (MORE - missing details)
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