About an year ago, I intended to submit my article in International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2017). I Submitted the paper and got acceptance letter within a week. Despite being a young researcher I became curious about the originality of the conference. I consulted with my supervisor who told me about the fake Organization (WASET) which was replicating the original conferences with the same name as of famous conferences. Then I stopped any further conversation with the ICALT 2017, the fake one without submitting the conference fee and submitted the paper in Original conference. Today, I encountered that my article was published and was available on the web under WASET organization. I intend to submit the full version of the same paper to well reputed journal but curious to know the following points.
1. Can I withdraw the article published under WASET
2. Can I submit the full version of the same paper to an indexed journal.
3. If I can not submit this article to an original conference or journal what could I do with my hard earned research work which has been lost ?
Unfortunately, the Academy of Management Ethics Education Committee would suggest that you would be on dangerous ground to attempt to publish the same publication in multiple journals.
One way around that problem is to make a significant change in the paper and you could then submit the new paper to a different journal or conference.
You may wish to familiarize yourself with the Code of Ethics of the Academy of Management -- or your appropriate academic area, should you be a part of a difference academic field.
Good luck!
CC
I disagree with the above posts. My answers are
1. Yes
2. Yes.
3. Not applicable.
Write a covering letter to the real ICALT, explaining the situation.
As a finishing touch, insert a footnote in your paper noting that any other copies of your paper are illegitimate.
I think the two suggestions by Profs. Cam Caldwell and Ian Kennedy may be modified and act accordingly. It is a serious issue in the academic space. I have heard of such from a close colleague having such similar challenges.
The problem of course is that WASET will now not "unpublish" your paper from the Internet.
I am sure that your paper will benefit from an edit.
Sounds like more than one problem here. Like other advice, you should not attempt to publish the same (or similar) article more than once. But then there's the problem of WASET & how the whole situation actually took place -- ICALT is not usually associated with them & ICALT is a reputable event. It's surprising that WASET has survived so many years ... an interesting article at https://wasetwatch.wordpress.com/
Write a letter to WASET for withdrawing your article.
You can't send the same manuscript to another journal, but make some edit, it may be ok.
Dr. Caldwell gave excellent advice on this. Another thing to consider is this: It's hard to tell when a change to an article is significant enough to merit publishing it in another journal. This is not good ground to tread upon. I'd recommend moving on to a new topic.
Another angle is that WASET publications are not regarded by the upright universities as being a legitimate research output, and so should never appear in CV's. Nor should an upright researcher ever cite one any document in WASET, even though it might be found via Google Scholar.
You have missed the real ICALT 2017 deadline badly. You have until May 2 2018 to submit your camera ready paper for ICALT 18 which will be held "next door" at the IIT Bombay, Mumbai India, from Jul 9th(Mon) to Jul 13th(Fri) 2018. Stop reading ResearchGate for the next week, get a move on and get your paper submitted by Wednesday.
Forget the ill fated paper and move on. WASET should have more credibility concerns in this matter, and should not let such academic fraud continue to pass by their door.
Please do not publish the same article elsewhere. Your concept "FAKE" needs more clarification. At least you registered the paper before it was published.
I advice that you ensure that the published work is adequately withdrawn, at least with a notice from WASET and there after you can resubmit it again for consideration else where.
Please do not publish but request for withdrawal with adequate proof from WASET before the paper can be upgraded and if possible scaled up and rewritten for re submission to another Journal.
Did you sign any copy right transfer document to WASET? If not, I am wondering, how can they publish without your approval?
It is wonderful for them to publish your paper without you approval or consent. However, once the paper has been published it is an illegality to publish the same paper in another journal. The loss has to be borne.
You can't publish same article in different journal, I suggest you should stick to advice from Can Caldwell.
I agree, This is a fake Organization
I have one, if I can withdraw it or I can resubmit it, that is good
H.M. Ravindu T. Bandara Is this website a fake one?
https://waset.org/?
I'm in the same trouble too. I didn't sign the copyright transfer agreement. Hope I can still withdraw my article.
https://waset.org/conferences-in-may-2020-in-berlin so many of them they are organising at the same time...not realistic, for shore.
Waset conferences are everywhere on the internet, does it mean they're fake as I've applied seeking for sponsorship to attend one in San Francisco in June?
It seems that there is a mafia of creating fake conferences with the names of already established ones.
I requested WASET to remove my article from the conference. They did it within same day.
Beware of fake conferences, there are many of them. You need to check many things including their acceptace rate. Otherwise, you will wast your research effort.
@ Harsha Dulari,
You can contact them via your account---->message section.
If WASET is fake, how can you get the sponsorship from the university or wherever to attend? And what's actually mean of the "fake"? Does the conference occur or it's a scam? Then what is the real WASET website?
I want to know the difference of upload paper and blind paper in WASET journal web portal in authors tab?
Blind uploads do not carry your name, address or any of your credentials. Sometimes managers of conferences request authors to upload a blind copy alongside their main papers to avoid altering your already formatted paper by removing your credentials before sending to reviewers. I think the essence of this is to adhere strictly to their formating rules easily as this has to be done before submitting your paper for consideration in any of WASET conferences.
I didn't know that the WASET is a scam. I submitted only my abstract and got accepted. Now I don't want to proceed further. Is it ok ? or I need to write them to remove my profile and abstract.
I also got my abstract accepted. Kindly advise how it is fake? and how we can take the abstract back?
You can resubmit your article to a high impact journal provided the initial was a fake conference!
Hello Sabahat;
Same thing has recently happened to me. I submitted a paper to ICCEA 2021 at WASET, the paper has been accepted and published online in Int. Journal of Chemical and Materials Engineering. When I checked the journal on the web, I found out that there was no such journal. Then, I got suspicious and figured out that there was a spam. So, at the same day, I sent an email that I would like to withdraw the published the paper and remove any data from the system. However, I could not get any response. I wonder how your case was ended up? Did you solve the problem and get your paper out? Did you publish it anywhere else?
If you help me about how to solve it, I appreciate it.
Tlhere is good research in WASET periods, as well as bad work. In reputable magazines, sometimes there are bad works. The person meeting someone from the magazine may overlook bad work. That way, a reputable magazine can contain bad work. On the other hand, predatory magazines can contain good work.
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