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		h0cked on Dec 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fa... I used to think if it's IEEE or ACM, they are ok (not good) to publish. Nowadays, I am not so sure after seeing a bunch of low quality "international" conferences in Asian especially in India. ACM seems a little better than IEEE... Now my rule is to only publish in conferences that I know or are well known in the field.... Aslo reject any requests to serve as a TPC or reviewer for conferences from this region..The papers are normally low quality and waste of my time to read...

microarchitect on Dec 30, 2013 [–]

You have way too much time on your hands if you are considering review requests from people you don't know.

h0cked on Dec 30, 2013 | [–]

I don't, but I do review papers for people that I don't know if they have a good reputation.

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