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Ambiguous,Predatory or Simply Bogus?How does this affect you?
55th ICCA Congress
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What is ICCA?“ICCA is the global community and knowledge hub for the international association meetings industry. ICCA represents the main specialists in organising, transporting and accommodating international meetings and events.”
This is why rotating and recurring international association meetings is so important to all of us.
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Case study # 1Meeting names:
Museums of The Web Conference (MW)Museums of The Web Asia Conference (MWA)
Organiser: Museum and The Web703 Dale DriveSilver Spring MD 20910 [email protected]
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Conference name: MW2017 Cleveland 2003 Charlotte2016 Los Angeles 2002 Boston2017 Chicago 2001 Seattle2018 Baltimore 2000 Minneapolis2019 Portland 1999 New Orleans2020 San Diego 1998 Toronto2021 Philadelphia 1997 Los Angeles2022 Denver2023 Indianapolis2024 Quebec2025 San Francisco2026 New Mexico2005 Vancouver2004 Arlington
The meeting rotates between two countries. So it doesn’t meet the ICCA criteria.
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Conference name: MWA2015 Melbourne2016 Daejeon2017 Hong Kong & Beijing2018 Hong Kong
The meeting rotates between more than 3 countries and have more than 50 delegates.
Does it meet the ICCA criteria?
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Museum and the Web
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Founded by A&MI
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1. Are they an “Association”?
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2. Would you consider giving support to these meetings?
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Case study # 2The guessing game?
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Which is Which?
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Which is Which?
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Which is Which?
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Which is Which?
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Which is Which?
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Case study # 23rd Annual World Congress of Orthopaedics-2016, Korea10th Annual World Cancer Congress – 2016, Shanghai…….and hundreds more……
Organiser: BIT LifesciencesEast Area, F11, Building 1, Dalian Ascendas IT Park, 1 Hui Xian Yuan, Dalian Hi-tech Industrial Zone, China
Tel: +0086-411-84799609francis@bitlifesciences.comwww.bitlifesciences.com
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BIT Lifesciences
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Association or PCO?
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What does the scientific community say?
Confused?
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Wikipedia says...
[3] Meetings That Flatter, but May Not DeliverJon CohenScience 04 Oct 2013:Vol. 342, Issue 6154, pp. 76-77DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6154.76
Summary"Predatory" conferences may have a pernicious effect on scientific discourse, critics warn, as some papers published in proceedings of these conferences may not be valid science.
[2] Walter Wolf, Scientist Community: Dear Colleagues:\n\nI get at least 2 "invitations" for such conferences on a weekly basis. I never respond. I would only consider if an invitation were to come from one of the recognized and established societies, or if were to come from a scientist I know personally and he/she contacts me directly with full details.
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Burning question:Do you think these meetings are good or not?
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Burning question:Would you accept them into ICCA’s membership?
If yes, how do you think they would use the Database?
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Do you want to be part of this?
Predatory Publishing can go toPredatory Meetings!
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Thank you.
Noor Ahmad HamidRegional Director Asia Pacific