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[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/293779-take-it-from-me-ther...
"And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef...
> When registering a new publication and its references at Crossref, a publisher may sneak extra undue references in the metadata sent in addition to the ones originally present. Then, digital libraries (e.g., SpringerLink) and bibliometric platforms (e.g., Dimensions) harvest these metadata, undue citations included. These sneaked references are processed and counted even if they are not present in the original publication.
The three journals in this particular case are all published by Technoscience Academy, an OA publisher operating out of India (not one of the well-known ones). I would think twice as an author before I submitted to any journal from this publisher, lest my paper is abused for manipulations like this (although I'm not sure if it has any journals worth submitting to anyway).
NB (because I got confused first): This is not really about Hindawi. Hindawi published the (trash) article that these fake citations were pumping up, but the pumping-up happened using Technoscience Academy journals.
Ask all the younger Greeks that had to leave their country and come over to Germany what they think about their Internet.
Ask how many of them have a home-based job in the UK, Denmark or Germany, but feel they can not go back simply because they don't have a minimally decent internet infrastructure to be doing fully remote work.
Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season.
Of course, it's not the only thing that is lacking in Greece. But I can guarantee you that is one of the things that is holding it back.
Maybe instead they should look into making their hotels into "doctor house", or "teacher house" or generally "something affordable by public workers" so that people who move to the island to do their job can have a reasonable life without competing with north EU nomads for living space.
The compound in the gel that attaches itself to the DNA particles and makes it so we can visualise the results by UV fluorescence is Ethidium Bromide [1], one of the lower state Bromine salts the article mentions.
The way the electrophoresis gels are (were, by me and the other workers) prepared is by... microwaving a flask with it in. Repeatedly taking it out as it gets hotter to mix it. Usually involving some release of steam. Which includes a small amount of the bromide. Fine in small doses, but when you do it multiple times a day, 5 days a week, 45 weeks of the year...
To this day I wonder how much of an effect it's going to have on me and my colleagues at the time.