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  • [Rant] Springer sucks

    Posted on September 7th, 2009 Eric 1 comment

    First, LNCS is a place where 90% of the papers are not worth publishing. They are just the enemy of trees and the first cause of global warming in academia.

    Second, it does not support the bibtex format exporting. Who the hell wants your RIS format citation?

    For every citation from Springer, I have to spend 3 minutes in reformatting everything to a bibtex format. For those terrible papers I have to cite (some of the reviewers are so stupid, they force us to read a paper in LNCS, saying that our work would be complete without noticing some “significant” work published in a workshop held in the middle of no where in Europe by a group of unknown people. Come on, if you have some self-respect, you won’t want people to cite your own f* work published in a f* bad conference talking about a f* terrible idea without any intellectual merit], I have to write a script to change it from RIA format to bibtex. What should I waste time on these stupid things. All other publisher like ACM and IEEE (even Citeseer) supports the bibtex format.

    Shame on you, Springer, your LNCS sucks!

     

    One response to “[Rant] Springer sucks”

    1. Springer doesn’t suck. Many good journals are under their banner. But LNCS does suck! And it sucks very much!

      LNCS collects too many low-quality conferences, especially a lot conferences held in China. Those papers are write-only paper coz no one will read them.

      Eventually, for EECS people, ACM and IEEE paper database is enough…

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