Submitted a precious work into a predatory conference. I did not know that it is predatory until I attended it. I feel very bad that it caused a dirty spot in my track record. How to deal with this?
Valid concern. Ignore what people said above, especially if you are in a field where conferences do matter.
One question is, why did you end up submitting there? At which stage in your career are you? I could imagine an early PhD student falling for this kind of thing, but then again, your supervisor should be able to guide you away from those conferences.
As others have said, just keep it off and move on. But, I’m curious – if you attended what made you realize it was predatory? Were there others from your field you knew/ recognized there?
No one cares about a one-off when you have other, more impactful publications. Also, if you do some minimal SEO, your curated list of publications (from which you can conveniently omit the low-quality reference) will come up first in search engines.
Is not knowing the reputation of a journal or a conference some kind of science thing? Because in my field, you’re probably a member of the society that sponsors the conference, so you pretty much know about them well before you ever submit a proposal.
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Ignore, move on. What will happen? Who cares about conferences?
who cares. be more careful next time.
Are you worried you’re going to be scooped? I don’t understand your concern.
Valid concern. Ignore what people said above, especially if you are in a field where conferences do matter.
One question is, why did you end up submitting there? At which stage in your career are you? I could imagine an early PhD student falling for this kind of thing, but then again, your supervisor should be able to guide you away from those conferences.
I would… just leave it off my CV? Change the heading to ‘selected conferences’ if you don’t want to lie by omission.
As others have said, just keep it off and move on. But, I’m curious – if you attended what made you realize it was predatory? Were there others from your field you knew/ recognized there?
I’m curious, how did you know it was predatory when you attended? What was it like?
No one cares about a one-off when you have other, more impactful publications. Also, if you do some minimal SEO, your curated list of publications (from which you can conveniently omit the low-quality reference) will come up first in search engines.
What happened at the conference? Really curious
As orders are saying. You are bring unnecessarily hard on yourself. Nobody will care. Let it go and move on.
Just leave it off your CV.
Is not knowing the reputation of a journal or a conference some kind of science thing? Because in my field, you’re probably a member of the society that sponsors the conference, so you pretty much know about them well before you ever submit a proposal.