Warning: Another low-quality, profit-seeking conference organizer.
Here’s another mysterious, academic conference organizing company that I think everyone should avoid: Global Academic Network. It appears to be a for-profit company that exploits the need of researchers to present their work at conferences and exploits the need to take university-funded vacations.
The company lists offices in London and New York, but I doubt these are its real business locations. Its domain name registration may point to Cyprus or Poland:
Name: Michal Pleban
Organisation: Michau Enterprises, Limited
Language: en
Phone: +357.22761649
Fax: +357.22767543
Upcoming conferences to avoid.
They organize conferences in major cities, usually paying a university to let them hold the conference on their campus, then suggesting that the university may be a co-sponsor of the conference.
Indeed, the website has a scrolling bar with university logos, under the headline, “Our Global Partners”:
But do they know they are your partners?
The firm also displays a “logo farm” of emblems from many organizations. They include some legitimate companies, but they also include some fake impact factor companies:
Some good … some bad.
Registration for the congresses is $500, but there is a discount for early registration. The proceedings and abstracts are published on the website. The submission deadlines are routinely extended, and I have evidence that no real peer review is done on the submissions.
Global Academic Network is not really a network. It is a profit-seeking company that holds bottom-tier conferences in major world cities.
I recommend that researchers prefer conferences organized by legitimate scholarly societies. Global Academic Network is not transparent. It is a mystery company that appears to only want to make easy money from researchers.
