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This is very true, and actually the rabbit hole on this is quite deep. Ashu is actually involved with another guy, Hamid Arabnia, and these two have been hosting an "Academic" conference over the course of the past decade that is noted for allowing research that should not have passed peer review. A key quote here is as follows:
"The issue with WORLDCOMP is that it has no reviews for the submitted
papers. It is the reason why several fake papers were published in
WORLDCOMP. Rather than addressing this matter, Jonathan Bishop is
raising unrelated issues and trying to sideline the issue. If Jonathan
Bishop or Hamid Arabnia or Ashu Solo have any moral or ethical or
professional values, we challenge them to produce all the reviews (after
masking the personal details) and the reviewers' details for all the
WORLDCOMP papers for all these years (we know that they cannot because
there are no reviews or reviewers).
Jonathan Bishop's goal is to somehow convince the researchers to
mobilize paper submissions to WORLDCOMP and receive his share of money
(registration fee) out of that. We think most of the researchers are
mature enough to understand on what is going on with WORLDCOMP and these
crooks."
It is not unreasonable to request the record of peer review and to duck other people trying to audit and check that it is happening calls into question WORLDCOMP's validity as a reputable scholarly institution. That would be if they were reputable to beginwith
WORLDCOMP, Ashu Solo and Jonathan Bishop. David Harrison also makes the allegation that WORLDCOMP is responsible for spam emails, harassing phonecalls to researchers and publishing research without going through the process of peer review.
http://archive.is/94pMm
WORLDCOMP is still a thing and even hosted a conference last year
http://archive.is/xhVCS
With WORLDCOMP, Ashu is officially noted as the "Publicity Chair'; a dubious title for an institution focused on scholarly advancement.
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There are a number of websites purporting information about WORLDCOMP, with interesting information. They make a number of interesting claims. It is important to note that there is an entire industry that hack researchers and fledgling professors rely on because of the "publish-or-perish" paradigm which exists in academia. There are other implications of this paradigm but they aren't important here.
A researcher, Dr. John Levine actually received threats from Ashu because he outted this scandal.
Another Researcher Ralf Lammel also outted them on twitter and were emailed asking for offending material to be removed. Lammel changed his posts several times, and was asked to change them again and again. He finally sent out a request for any WORLDCOMP reviewer to reach out to him.
Here is the Email exchange and twitter postings
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http://professor-fish.blogspot.de/2013/05/a-note-on-bogusfake-conferences.html
Another site details the publication of fake papers which were published by Arabnia and Solo
http://archive.is/T0HFd
If you read through, you see the description of how they are fake and the actual papers, as referenced to the WORLDCOMP conference proceedings publication, linking these papers to the conference.
DEFAMATION and the cancellation of WORLDCOMP '13
The 2013 conference was cancelled because of heat from academics coming down on their heads.
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http://archive.is/rnR1p
There is so much more to this but I don't have time right now.
All this would explain why Jonathan Bishop has such a hate-boner for Retraction Watch, which he slagged on Crocels News several times.