''Procedia'' is an

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journal series published by

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. The purpose of ''Procedia'' is to publish, for a fee, "proposed

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" in a "dedicated online issue". Elsevier advertises this product as having a focus on delivering high quality content and maintains "Peer-review is under the responsibility of the conference organizers."

Controversy

Elsevier formerly published ''Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences'' in which authors were permitted to directly self-publish. The only requirements for publishing in this journal were to grant Elsevier exclusive publishing rights, to promise the paper would be peer reviewed at some point in the future and to promise the paper was their own original work and of course, pay the publishing fee. In 2011, Iranian political prisoner and mystic, Mohammad Ali Taheri, was sentenced to a five year prison sentence. Among his charges were "interfering in medical science" and "illegitimate use of academic titles". Many of his claims of medical research were published in ''Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences''. In 2017, it was discovered that a fake example reference listed on Elsevier's citation guide had been cited over 400 times in published articles. Over 90% of these citations occurred in ''Procedia'' journals. In 2018,

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was hit with a scandal in which high-ranking politicians had faked their academic credentials by publishing fraudulent articles in ''Procedia''.

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Controversy

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