[AISWorld] Fwd: concerns about WSKS - Lytras' e-mails

[Roger Clarke]

At 11:18 -0400 15/9/11, Prashant Palvia wrote:
>  ... why don't you identify yourself fully?    That will add 
>credibility to your concerns. ...

Kathrin made assertions of fact, and pursued an argument based on them.

Kathrin's 'full identity', affiliation, occupation and locaton of 
residence are completely irrelevant to the credibility of the 
assertions and the argument.

Moreover, serious assertions like this require a meaningful response.

The behaviour described needs consideration in light of Items 5 and 6 
of the AIS Code of Research Conduct, at:
http://home.aisnet.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=15#Category_Two
5. Do not abuse the authority and responsibility you have been given 
as an editor, reviewer or supervisor, and ensure that personal 
relationships do not interfere with your judgement.  ...
6. Declare any material conflict of interest that might interfere 
with your ability to be objective and impartial when reviewing 
submissions, grant applications or software, and undertaking 
commissioned work. ...

AIS has a Research Conduct Committee, which can be contacted at:
researchconduct at aisnet.org

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With best regards,

Prashant Palvia, Ph.D.
Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kathrin Gruger <<mailto:kgruger at gmail.com>kgruger at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:09 AM
Subject: [AISWorld] concerns about WSKS - Lytras' e-mails
To: <mailto:aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>aisworld at lists.aisnet.org

Dear all,

Apologies for this broadcast e-mail, but I have to respond as I have 
been personally attacked by Miltiadis' e-mails.

Dear Miltiadis,

I congratulate you for all your publications, which I want to believe 
that you have achieved in more ethical ways that the ones that I have 
previously raised and they are still unanswered.

I cannot understand why my identity (affiliation, country, what else 
I do not know....) is the major issue and not the e-mail replies that 
I have experienced through my paper submission. I believe anyone 
could had been in my position (i.e. submitting a paper and getting 
such replies), unless if replies to paper submissions are 
differentiated depending on the identity of the person.

I am a real young person (even if I do not have a website)  that 
works and wants to work hard to hopefully  enter the academic world. 
I have nothing to prove and I do not work in the "police force"  to 
make scenarios and/or search of evidence of anything. I have simply 
raised an issue which I have confronted and the e-mails seemed 
standardized replies to paper submissions. 

The issue I raised referred to the exploitation of the special issues 
of academic journals for urging people to pay the registration fee at 
the 4rth WSKS conference.

Even if review processes are applied as you mentioned in your 
previous e-mails, my previous concerns are still valid and 
unanswered. Your e-mails guaranteed someone who pays (one or two) 
conference registration fees an (ISI) journal publication. If you 
were later going to apply review processes and quality standards, why 
this information was hidden and not mentioned?. By hiding this 
information, the e-mails are further more dishonest on what they 
promise.

I have been personally attacked, threaten and insulted by your 
e-mails; you presented and made me feel like a criminal because I 
informed the community for something I felt responsible of discussing 
with others.

I sincerely thank AISWORLD for giving me the opportunity to publicly 
raise these issues as well as the several academics for sending me 
informative and supporting e-mails to the above issue. I truly 
appreciate your feedback

Dear Miltiadis,

please delete my name and paper submission from your database. Thank 
you for your kind consideration to accept my paper for the conference 
and your publications, but  I do not wish to be part of the small 
group of academics and the activities that you lead.

I am happy to share/discuss the issue with anyone and hopefully 
someone from the scientific committee of the conference, who should 
probably have a better insight into the e-mail responses to my paper 
submission.

yours sincerely

Kathrin (a real person without a website. yes, people without a 
website do exist)


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