I thought this was a joke at first.

I’m not sure how insane this will come across to non-engineers, but IEEE is basically the most well-known electrical engineering society, and some of their journals/conferences are the premier venues in their fields (outside of publishing in like, Nature). The context of the comment is a post about a bunch of IEEE conference papers being retracted due to links to paper mills. submitted by /u/mildlyhorrifying [link] [comments]