World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
StatusActive
FounderCemal Ardil
Country of originTurkey
DistributionWorldwide
Publication typesOpen access journals
Nonfiction topicsScience, technology, and medicine
Official websitewww.waset.org

The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology or WASET is a predatory publisher of open access academic journals. The publisher has been listed as a "potential, possible, or probable" predatory publisher by American library scientist Jeffrey Beall[1] and is listed as such by the Max Planck Society[2] and Stop Predatory Journals.[3] WASET's estimated annual revenue in 2017 alone was over $4 million,[4][5] with other estimates ranging from $8.9 million to $11.9 million for the years 2014 to 2019 combined.[6]

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  2. ^ "Qualitätssicherung in der Wissenschaft". Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (in German). Max Planck Society. 2018-07-20. Archived from the original on 2018-07-24. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  3. ^ "List of Predatory Publishers". Stop Predatory Journals. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
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  6. ^ "How many conferences does WASET organise?". Predatory Journals and Conferences. 2021-03-07. Archived from the original on 2022-02-12. Retrieved 2021-06-19.