Failed to understand "Scientific publishing, meet cybercrime"

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Does it mean "scientific publishing has falled victim to cyberdcrime"?
Most likely. does it mean "scientific publishing has encountered cybercrime."
In that case, "meet" should be "meets."

Context:
Sham journals scam authors
Con artists are stealing the identities of real journals to cheat scientists out of publishing fees.

Declan Butler 27 March 2013

Scientific publishing, meet cybercrime. Two reputable European science journals have fallen prey to identity theft by criminals who have created counterfeit journal websites. These online doppelgängers have duped hundreds of researchers into paying author fees, with the ill-won gains being funnelled to Armenia.

More:
http://www.nature.com/news/sham-journals-scam-authors-1.12681

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@oristarA,

I would use "meet". "Meet cybercrime" is an imperative. A command.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

I would use "meet". "Meet cybercrime" is an imperative. A command.

Thank you Roger.
Does it mean "scientific publishing has encountered cybercrime"?

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@oristarA,

Yes. They have encountered it, and been taken advantage of by it.

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It means that, yes, more or less, but grammatically it is like, if you were to meet Roger someplace, I would introduce you by saying, "oristar, meet Roger". It is a metaphorical meeting, when scientific publishing is confronted by cybercrime.

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@MontereyJack,

That's better.

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