Journal hijacking
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)Journal hijacking refers to the
scholars the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee.[1][2][3] The term hijacked journal may refer to either the fraud[4] or the legitimate journal.[5] The fraudulent journals are also known as "clone journals".[6] Similar hijacking can occur with academic conferences.[2][7]
Background
In 2012,
cyber criminals began hijacking print-only journals by registering a domain name and creating a fake website under the title of the legitimate journals.[2]
The first journal to be hijacked was the Swiss journal scammers find their victims in conference proceedings, extracting authors' emails from papers and sending them fake calls for papers.[8]
There have also been instances of journal hijacking wherein hijackers take over the journal's existing domain name after the journal publisher neglects to pay the domain name registration fees on time.[3][9]
See also
- Category:Hijacked journals
- Confidence trick
- Passing off
- Predatory open access publishing
References
- ^ PMID 23538804.
- ^ a b c Jalalian, Mehrdad; Mahboobi, Hamidreza (2014). "Hijacked Journals and Predatory Publishers: Is There a Need to Re-Think How to Assess the Quality of Academic Research?". Walailak Journal of Science and Technology. 11 (5): 389–394.
- ^ a b McCook, Alison (19 November 2015). "Can journals get hijacked? Apparently, yes". Retraction Watch.
- PMID 27883329.
- ^ Menon, Varun G. (18 July 2018). "How are Predatory Publishers Preying on Uninformed Scholars? Don't Be a Victim". Online Educational Symposium Series. IGI Global.
- PMID 31939492.
- ^ Kolata, Gina (7 April 2013). "For Scientists, an Exploding World of Pseudo-Academia". The New York Times.
- ^ Dadkhah, Mehdi; Quliyeva, Aida (2015). "Social Engineering in Academic World". Journal of Contemporary Applied Mathematics. 4 (2): 3–5.
- .
Bibliography
- Jalalian, Mehrdad; Dadkhah, Mehdi (2015). "The full story of 90 hijacked journals from August 2011 to June 2015". Geographica Pannonica. 19 (2). Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES): 73–87. ISSN 0354-8724.
- Abalkina, Anna (21 June 2021). "Detecting a network of hijacked journals by its archive". Scientometrics. 126 (8). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 7123–7148. S2CID 230523913.
External links
- American librarian Jeffrey Beall's hijacked journal and authentic journal list
- Hijacked Journal Checker
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