Online-Based Approaches to Identify Real Journals and Publishers from Hijacked Ones

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• 作者：Amin Asadi ; Nader Rahbar ; Meisam Asadi ; Fahime Asadi230
• 关键词：Hijacked journals ; Fake publishers ; Open ; access ; Scientific journals
• 刊名：Science and Engineering Ethics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：23
• 期：1
• 页码：305-308
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• 刊物主题：Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Engineering, general; Biomedical Engineering; Medicine/Public Health, general; Philosophy, general;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1471-5546
• 卷排序：23

文摘

The aim of the present paper was to introduce some online-based approaches to evaluate scientific journals and publishers and to differentiate them from the hijacked ones, regardless of their disciplines. With the advent of open-access journals, many hijacked journals and publishers have deceitfully assumed the mantle of authenticity in order to take advantage of researchers and students. Although these hijacked journals and publishers can be identified through checking their advertisement techniques and their websites, these ways do not always result in their identification. There exist certain online-based approaches, such as using Master Journal List provided by Thomson Reuters, and Scopus database, and using the DOI of a paper, to certify the realness of a journal or publisher. It is indispensable that inexperienced students and researchers know these methods so as to identify hijacked journals and publishers with a higher level of probability.