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A '''hijacked journal''' is a legitimate [[academic journal]] that offers print-only access, for which a bogus website has been created by a malicious third party for the purpose of fraudulently offering academics the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee. The association of the faked website with a legitimate print journal makes this scam particularly effective. |
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'''About hijacked journals:''' |
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==Background== |
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Academic researchers need to publish the research findings in peer-reviewed journals. The peer reviewed journals may publish the articles for free, however, some of them use open access publishing model in which the author pays the publication fee. However, some |
Academic researchers need to publish the research findings in peer-reviewed journals. The peer reviewed journals may publish the articles for free, however, some of them use open access publishing model in which the author pays the publication fee. However, some [[predatory open-access publishing|predatory journal]]s publish all submitted manuscripts without performing standard review process.<ref> |
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{{cite journal |
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|first=J|last=Beall |
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|title=Predatory publishers are corrupting open access |
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|journal=Nature |
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|year=2012 |
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|volume=489|issue=7415|page=179 |
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|doi=10.1038/489179a |
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}}</ref> |
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From 2012, online hackers and website hijackers focused on a new job: |
From 2012, online hackers and website hijackers focused on a new job: hijacking the print only journals by registering a domain name and creating a fake website under the title of hijacked journals.<ref> |
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{{cite journal |
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|url=http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/1004 |
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|title=Hijacked Journals and Predatory Publishers: Is There a Need to Re-Think How to Assess the Quality of Academic Research? |
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|journal=Walailak Journal of Science and Technology |
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|year=2014 |
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|volume=11|number=5|pages=389-94 |
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|first1=Mehrdad|last1=Jalalian |
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|first2=Hamidreza|last2=Mahboobi |
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}}</ref> |
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The journal hijackers began |
The journal hijackers began by creating counterfeit websites for a Switzerland journal using the title "Archives des sciences". They continued in 2012 and 2013 by hijacking more than 20 scientific journals.<ref>{{cite doi|10.1038/495421a}}</ref> |
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The hijackers send a huge number of call-for-paper spams to lecturers and postgraduate students all around the world and offer to publish their articles rapidly if they pay a few hundreds dollar publication fee to the journal; actually the fake website of the hijacked journal, not to the legitimate journal. |
The hijackers send a huge number of call-for-paper spams to lecturers and postgraduate students all around the world and offer to publish their articles rapidly if they pay a few hundreds dollar publication fee to the journal; actually the fake website of the hijacked journal, not to the legitimate journal.<ref> |
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{{cite news |
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|first=G|last=Kolata |
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|title=Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too) |
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|work=[[The New York Times]] |
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|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |
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|date=7 April 2013 |
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}}</ref>{{fv|date=June 2014}} |
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==The hijacked journal list== |
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Iranian journalist Mehrdad Jalalian has created a hijacked journal list (similar to [[Jeffrey Beall|Beall's List]] of predatory journals).<ref> |
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'''The threat to the science by journal hijacking:''' |
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{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.mehrdadjalalian.com/index.php/list-of-hijacked-journals-and-fake-publishers/30-hiajcked-journal-list-2014-first-edition-june-2014 |
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Publishing the unreviewed articles in fake websites and hijacked journals is a significant threat to the academic research, the academia itself, the scientists, and the ethics of publication. |
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|title=List of hijacked journals and faked publishers |
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|publisher=Mehrdad Jalalian |
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}}</ref> |
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'''Informing the academia about the hijacked journals, the hijacked journal list:''' |
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A good idea in protecting the academia from being cheated by journal hijackers and avoiding them from hijacked journals and fake publishers is that they be notified by the update news on the list of hijacked journals. A sample of the hijacked journal list is the one that is developed by Mehrdad Jalalian (An academic journalist from Iran) or the hijacked journal list that is maintained by Jeffrey Beall (A professor and librarian from United States). <ref> Hijacked journal list; List of hijacked journals and fake publishers. Available from: http://www.mehrdadjalalian.com/index.php/list-of-hijacked-journals-and-fake-publishers/30-hiajcked-journal-list-2014-first-edition-june-2014</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 13:47, 20 June 2014
A hijacked journal is a legitimate academic journal that offers print-only access, for which a bogus website has been created by a malicious third party for the purpose of fraudulently offering academics the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee. The association of the faked website with a legitimate print journal makes this scam particularly effective.
Background
Academic researchers need to publish the research findings in peer-reviewed journals. The peer reviewed journals may publish the articles for free, however, some of them use open access publishing model in which the author pays the publication fee. However, some predatory journals publish all submitted manuscripts without performing standard review process.[1]
From 2012, online hackers and website hijackers focused on a new job: hijacking the print only journals by registering a domain name and creating a fake website under the title of hijacked journals.[2]
The journal hijackers began by creating counterfeit websites for a Switzerland journal using the title "Archives des sciences". They continued in 2012 and 2013 by hijacking more than 20 scientific journals.[3]
The hijackers send a huge number of call-for-paper spams to lecturers and postgraduate students all around the world and offer to publish their articles rapidly if they pay a few hundreds dollar publication fee to the journal; actually the fake website of the hijacked journal, not to the legitimate journal.[4][failed verification]
The hijacked journal list
Iranian journalist Mehrdad Jalalian has created a hijacked journal list (similar to Beall's List of predatory journals).[5]
References
- ^ Beall, J (2012). "Predatory publishers are corrupting open access". Nature. 489 (7415): 179. doi:10.1038/489179a.
- ^ 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): 389–94.
- ^ Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1038/495421a, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with
|doi=10.1038/495421ainstead. - ^ Kolata, G (7 April 2013). "Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)". The New York Times.
- ^ "List of hijacked journals and faked publishers". Mehrdad Jalalian.