Hijacked journal

A hijacked journal is a legitimate academic journal that offers print-only access and 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.[1]

Background

In 2012, online hackers and website hijackers began 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 the Swiss journal Archives des Sciences. In 2012 and 2013 they hijacked more than 20 scientific journals.[1] In some case forgers find their victim in conferences, they extract authors emails from papers and send call for paper and cheat them.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Butler, Declan (27 March 2013). "Sham journals scam authors". Nature 495 (7442): 421–422. doi:10.1038/495421a.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Mehdi Dadkhah and Aida Quliyeva, “Social Engineering in Academic World”, Journal of Contemporary Applied Mathematics (Invited Paper), 4(2), pp. 3-5, 2015.

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