Fraud in Academic Publishing: Researchers Under Cyber-Attacks

Dadkhah, Mehdi; Borchardt, Glenn; Maliszewski, Tomasz

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.08.030

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“…The AQCJ website is down, but it can be accessed through the Internet archive up to 23 June 2020 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200623200253/ http://www.aqcj.org/index.html); it offers very little information, the English level is poor, and an "Impact Factor" is advertised. The particular AQCJ Impact Factor is mentioned by Xia and Smith (2018) as an alternative "tailored to poor publishing practice, with many irreproducible measures", and by Dadkhah et al (2017) on their "List of Misleading Metrics".…”

Section: Predmeti I Sadržaji Izvan Uobičajenihmentioning

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Predatory Journals: How Far Can They Go? An In-Depth Look at the Outliers = Grabežljivi časopisi: koliko daleko mogu ići? Temeljita analiza vrijednosti

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2021

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For over a decade, predatory publishers, journals and conferences have continuously menaced the research community, preying on its resources, and diminishing the general trust in science, becoming an important research topic. Previous studies have focused on identifying their characteristics, in order to increase the academic awareness and help researchers not becoming a prey. At the same time, predatory publishers diversified their strategies; the academic community developed disparate reactions, which determined more and diverse predatory strategies, aimed at luring and deceiving the scientists. While the process is still ongoing, the present research is aimed at exposing the most extreme predation strategies, in an effort to make the line separating honest and predatory journals more traceable. The analysis of relevant samples focuses on the language issue, based on the hypothesis according to which the predatory publishers are located in countries where English is rarely spoken. The findings, including inventing English names, advertisements making no sense for the Western world, lack of quality control and a poor graphic language, confirm the hypothesis, and are also able to stand at the core of possible guidelines for exposing predatory publishers based on specific features of their calls. = Više od deset godina, grabežljivi izdavači, časopisi i konferencije kontinuirano su ugrožavali istraživačku zajednicu, loveći njene resurse i umanjujući opće povjerenje u nauku, postajući važna istraživačka tema. Prethodne studije bile su usredotočene na identificiranje njihovih karakteristika, kako bi se povećala akademska svijest i pomoglo istraživačima da ne postanu plijen. Istodobno, grabežljivi izdavači diverzificirali su svoje strategije; akademska zajednica razvila je različite reakcije, koje su odredile više i raznovrsnije predatorske strategije, usmjerene na mamljenje i obmanjivanje naučnika. Iako je postupak još uvijek u toku, ovo je istraživanje usmjereno na izlaganje najekstremnijih strategija grabežljivosti, nastojeći da linija koja razdvaja poštene i grabežljive časopise postane sljedivija. Analiza relevantnih studija slučaja usredotočena je na jezičko pitanje, zasnovano na hipotezi prema kojoj se izdavači nalaze u zemljama u kojima se engleski jezik rijetko govori. Nalazi, uključujući izmišljanje engleskih imena, reklame koje nemaju smisla za zapadni svijet, nedostatak kontrole kvaliteta i loš grafički jezik, potvrđuju hipotezu i takođe mogu stajati u srži mogućih smjernica za izlaganje predatorskih izdavača na osnovu specifičnih karakteristika njihovih poziva.

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Section: Predmeti I Sadržaji Izvan Uobičajenihmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predatory Journals: How Far Can They Go? An In-Depth Look at the Outliers = Grabežljivi časopisi: koliko daleko mogu ići? Temeljita analiza vrijednosti

Petrişor

2021

Bosniaca

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“…Falsos factores de impacto: son revistas que se hacen ver con factor de impacto, y cobran gran cantidad de dinero para publicar en sus plataformas (Jalalian y Mahboobi, 2014). En el mercado existen empresas de indexación falsas, que por una cantidad económica clasifican y asignan factores de impacto a las revistas con un método poco claro (Dadkhah et al, 2017).…”

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La estafa académica: fraude en las publicaciones científicas

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El fraude en las publicaciones de origen científico es una práctica que ha tomado fuerza a partir del desarrollo de revistas electrónicas y de acceso abierto en Internet. La combinación de estas prácticas deshonestas, y la presión por publicar a la que están sometidos los investigadores bajo la premisa de «publicar o perecer», puede poner en riesgo su imagen y credibilidad. En esta situación se pueden ver involucrados tanto investigadores como académicos, comités editoriales, evaluadores de revistas y correctores de estilo. El objetivo del presente artículo es exponer las características de las principales prácticas fraudulentas en el proceso de publicación de artículos científicos. Algunas formas que se describen son: revistas depredadoras y secuestradas, prácticas fraudulentas en el proceso de evaluación de artículos sometidos a arbitraje y falsa productividad científica. Se considera importante señalar que los autores tienen una gran responsabilidad respecto a sus propios escritos, por lo cual se aconseja revisar la idoneidad y los mínimos aceptables de las revistas donde pretenden publicar, y con ello evitar caer en la tentación de divulgar sus creaciones en medios fraudulentos que podrían afectar su prestigio como investigador. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54167/tecnociencia.v13i3.478

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“…'s article like universal impact factor, global impact factor, journal impact factor. 22 , 2 Uses non-reputable indexing such as Indian Science indexing or falsely claims to be indexed in legitimate services. 2 The number of articles in each issue is massive.…”

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How can emergency physicians protect their work in the era of pseudo publishing?

Günaydın

Doğan

2018

Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine

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Recently scientists have been targets of pseudo journals (fake, hijacked or predatory journals). These journals provide a low barrier to publication and quick publication times compared to high quality journals and exploit the pay-to-publish system in order to charge publication fees but they provide no formal peer-review. We aim to increase awareness among emergency physicians about pseudo journals.Trying to list all of fake, hijacked or predatory journals is not the solution because new journals are launched almost everyday and the fast proliferation of journals makes it difficult to identify and list all of them. Only an understanding of the practices and markers of legitimate and predatory publishers will allow the researcher to keep pace with danger because fraud is an ever-changing field.In this review we offer basic information (our top list of strategies and potential red flags) to recognize these journals to avoid submission and suggest some solutions if a paper has already been submitted or published in these journals.

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Fraud in Academic Publishing: Researchers Under Cyber-Attacks

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Predatory Journals: How Far Can They Go? An In-Depth Look at the Outliers = Grabežljivi časopisi: koliko daleko mogu ići? Temeljita analiza vrijednosti

Predatory Journals: How Far Can They Go? An In-Depth Look at the Outliers = Grabežljivi časopisi: koliko daleko mogu ići? Temeljita analiza vrijednosti

La estafa académica: fraude en las publicaciones científicas

How can emergency physicians protect their work in the era of pseudo publishing?

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