Hijacked journals, hijacked web-sites, journal phishing, misleading metrics, and predatory publishing: actual and potential threats to academic integrity and publishing ethics

Dadkhah, Mehdi; Maliszewski, Tomasz; Silva, Jaime A. Teixeira da

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“…More studies explored the threats of predatory journals. Dadkhah, Maliszewski, and da Silva (2016), for example, suggested that predatory journals represent a threat to scholarly integrity and academic publishing standards. Hence, the study indicated that there is a need to increase scholars' awareness of such journals.…”

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Where Arab social science and humanities scholars choose to publish: Falling in the predatory journals trap

Shehata

Elgllab

2018

Learned Publishing

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The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a study of publishing behaviour among a group of Arab scholars in social science and humanities disciplines. The paper also investigated the number of Arab scholars who are publishing in predatory journals and the reasons that drive them to select these journals to share their scholarly findings. The study adopted a mixed methods approach. Eighteen journals that were categorized as predatory journals were scanned to find the number of Arab scholars who published in them. Then, a questionnaire was sent to Egyptian and Saudi scholars as they were found to be the top Arab contributors in these journals. The questionnaire was followed by semi‐structured interviews to gain an in‐depth understanding of the publishing behaviour. The data showed that many Arab scholars prefer publishing in predatory journals as these journals are easier and faster. The results also indicate that there is a need to raise the awareness of the harm that predatory journals can cause to the scholars and how they can avoid these journals. This study was conducted with social science and humanities scholars in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The publishing behaviour may differ in other scholarly disciplines and other Arabic countries.

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Where Arab social science and humanities scholars choose to publish: Falling in the predatory journals trap

Shehata

Elgllab

2018

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“…8,9,13 It is fairly common these days to see one's email inbox being flooded with emails from various journal editors/publishers with suspect credentials, soliciting manuscripts. Ironically, many scholars become a party to the corrupt publication process despite having full knowledge of it, just to achieve the desired goal in their career in the shortest possible time.…”

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“…Similarly, there are a plethora of agencies ready to assign Impact Factors of questionable credibility at a fee. 8,9 Although the journal impact factor (JIF)…”

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“…However, increasing instances of reviewer, editorial and publisher fraud is a cause for distress for all those who wish to thrive in a genuine scientific milieu. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] One could have never imagined rigging of the peer review process! Now we have instances of journal editors being more interested in revenue generation and manipulating the entire citation process by selective publishing of articles, encouraging coercive citations and 'citation cartels' so as to artificially improve the Journal Impact Factor which would in turn attract more paying clientele authors in an Open Access (OA) format.…”

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“…Now we have instances of journal editors being more interested in revenue generation and manipulating the entire citation process by selective publishing of articles, encouraging coercive citations and 'citation cartels' so as to artificially improve the Journal Impact Factor which would in turn attract more paying clientele authors in an Open Access (OA) format. [6][7][8][9][10][11] 'Open Access' as a term, is misleading in its provenance, as someone has to pay the price. For commercial viability, either the reader pays or the author pays, so someone must!…”

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Scientific research and its subsequent publication in a peer reviewed journal (preferably) are essential components of professional development in the field of medicine. Scientists have endeavored over the centuries to impress their peers and leave their mark by sharing the results of their research. Anecdotal cases of scientific misconduct may have been a rarity in the past, rather than norm, which could also be attributed to a lack of wherewithal to detect such instances. However, the last decade has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the quantum of scientific publication with a proportionate increase in the incidence of scientific/publication misconduct.

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This study presents and explains the phenomenon of indexjacking, which involves the systematic infiltration of hijacked journals into international indexing databases, with Scopus being one of the most infiltrated among these databases. Through an analysis of known lists of hijacked journals, the study identified at least 67 hijacked journals that have penetrated Scopus since 2013. Of these, 33 journals indexed unauthorized content in Scopus and 23 compromised the homepage link in the journal's profile, while 11 did both. As of September 2023, 41 hijacked journals are still compromising the data of legitimate journals in Scopus. The presence of hijacked journals in Scopus is a challenge for scientific integrity due to the legitimization of unreliable papers that have not undergone peer review and compromises the quality of the Scopus database. The presence of hijacked journals in Scopus has far‐reaching effects. Papers published in these journals may be cited, and unauthorized content from these journals in Scopus is thus imported into other databases, including ORCID and the WHO COVID‐19 Research Database. This poses a particular challenge for research evaluation in those countries, where cloned versions of approved journals may be used to acquire publications and verifying their authenticity can be difficult.

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Hijacked journals, hijacked web-sites, journal phishing, misleading metrics, and predatory publishing: actual and potential threats to academic integrity and publishing ethics

Cited by 48 publications

References 18 publications

Where Arab social science and humanities scholars choose to publish: Falling in the predatory journals trap

Where Arab social science and humanities scholars choose to publish: Falling in the predatory journals trap

Changing paradigm in the scientific publication process: Are we encouraging Science or Pseudoscience? Urgent need for introspection and self regulation

Challenges posed by hijacked journals in Scopus

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