Predatory Journals Are Indexing in Reputed Databases: A Case Study of Unsolved Issues

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify the features of fraudulent journals. Fraudulent and clone journals wasted valuable manuscripts when scholars and authors publish their works in these journals. Fraud journals publish the articles without the reviewing process with a high rate of fee while the name and ISSN of clone journals are identical to the original journals. Purposive sampling technique and document analysis method had been used to conduct this research. Two clone versions and two fraud journals of the Scopus indexing journals had been selected for reviewing their articles. Based on the discussion of this study, the researcher found some characteristics of predatory/fraud/ clone journals that will help the scholars to avoid publishing on fake journals.

The Game: Predatory Journal vs. Scopus

“…The main aim of Predators is to make money from author payments. The worst of them falsify peer reviews and print anything for money (Hossan, 2020). This practice of enticing prey researchers to publish valid work in fake journals not only causes tremendous loss of funds and precious resources but also causes the loss of significant validated study that may have been a breakthrough in research progress (Masic, 2020;.…”