Fake Journals: Their Features and Some Viable Ways to Distinguishing Them
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Author list: Hemmat Esfe M., Wongwises S., Asadi A., Akbari M.
Publisher: Springer
Publication year: 2015
Journal: Science and Engineering Ethics (1353-3452)
Volume number: 21
Issue number: 4
Start page: 821
End page: 824
Number of pages: 4
ISSN: 1353-3452
eISSN: 1471-5546
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
In this paper, we aim to discuss the fake journals and their advertisement and publication techniques. These types of journals mostly start and continue their activities by using the name of some indexed journals and establishing fake websites. The fake journals and publishers, while asking the authors for a significant amount of money for publishing their papers, have no peer-review process, publish the papers without any revision on the fake sites, and put the scientific reputation and prestige of the researchers in jeopardy. In the rest of the paper, we present some viable techniques in order for researchers and students to identify these journals. ฉ 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
Keywords
Ethic, Fake journal, Open access, Publication techniques