Fake Journals: Their Features and Some Viable Ways to Distinguishing Them

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Author listHemmat Esfe M., Wongwises S., Asadi A., Akbari M.

PublisherSpringer

Publication year2015

JournalScience and Engineering Ethics (1353-3452)

Volume number21

Issue number4

Start page821

End page824

Number of pages4

ISSN1353-3452

eISSN1471-5546

URLhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938244114&doi=10.1007%2fs11948-014-9595-z&partnerID=40&md5=bafc307f1ac0424eddae5cc78b49c1f0

LanguagesEnglish-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.


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EthicFake journalOpen accessPublication techniques


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