Hijacked journal
A hijacked journal is a legitimate academic journal for which a bogus website has been created by a malicious third party for the purpose of fraudulently offering academics the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee.[1]
Background
In 2012, cyber criminals began hijacking print-only journals by registering a domain name and creating a fake website under the title of the hijacked journals.[2]
The first journal to be hijacked was the Swiss journal Archives des Sciences. In 2012 and 2013, more than 20 academic journals were hijacked.[1] In some cases, forgers find their victim in conference proceedings, extracting authors' emails from papers and sending them fake calls for papers.[3]
There have also been instances of hijacking journals by taking over their existing domain names after the journal publisher neglected to pay the domain name registration fees on time.[4][5]
See also
- Confidence trick
- Passing off
- Predatory open access publishing
- Other journals that were the victim of hijacking:
References
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- ↑ Mehdi Dadkhah and Aida Quliyeva, “Social Engineering in Academic World”, Journal of Contemporary Applied Mathematics (Invited Paper), 4(2), pp. 3-5, 2015.
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External links
- American librarian Jeffrey Beall's hijacked journal list
- Iranian journalist Mehrdad Jalalian's hijacked journal list
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