Fake/Bogus Conferences: Their Features and Some Subtle Ways to Differentiate Them from Real Ones

Asadi, Amin; Rahbar, Nader; Rezvani, Mohammad Javad; Asadi, Fahime

doi:10.1007/s11948-017-9906-2

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“…recebeu 293 convites para apresentação oral. Em geral, este convite incluía anúncios de turismo no local do congresso, linguajar lisonjeiro e um pedido de palestra sobre um artigo específico previamente publicado por ela, mas que, aparentemente, não tinha qualquer ligação com o tema do congresso 14,23 . Em situações em que essas conferências de fato ocorreram, os acadêmicos relataram que eram desorganizadas, desconsideravam sua própria programação, os debates eram fracos e apresentações programadas não aconteceram 24,25 .…”

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Um ano de e-mails não solicitados: o modus operandi de revistas e editoras predatórias

Sousa¹,

Nadanovsky²,

Dhyppolito³

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R. Fac. Odontol. Porto Alegre

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Objectives: To quantify, characterize and analyze e-mail from predatory journals (PJ) received by an academic in dentistry. Materials and methods: E-mails received in 2019 and suspected of being potentially predatory were pre-selected. The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) checklist was applied to identify the suspected biomedical PJ, including the following criteria: article processing charge (APC), fake impact factor, the journal being listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We also extracted information on the lack of an impact factor on Journal Citations Reports, non-journal affiliated contact e-mail address, flattering language, article and/or personal citation, unsubscribe link, being listed in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) current catalog and indexed on Medline. Results: A total of 2,812 unsolicited suspected e-mails were received, and 1,837 requested some sort of manuscript; among these, 1,751 met some of the OHRI criteria. Less than half (780/1,837, 42%) referred to some area of dentistry. The median APC was US$399. A false impact factor was mentioned in 11% (201/1,837) of the e-mails, and 27% (504/1,837) corresponded to journals currently listed in the NLM catalog. Journals listed in DOAJ and COPE sent 89 e-mails. Conclusions: The email campaign from PJ was high and recurrent. Researchers should be well informed about PJ’ modus operandi to protect their own reputation as authors and that of science.

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Um ano de e-mails não solicitados: o modus operandi de revistas e editoras predatórias

Sousa¹,

Nadanovsky²,

Dhyppolito³

et al. 2021

R. Fac. Odontol. Porto Alegre

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“…Researchers eager to present their work may fall prey to conferences that either do not really happen, or are not credible. (Asadi, Rahbar, Rezvani, & Asadi, 2017) It has been stated that "open access" is the reason for the exponential growth of predatory publishers, journal, and conferences. While open access is now a popular business model, used in various ways by all types of credible publishers, it should not be conflated with the use of the internet for publication schemes that are fraudulent.…”

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Scholarly Communication and Open Access in Psychology: Current Considerations for Researchers

Mullen¹

2019

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Scholarly communication and open access practices in psychological science are rapidly evolving. However, most published works that focus on scholarly communication issues do not target the specific discipline, and instead take a more “one size fits all” approach. When it comes to scholarly communication, practices and traditions vary greatly across the disciplines. It is important to look at issues such as open access (of all types), reproducibility, research data management, citation metrics, the emergence of preprint options, the evolution of new peer review models, coauthorship conventions, and use of scholarly networking sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu from a disciplinary perspective. Important issues in scholarly publishing for psychology include uptake of authors’ use of open access megajournals, how open science is represented in psychology journals, challenges of interdisciplinarity, and how authors avail themselves of green and gold open access strategies. This overview presents a discipline-focused treatment of selected scholarly communication topics that will allow psychology researchers and others to get up to speed on this expansive topic. Further study into researcher behavior in terms of scholarly communication in psychology would create more understanding of existing culture as well as provide early career researchers with a more effective roadmap to the current landscape. As no other single work provides a study of scholarly communication and open access in psychology, this work aims to partially fill that niche.

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“…Thus it is crucial that academics have the ability to recognize the most up-to-date techniques used by predators to avoid falling into their traps. In the previous paper, most techniques which have been widely used by predators to seduce researchers to participate in the fake/bogus conferences have been discussed in detail (Asadi et al 2017). However, predators continuously mutate their techniques to persuade researchers to participate in their fake conferences.…”

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“…This makes it easier for predators to take advantage of the authors. Asadi et al (2017) introduced sixteen possible signs of predatory conferences which can be helpful for researchers especially the young and inexperienced ones to differentiate these predatory conferences from the real conferences. However, this is not the end of the story since the predatory organizers frequently mutate their strategies to pretend to be a genuine scientific conference.…”

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Invitation to Speak at a Conference: The Tempting Technique Adopted by Predatory Conferences’ Organizers

Asadi

2018

Sci Eng Ethics

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In recent years, predatory journals, conferences, and publishers have turned to an inevitable threat in scientific publishing. Researchers, regardless of their disciplines, should be aware of these predators and have to be able to recognize them. The main aim of the present paper is to raise awareness about the growing menace of fake invitations to speak at a scientific conference organized by predatory organizers and publishers. Some subtle signs to identify the fake invitations from the authentic ones have been introduced and discussed.

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Fake/Bogus Conferences: Their Features and Some Subtle Ways to Differentiate Them from Real Ones

Cited by 19 publications

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Um ano de e-mails não solicitados: o modus operandi de revistas e editoras predatórias

Um ano de e-mails não solicitados: o modus operandi de revistas e editoras predatórias

Scholarly Communication and Open Access in Psychology: Current Considerations for Researchers

Invitation to Speak at a Conference: The Tempting Technique Adopted by Predatory Conferences’ Organizers

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