Online-Based Approaches to Identify Real Journals and Publishers from Hijacked Ones

Asadi, Amin; Rahbar, Nader; Asadi, Meisam; Asadi, Fahime; Paji, Kokab Khalili

doi:10.1007/s11948-015-9747-9

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“…There are also models relying more on the knowledge of indexing. Asadi, Rahbar, Asadi, Asadi, and Khalili Paji () present what they call four simple and subtle approaches to evaluating a journal: Using the Master Journal List: Web of Science Using Scopus Database Using Papers’ DOI Using Whois Website …”

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How can a questionable journal be identified: Frameworks and checklists

Frandsen

2019

Learned Publishing

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Questionable journals represent an increasing problem in scholarly communication. The warnings about such journals are plentiful, but the methods used to identify them vary a great deal and make it difficult to accurately determine which journals are fraudulent or simply of low quality. This article presents an overview of the existing frameworks for identifying questionable journals and discussions around them. Most of the frameworks rely on describing the journals under investigation according to a set of criteria, and some can even be turned into a metric or mechanism. The development of frameworks for identifying questionable journals has so far been characterized by a great diversity in format, length, and content. Generally, the frameworks come with little information on development, validation, and reliability. The consequences of prolific tool development are discussed, and a recommendation for testing such frameworks is proposed.

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How can a questionable journal be identified: Frameworks and checklists

Frandsen

2019

Learned Publishing

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“…Není nám známo, zda v této věci vlastník dané databáze Thomson Reuters nějak postupuje. Fenoménem napodobování prestižních časopisů se zabývá kupříkladu článek (Tin et al, 2014) a objevují se i první řešení (Asadi et al, 2016). Přesto i v prostředí impaktfaktorových časopisů najdeme predátory.…”

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Predatory Open Access Publishers and other Dangers to Today's Scientific Community

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Řezníček

2015

AIP

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AbstraktCílem tohoto příspěvku je představit souhrnné informace a aktuální stav problematiky predátorských vydavatelů a kriticky diskutovat obecné predátorské chování a vybraná související témata v českém i mezinárodním kontextu. V článku jsou přehledně uvedeny výstupy prvních zahraničních studií zabývajících se predátorskými vydavatelstvími a časopisy. Zjišťujeme, že ačkoli je v posledních třech letech problematika predátorství aktivně řešena v zahraničí, české vysokoškolské instituce nejsou na tento nový fenomén připraveny stejně jako většina akademických a výzkumných pracovníků, kteří o něm vůbec neví. Kromě upozornění na potenciální hrozby, kterým vědecká komunita (případně věda a vzdělávání obecně) čelí, reaguje článek na popsanou situaci návrhem opatření z pohledu jednotlivce i vysokoškolské instituce. Na závěr článku jsou uvedeny trendy v chování predátorských vydavatelů a dilemata, před kterými stojí poctiví vydavatelé časopisů a mezinárodní indexovací databáze.Klíčová slova: Beallův seznam, predátorští vydavatelé, vanity press, vědecké časopisy, virtuální konference. AbstractThe aim of this paper is to introduce a summary and current state of the issue of predatory open access publishers and to critically discuss general predatory behaviour and related topics in the Czech and international context. The article summarizes outputs of the first foreign studies dealing with predatory publishers and journals. We find that although in the past three years, the issue of predation is actively addressed in foreign countries, the Czech higher education institutions are not prepared for this new phenomenon as well as most of academics and researchers do not know about it at all. The text highlights the threats with which the scientific community (science and education in general) is confronted and proposes countermeasures from the view of an individual and higher education institutions. At the end of the article, there are mentioned trends in the behaviour of predatory publishers and dilemmas which non-predatory journal publishers and international indexing databases are faced with.

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“…Some studies have also raised the issue of hijacked journals (Dadkhah & Maliszewski, 2015;Jalalian & Dadkhah, 2015;Shahri, Jazi, et al, 2018) where the titles and ISSNs of both existing and discontinued journals have been picked up by shady actors. The problem is perceived as so widespread that tools for distinguishing real from hijacked journals have been developed (Asadi, Rahbar, et al, 2017).…”

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Methodological considerations for identifying questionable publishing in a national context: The case of Swedish Higher Education Institutions

Nelhans

Bodin

2020

Quantitative Science Studies

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The overall scope of this study is an attempt at a methodological framework for matching publication lists at the national level against a combined set of blacklists for questionable publishing. Using the total verified set of publications from Swedish Higher Education Institutions (HEI) as a case, we examined the number, distribution, and proportion of publishing in questionable journals at the national level. Journal publication data was extracted from the national SwePub database and matched against three curated blacklists of questionable publishing. For the period 2012–2017, we identified 1,743 published papers in blacklisted journals, equal to an average of 0.5–0.9% of the total publications from Swedish HEIs. There was high variability between different HEI categories, with more established universities at the lower end of the spectrum, while university colleges and new universities had a much higher proportion (∼2%). There was a general decreasing trend during the study period (ρ = 0.83) for all categories of HEIs. The study presents a methodology to identify questionable publishing in academia that could be applied to other countries with similar infrastructure. Thus, it could serve as a starting point for the development of a general framework for cross-national quantitative estimation of questionable publishing.

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Online-Based Approaches to Identify Real Journals and Publishers from Hijacked Ones

Cited by 23 publications

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How can a questionable journal be identified: Frameworks and checklists

How can a questionable journal be identified: Frameworks and checklists

Predatory Open Access Publishers and other Dangers to Today's Scientific Community

Methodological considerations for identifying questionable publishing in a national context: The case of Swedish Higher Education Institutions

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