Preventing hijacked research papers in fake (rogue) journals through social media and databases

Pages1-6
Date01 July 2019
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-11-2018-0070
Published date01 July 2019
AuthorVarun G. Menon,Mohammad R. Khosravi
Subject MatterLibrary & information science
Preventing hijacked research
papers in fake (rogue) journals
through social media
and databases
Varun G. Menon and Mohammad R. Khosravi
This paper on “hijacked journals”, a
subset of predatory journals, is
motivated from our real life experience
that happened while contacting a few
university professors and students.
Predatory journals also include those
journals that may be legitimate, but
charge exorbitant author fees,
unrealistic expenses for document
delivery, etc. However, this paper
focuses on fake journals. Trying to
publish papers, academicians have lost
huge amounts of money to fake journal
websites. In a real case, many of them
encountered with one such
website“www.jokull.com”thatclaims
to be genuine website of the impact
factor journal “Jokull”. Figure 1 shows
the information on the journal which
has been obtained from “Clarivate
Analytics”. This information assures
that Jokull is a legitimate journal with
an impact factor published by the
Iceland Glaciological Society. This
information also matched with the data
given in the fake journal website.
Therefore, we started searching about
this journal in Google and other similar
services. Many academicians have
posted interesting information about
the Jokull journal in many blogs, and
newsletters informing that the journal
had been hijacked and the legitimate
website of Jokull journal is
“jokulljournal.is”. Figure 2 shows the
screenshots of the legitimate and fake
websites of Jokull journal. So, what is
actually a hijacked journal?
A “hijacked journal” is a genuine
academic journal for which one (or
more) fake website have been generated
by a malicious third party for the
purpose of fraudulently offering
academicians the opportunity to rapidly
publish their research online for a fee
(Kolahi and Khazaei, 2015). Once the
fake website is created by copying the
name, content, impact factor, ISSN and
other details of the legitimate journal,
the attackers attract manuscript
submissions by sending out invitations
and call for papers to researchers
through e-mails (these e-mails are
classified into a big group of doubtful
e-mail invitations which are called
“spam emails”), SMS and social
networking sites like LinkedIn. With
the enormous pressure to publish
research results in the world (this
pressure particularly in developing
countries makes many misconducts, this
itself can be theme for a deep research),
many authors fall prey to these cyber
criminals, and losing their money and
precious research results.
Unfortunately, there are many
victims to this severe threat faced by
the scholarly publishing community
VOLUME 36 NUMBER 5 2019
JUNE
AN EMERALD PUBLICATION
LIBRARY HI TECH NEWS NUMBER 5 2019
CONTENTS
Professional literature
Preventing hijacked research papers
in fake (rogue) journals through
social media and databases. . . . . 1
Column
Marketing library and information
resources and services using social
media platforms: the security
question................... 7
Conference report
Consumer electronics show 2019, from
connected devices and big data to
artificial intelligence: implications for
libraries...................11
Feature articles
Mobile library initiatives: A new way
to revitalize the academic library
settings ..................15
Document viewer with DSpace: a
practical approach . . .........22
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