Fraudulent journals
Open access journals with fraudulent or unethical practices. These practices typically include:
- Publishing in exchange for money without doing a quality review of the articles.
- Sending bulk emails to Call for papers.
- Lying about any criteria of the journal, such as the impact factor, journal location, etc.
- Using very similar titles to international journals about the same field.
- Listing academics as members of the editorial board without their permission.
- Informing the authors of the cost of the article only after accepting the documents.
Check if the journal in which you wish to publish is on one of the following websites:
- Integrated classification of scientific journals
- Directory of Open Journals (DOAJ)
- Information Matrix for Journal Analysis
Hijacked journal
Journals that impersonate other journals indexed in the Web of Science, by buying very similar Internet domains. These are generally journals that have no digital edition or whose digital edition is merely testimonial. They send emails to researchers posing as publishers of the journals they impersonate, saying they can easily get published in quality journals in exchange for a fee.
