How can publishers and editors protect their journals from hijacking? It's a nightmare scenario, but @cabells.com has receievd some tips from one publisher who has been through the whole thing
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Screenshot of a fake website imitating Mathematical Notes of NEFU (ISSN:2411-9326), showing journal details, Scopus logo, and a red "FAKE" stamp across the page.
Another case of #HijackedJournals:
Mathematical Notes of NEFU (ISSN:2411-9326) has been hijacked. The fake website mzsvfu.co.uk was registered on 12/20/2024.
P.S. Not included in any known list of hijacked journals.
RT @mohd_alamr: Another case of #HijackedJournals:
Journal of Zhengzhou University-Natural Science (ISSN:1671-6841) has been hijacked. The fake website t.co/yn1KfTfoNm was registered on 2025-06-24. P.S. Not included in any known list of hijacked journals.
Screenshot of a fake website imitating the Journal of Zhengzhou University – Natural Science (ISSN: 1671-6841), showing journal details, Scopus logo, and a red "FAKE" stamp across the page.
Another case of #HijackedJournals:
Journal of Zhengzhou University-Natural Science (ISSN:1671-6841) has been hijacked. The fake website naturalscience.fyi was registered on 2025-06-24.
P.S. Not included in any known list of hijacked journals.
The guides describe how to spot issues that are common across all disciplines, such as text that has been generated using #artificialintelligence (AI), and publications from #hijackedjournals — #scamwebsites that impersonate legitimate journals.
Ridiculous journal hijacking. A replica of PNAS, but its UK version. This fake journal hasn’t started operations yet. And hope it will never do.
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Protect your research!This Hijacked Journal Checker is here to expose fake journals posing as trusted ones. Don’t let your hard work fall into the hands of predatory "publishers"!
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Besides my research, due to increasing concerns on violation of research integrity 'below the tip of the iceberg', I am giving seminars for junior and senior researchers: www.uv.es/jogiers/ethi...
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Happy Advent! Day 7. Every day a new case is created to highlight problems and inconsistencies in academic papers and scientific journals. Today's case about #hijackedjournals.
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Open a window a day and learn a new thing!
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Wow!The best or if I may the one and only scholarly advent calendar I have seen. Open a window a day and learn a new thing on #researcheintegrity #ethics #hijackedjournals #peerreview #scholarlypublishing
In less than a week after the post on
@retractionwatch.com, the membership of "Springer Global Publications" was suspended by Crossref. The website of this fake publisher was also suspended. The fastest reaction ever!
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One editor’s experience of #journalhijacking: how the fraudsters did it, what the editor did, effect on the scammed researchers
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& see these posts @retractionwatch.com for many examples, to help gain awareness of how #HijackedJournals scams are perpetrated & the ways they might be spotted
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Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker - Created by @abalkina.bsky.social in partnership with @retractionwatch.com
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Journal hijacking becoming highly sophisticated, and journals from big publishers also being targeted. High-quality fraudulent websites, identical designs, “capable of deceiving even experienced researchers” #HijackedJournals #JournalCloning #JournalHijacking
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Another case of #HijackedJournals. Zhuzao/Foundry (ISSN: 1001-4977) has been hijacked. The fake website foundryjournal.net was registered on 2023-07-28.
P.S. Not included in any known list of hijacked journals.
After the deletion of homepage links in the journals' profiles in Scopus, it was unclear if #hijackedjournals would continue to target Scopus, given they could index only unauthorized content? Now we have an answer. Hijacked journals continue to penetrate Scopus. retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/j...
My paper “Challenges posed by hijacked journals in @Scopus” is finally out. This paper introduces the explains the phenomenon of indexjacking, which involves the systematic infiltration of #hijackedjournals into indexing databases. 1/n asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
