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Journal hijacking

Predatory journal that impersonates an academic journal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Journal hijacking refers to the brandjacking of a legitimate academic journal by a malicious third party. Typically, the imposter journal sets up a fraudulent website for the purpose of offering scholars the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee.[1][2][3] The term hijacked journal may refer to either the fraud[4] or the legitimate journal.[5] The fraudulent journals are also known as "clone journals".[6] Similar hijacking can occur with academic conferences.[2][7]

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Background

In 2012, cyber criminals began hijacking print-only journals by registering a domain name and creating a fake website under the title of the legitimate journals.[2]

The first journal to be hijacked was the Swiss journal Archives des Sciences. In 2012 and 2013, more than 20 academic journals were hijacked.[1] In some cases, scammers find their victims in conference proceedings, extracting authors' emails from papers and sending them fake calls for papers.[8]

There have also been instances of journal hijacking wherein hijackers take over the journal's existing domain name after the journal publisher neglects to pay the domain name registration fees on time.[3][9]

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List of hijacked journals

There are several hundred documented cases of journal hijackings; hijacked journals with existing Wikipedia articles include:[10][11]

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