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Fake Journals: Their Features and Some Viable Ways to Distinguishing Them
Mohammad Hemmat Esfe1, Somchai Wongwises, Amin Asadi
1Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.
Abstract:
In this paper, we aim to discuss the fake journals and their advertisement and publication techniques. These types of journals mostly start and continue their activities by using the name of some indexed journals and establishing fake websites. The fake journals and publishers, while asking the authors for a significant amount of money for publishing their papers, have no peer-review process, publish the papers without any revision on the fake sites, and put the scientific reputation and prestige of the researchers in jeopardy. In the rest of the paper, we present some viable techniques in order for researchers and students to identify these journals.
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