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<h2 id="background">Background</h2> <p>In 2012, <a href="/facts/Computer_crime/cSyaFF96">cyber criminals</a> began hijacking print-only journals by <a href="/facts/Cybersquatting/fR3G4lHM">registering a domain name</a> and creating a fake website under the title of the legitimate journals.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p><p>The first journal to be hijacked was the Swiss journal <i><a href="/facts/Archives_des_Sciences/Caf3Poae">Archives des Sciences</a></i>. In 2012 and 2013, more than 20 academic journals were hijacked.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> In some cases, <a href="/facts/Scammer/1XNPz6wR">scammers</a> find their victims in <a href="/facts/Conference_proceedings/fpdlh1Sr">conference proceedings</a>, extracting authors' emails from papers and sending them fake calls for papers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p><p>There have also been instances of journal hijacking wherein hijackers <a href="/facts/Domain_hijacking/RqdqloCo">take over the journal's existing domain name</a> after the journal publisher neglects to pay the domain name registration fees on time.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="list-of-hijacked-journals">List of hijacked journals</h2> <p>There are several hundred documented cases of journal hijackings; hijacked journals with existing Wikipedia articles include:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Academy_of_Management_Annals/kqrS6Ffo">Academy of Management Annals</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Arctic_(journal)/sSjaTGXq">Arctic</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Australian_Journal_of_Herpetology/0u94NwaR">Australian Journal of Herpetology</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Aut_Aut/aSSU8SUU">Aut Aut</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Bothalia%3a_African_Biodiversity_%2526_Conservation/BN0kM4Hd">Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/British_Journal_of_Canadian_Studies/xLmP2jYX">British Journal of Canadian Studies</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Bulletin_of_Hispanic_Studies/Pcgf5hP9">Bulletin of Hispanic Studies</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Chelonian_Conservation_and_Biology/3Kl5rdDt">Chelonian Conservation and Biology</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Comptes_Rendus_de_l%2527Acad%25C3%25A9mie_Bulgare_des_Sciences/YLJc6j43">Comptes Rendus de l'Académie Bulgare des Sciences</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Entomologist%2527s_Gazette/A2PB7wDd">Entomologist's Gazette</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Epistemologia/HWX6dnVk">Epistemologia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Iheringia/rrn6Vj5E">Iheringia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/International_Journal_of_Central_Banking/VkbAzGvC">International Journal of Central Banking</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/International_Journal_of_Multicultural_Education/u96V4JIw">International Journal of Multicultural Education</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/J%25C3%25B6kull_(journal)/WjyDQY4l">Jökull</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Interdisciplinary_Cycle_Research/gTKsIXja">Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Natural_Products/kIA1SrRY">Journal of Natural Products</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/The_Journal_of_Psychology/6seQwBl1">The Journal of Psychology</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Psychology_%2526_Theology/az81MuoW">Journal of Psychology & Theology</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Scientific_Temper/Fp4xrCvH">Journal of Scientific Temper</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_the_IEST/E1gVFV4U">Journal of the IEST</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Vacuum_Science_and_Technology/jLnNhTIm">Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Jundishapur_Journal_of_Microbiology/UcBrbBK4">Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Levant_(journal)/w7gHeMmA">Levant</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Natural_History_(magazine)/xUjons1y">Natural History</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/The_Nautilus_(journal)/0N0hPMB4">The Nautilus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Novy_Mir/5dQSN6C8">Novy Mir</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Organization_Development_Journal/Sf8awSbq">Organization Development Journal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Positif_(magazine)/gMcqKsUL">Positif</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Pragmatics_(journal)/7D0KeoPk">Pragmatics</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Preslia/D9u6V47n">Preslia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Research-Technology_Management/AaGP37sG">Research-Technology Management</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Salmagundi_(magazine)/pSt8c2WP">Salmagundi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Scandia_(journal)/Lkxz992W">Scandia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Social_Evolution_%2526_History/HGQhyYwl">Social Evolution & History</a></i></li> <li><i>Specialusis Ugdymas</i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Sylwan/qPPaxt1o">Sylwan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/The_Veliger/NleNHSsb">The Veliger</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Wulfenia_(journal)/fK2hf0mR">Wulfenia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Ymer_(journal)/HvxUIKem">Ymer</a></i></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li>Category:Hijacked journals</li> <li><a href="/facts/Cybersquatting/fR3G4lHM">Cybersquatting</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Confidence_trick/1XNPz6wR">Confidence trick</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Passing_off/ag3mwqzI">Passing off</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Predatory_open_access_publishing/vHXmLzEX">Predatory open access publishing</a></li></ul> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul><li>Jalalian, Mehrdad; Dadkhah, Mehdi (2015). <a href="https://doi.org/10.5937%2Fgeopan1502073j">"The full story of 90 hijacked journals from August 2011 to June 2015"</a>. <i>Geographica Pannonica</i>. 19 (2): 73–87. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5937%2Fgeopan1502073j">10.5937/geopan1502073j</a>. <a href="/facts/ISSN_(identifier)/DPAflDvU">ISSN</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0354-8724">0354-8724</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Anna_Abalkina/9dgvrTuB">Abalkina, Anna</a> (21 June 2021). "Detecting a network of hijacked journals by its archive". <i>Scientometrics</i>. 126 (8): 7123–7148. <a href="/facts/ArXiv_(identifier)/H6EtgnBe">arXiv</a>:<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01224">2101.01224</a>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11192-021-04056-0">10.1007/s11192-021-04056-0</a>. <a href="/facts/ISSN_(identifier)/DPAflDvU">ISSN</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0138-9130">0138-9130</a>. <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:230523913">230523913</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li>American librarian <a href="/facts/Jeffrey_Beall/44mE28Q1">Jeffrey Beall</a>'s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151207233414/http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/hijacked-journals/">hijacked journal and authentic journal list</a></li> <li><a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2022/05/29/want-to-know-whether-that-journal-is-scamming-you-introducing-the-retraction-watch-hijacked-journal-checker/">Hijacked Journal Checker</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Butler, Declan (27 March 2013). "Sham journals scam authors". Nature. 495 (7442): 421–422. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..421B. doi:10.1038/495421a. PMID 23538804. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038%2F495421a" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038%2F495421a</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Jalalian, Mehrdad; Mahboobi, Hamidreza (2014). "Hijacked Journals and Predatory Publishers: Is There a Need to Re-Think How to Assess the Quality of Academic Research?". Walailak Journal of Science and Technology. 11 (5): 389–394. <a href="http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/1004" target="_blank">http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/1004</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>McCook, Alison (19 November 2015). "Can journals get hijacked? Apparently, yes". Retraction Watch. <a href="http://retractionwatch.com/2015/11/19/can-journals-get-hijacked-apparently-yes/" target="_blank">http://retractionwatch.com/2015/11/19/can-journals-get-hijacked-apparently-yes/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Danevska, Lenche; Spiroski, Mirko; Donev, Doncho; Pop-Jordanova, Nada; Polenakovic, Momir (1 November 2016). "How to Recognize and Avoid Potential, Possible, or Probable Predatory Open-Access Publishers, Standalone, and Hijacked Journals". Prilozi. 37 (2–3): 5–13. doi:10.1515/prilozi-2016-0011. PMID 27883329. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515%2Fprilozi-2016-0011" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1515%2Fprilozi-2016-0011</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Menon, Varun G. (18 July 2018). "How are Predatory Publishers Preying on Uninformed Scholars? Don't Be a Victim". Online Educational Symposium Series. IGI Global. <a href="https://www.igi-global.com/symposium/" target="_blank">https://www.igi-global.com/symposium/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Asim, Zeeshan; Sorooshian, Shahryar (13 January 2020). "Clone journals: a threat to medical research". Sao Paulo Medical Journal. 137 (6): 550–551. doi:10.1590/1516-3180.2018.0370160919. PMC 9754270. PMID 31939492. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754270" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754270</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Jalalian, Mehrdad; Mahboobi, Hamidreza (2014). "Hijacked Journals and Predatory Publishers: Is There a Need to Re-Think How to Assess the Quality of Academic Research?". Walailak Journal of Science and Technology. 11 (5): 389–394. <a href="http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/1004" target="_blank">http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/1004</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Kolata, Gina (7 April 2013). "For Scientists, an Exploding World of Pseudo-Academia". The New York Times. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html?_r=2&" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html?_r=2&</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Jalalian, Mehrdad; Mahboobi, Hamidreza (2014). "Hijacked Journals and Predatory Publishers: Is There a Need to Re-Think How to Assess the Quality of Academic Research?". Walailak Journal of Science and Technology. 11 (5): 389–394. <a href="http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/1004" target="_blank">http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/1004</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Butler, Declan (27 March 2013). "Sham journals scam authors". Nature. 495 (7442): 421–422. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..421B. doi:10.1038/495421a. PMID 23538804. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038%2F495421a" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038%2F495421a</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Dadkhah, Mehdi; Quliyeva, Aida (2015). "Social Engineering in Academic World". Journal of Contemporary Applied Mathematics. 4 (2): 3–5. <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>McCook, Alison (19 November 2015). "Can journals get hijacked? Apparently, yes". Retraction Watch. <a href="http://retractionwatch.com/2015/11/19/can-journals-get-hijacked-apparently-yes/" target="_blank">http://retractionwatch.com/2015/11/19/can-journals-get-hijacked-apparently-yes/</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Bohannon, John (19 November 2015). "Feature: How to hijack a journal". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aad7463. <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-how-hijack-journal" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-how-hijack-journal</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"Beall's list of potential predatory journals and publishers". Beall's List. Retrieved 27 July 2024. <a href="https://beallslist.net/hijacked-journals/" target="_blank">https://beallslist.net/hijacked-journals/</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>"Retraction Watch Hijacked Journals Checker". Google Docs. Retrieved 27 July 2024. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ak985WGOgGbJRJbZFanoktAN_UFeExpE/edit?gid=5255084#gid=5255084" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ak985WGOgGbJRJbZFanoktAN_UFeExpE/edit?gid=5255084#gid=5255084</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>