Detecting a network of hijacked journals by its archive

Hijacked scientific journals: a warning to researchers

Hijacking of scientific journals consists of websites created by hackers in place of true academic journals for copying their names, addresses, impact factors and international publication numbers in order to steal scientific output and payment of fees charged for publication.(1) Today there is great pressure on researchers to publish their scientific results. Some journals publish for free and...

A second chance for authors of hijacked journals to publish in legitimate journals

This article proposes the republication of articles that have previously been published in counterfeit websites of hijacked journals. The paper also discusses the technical and ethical aspects of republishing such articles.

Hijacked journals are emerging as a challenge for scholarly publishing.

Detecting Hijacked Sites by Web Spammer Using Link-Based Algorithms

In this paper, we propose a method for finding web sites whose links are hijacked by web spammers. A hijacked site is a trustworthy site that points to untrustworthy sites. To detect hijacked sites, we evaluate the trustworthiness of web sites, and examine how trustworthy sites are hijacked by untrustworthy sites in their out-neighbors. The trustworthiness is evaluated based on the difference b...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...