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Hijacked journals, hijacked web-sites, journal phishing, misleading metrics, and predatory publishing: actual and potential threats to academic integrity and publishing ethics

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Prof. Marwan M. Obeidat (Department of English Language and Literature, Hashemite University, Jordan), Valentina Christova-Bagdassarian (National Center of Public Health and Analyses, Sofia, Bulgaria), and Claudia Stefanutti (Lipid Clinic and Atherosclerosis Prevention Centre, Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine, “Umberto I” Hospital, Department of Molecular Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy) for limited suggestions on early versions of this manuscript.

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  1. Independent Scientist, Information Science and Publication Ethics Scholar, Isfahan, Iran

    Mehdi Dadkhah

  2. Department of Social Sciences, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, ul. Bohaterów Westerplatte 64, 76-200, Słupsk, Poland

    Tomasz Maliszewski

  3. P. O. Box 7, Miki-Cho Post Office, 3011-2, Ikenobe, Kagawa-ken, 761-0799, Japan

    Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

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Dadkhah, M., Maliszewski, T. & Teixeira da Silva, J.A. Hijacked journals, hijacked web-sites, journal phishing, misleading metrics, and predatory publishing: actual and potential threats to academic integrity and publishing ethics. Forensic Sci Med Pathol 12, 353–362 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-016-9785-x

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