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. 2016 Sep;12(3):353-62. doi: 10.1007/s12024-016-9785-x. Epub 2016 Jun 24.

Authors

Mehdi Dadkhah¹, Tomasz Maliszewski², Jaime A Teixeira da Silva³

Affiliations

¹ Independent Scientist, Information Science and Publication Ethics Scholar, Isfahan, Iran. dadkhah80@gmail.com.
² Department of Social Sciences, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, ul. Bohaterów Westerplatte 64, 76-200, Słupsk, Poland.
³ , P. O. Box 7, Miki-Cho Post Office, 3011-2, Ikenobe, Kagawa-ken, 761-0799, Japan.

PMID: 27342770
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-016-9785-x

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Fraud*
Humans
Internet
Open Access Publishing* / ethics
Peer Review
Periodicals as Topic*