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- Title
Academic Journals Plagued by Bogus Impact Factors.
- Authors
Dadkhah, Mehdi; Borchardt, Glenn; Lagzian, Mohammad; Bianciardi, Giorgio
- Abstract
The current status of academic publishing is worrying. Cybercriminals are now targeting academic audiences, making it necessary to inform both editors and authors about such issues. The latest involves bogus impact factors, which are challenging scholarly publishing. Legitimate impact factors are used by authors and editors to get a general idea of the audience, if any, for a particular piece or journal. The bogus metrics only add confusion in support of the cybercrimes of their initiators. In this paper, we discuss bogus impact factors, victim countries, and try to clarify the phenomena for both authors and editors.
- Subjects
SCHOLARLY periodicals; IMPACT factor (Citation analysis); CYBERCRIMINALS; PREDATORY publishing; ELECTRONIC journals
- Publication
Publishing Research Quarterly, 2017, Vol 33, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
1053-8801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12109-017-9509-4