International action needed to eliminate ‘cloned journals’ that prey on early career researchers, says Indian research integrity advisor.
(30 Aug 2021) Fraudulent journals that hijack the identity of legitimate scholarly publications are becoming one of the biggest problems for India’s research system, with millions of dollars a year being “siphoned” into international publishing scams, a research integrity expert has warned.
Sumit Narula, deputy dean of research (publications and citations) at Amity University, which has campuses in Mumbai, Kolkata and Jaipur, told Times Higher Education that he was alarmed by the rising numbers of Indian scholars falling for so-called “hijacked” or “cloned” journals, in which fraudsters create near-identical domain names to established journals and charge fees of up to US$1,000 (£728) for “publication” in these outlets without peer review or editing.
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