Reliability of Hijacked Journal Detection Based on Scientometrics,
Altmetric Tools and Web Informatics: A Case Report Using Google Scholar,
Web of Science and Scopus
Abstract
This paper presents a case report on detecting hijacked journals.
Towards identification of a fake journal website and preventing a
hijacked paper, we use different tools including Google Scholar - as an
altmetric tool, Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, both as scientometric
databases, to distinguish fake website from a legal (printed) journal.
Our evaluation shows that analysis of a doubtful website should be done
not just using Google Scholar. In fact, use of scientometric tools for
tracking prior publications of the journal is compulsory. Main result of
this case study is that in some uncommon cases, fake websites may
convince scientometric databases in order to be fully/partially indexed
along with an abstracting of their hijacked papers. Therefore as a
results, we should check both WoS and Scopus for verifying a fake
website.