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 short paper presents a case report on detecting hijacked journals.
Towards identification of a fake journal website and preventing a
hijacked paper, we can use different tools including Google Scholar (an
altmetric tool), Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus (both as scientometric
databases) to distinguish a fake website from a legal journal website.
Our evaluation shows that analysis of a doubtful website for a targeted
journal based on Google Scholar is not reliable. In fact, the use of
scientometric tools for tracking prior publications of the targeted
journal is compulsory. Another result of this case study is that in some
uncommon cases, fake websites may sometimes convince a scientometric
database in order to be partially indexed along with an abstracting of
their hijacked papers while these websites steal identity of the legal
journals. Therefore as a results, we should check both of WoS and Scopus
for verifying a fake website at the same time to obtain more
reliability.