Similar names in academic literature as a tools to deceive researchers
by Mehdi Dadkhah; Ashok K. Shyam; Valentina Christova-Bagdassarian; Mohammad Davarpanah Jazi
International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP), Vol. 8, No. 1, 2016

Abstract: Every day, academic world is confronted with new challenges and possible scams and awareness of them is necessary for researchers. Lack of information about these issues would lead to serious problems including the difficulties at finding validated academic resource. Journals are the most important academic resource for a researcher however certain unethical practices have come to light regarding authenticity of certain Journals. Journals with names that are similar to existing (and reputed) journals is one of the recently noted problem. These names occasionally are used by 'certain dubious publishers' to deceive researchers. In this short paper we address this issue of similar names in academic literature and the way it is used to deceive researchers.

Online publication date: Wed, 17-Feb-2016

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