Fraud in Academic Publishing: Researchers Under Cyber-Attacks

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Mehdi Dadkhah ; MSc^a ; ^{dadkhah1992@gmail.com} ; Glenn Borchardt ; PhD^b ; Tomasz Maliszewski ; PhD^c
• 关键词：Bogus metric ; Fraud ; Predatory journal ; Spam e-mail
• 刊名：The American Journal of Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：130
• 期：1
• 页码：27-30
• 全文大小：487 K
• 卷排序：130

文摘

Day by day, researchers receive new suspicious e-mails in their inboxes. Many of them do not have sufficient information about these types of e-mails, and may become victims of cyber-attacks. In this short communication, we review current cyber threats in academic publishing and try to present general guidelines for authors.