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Which scientific journals have been hijacked?

There are already 306 on the list!

Rob Beschizza
Nov 13, 2024
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Anna Abalkina and Retraction Watch have begun tracking scientific journals which show signs of having been hijacked by frauds, mountebanks and whatnot: The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. Sometimes this is crudely accomplished by displacement, through replicas and confusingly-similar names, but there are e…

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