{"id":7202,"date":"2014-06-02T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2014-10-02T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:03:08","slug":"journal-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/06\/journal-hijacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not easy to monitor science output. This may be particular true when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyoa.com\/2014\/05\/22\/spanish-journal-latest-victim-of-journal-hijacking\">Journal Hijacking<\/a>. In brief<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Spanish journal Afinidad has been hijacked. Someone has set up a fake website for the journal and is soliciting submissions and payments from the authors in accordance with the gold open-access model. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the recent quality of some scholarly journals I feel they may have been highjacked too: typing errors, omission of references, major misunderstandings, logical errors, you name it.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not easy to monitor science output. This may be particular true when it comes to Journal Hijacking. In brief The Spanish journal Afinidad has been hijacked. Someone has set up a fake website for the journal and is soliciting submissions and payments from the authors in accordance with the gold open-access model. With the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/06\/journal-hijacking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journal Hijacking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[1771,2874,1185,2894],"class_list":["post-7202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-failure","tag-peer","tag-review","tag-whats-the-alternative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7206,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}