Anna Abalkina

Nov 25, 2024 | retractionwatch.com | Anna Abalkina

Until recently, journal hijackers do not appear to have targeted titles from big publishers, in part because their well-known website designs made such clones easy to detect. Typically, cloned versions of journals’ websites are of low quality and don’t resemble the recognizable and professional designs of Springer Nature and Elsevier.

Nov 22, 2024 | journals.plos.org | Jennifer Byrne |Anna Abalkina |Freie Universität Berlin |Olufolake Akinduro-Aje

Citation: Byrne JA, Abalkina A, Akinduro-Aje O, Christopher J, Eaton SE, Joshi N, et al. (2024) A call for research to address the threat of paper mills. PLoS Biol 22(11): e3002931. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002931Published: November 22, 2024Copyright: © 2024 Byrne et al.

Aug 17, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Anna Abalkina

ABSTRACTBackground The study examines the prevalence of plagiarism in hijacked journals, a category of problematic journals that have proliferated over the past decade. Methods A quasi-random sample of 936 papers published in 58 hijacked journals that provided free access to their archive as of June 2021 was selected for the analysis.

Jun 18, 2024 | retractionwatch.com | Anna Abalkina

Last December, Elsevier’s Scopus index deleted all links to journal homepages in response to the widespread issue of journal hijacking, when a legitimate title, website, ISSN, and other metadata of a journal are taken over without permission. Scopus has been a major target. I’ve cataloged 67 cases since 2013 of hijacked journals penetrating the database.

Dec 28, 2023 | retractionwatch.com | Anna Abalkina |Ivan Oransky

Scopus has struck all links to the homepages of journals it indexes, Elsevier announced earlier this month. The move follows revelations that content from dozens of hijacked journals had been included in the database.