Hijacked Journals

[Jerry Harris]

I'd never heard of a hijacked journal before, and I guess maybe they haven't made it yet in to the world of paleontology, but something to be wary of...

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/dx-2024-0082/html

[mkir...@gmail.com]

That's very concerning.  See:  https://retractionwatch.com/2023/11/03/my-journal-was-hijacked-an-editors-experience/

The list of hijacked journals mentioned in the article above is at Retraction Watch Journal Checker:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ak985WGOgGbJRJbZFanoktAN_UFeExpE/edit?pli=1&gid=5255084#gid=5255084

See also:  https://www.science.org/content/article/leading-scholarly-database-listed-hundreds-papers-hijacked-journals

[Skye McDavid]

PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology seems to have fallen victim to this scourge. 

https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jvp

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[Thomas Richard Holtz]

Holy crap!

On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 9:43 AM Jerry Harris <dino...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd never heard of a hijacked journal before, and I guess maybe they haven't made it yet in to the world of paleontology, but something to be wary of...

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/dx-2024-0082/html

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[Mike Taylor]

What about PalArch's VP journal makes you say that? Its website looks fine to me, but I may be missing something.

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[Heinrich Mallison]

Check the titles of the papers on the current issue. 

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[Mike Taylor]

That is disturbing indeed. Yet their backfile is still good: our paper at https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jvp/article/view/359/344 is present and correct. I guess that lends legitimacy to the new stuff.

I'm copying this to Andy Farke who was or maybe still is involved in this journal. Andy, thoughts?

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