Impact Factor Archives - Predatory Journals and Conferences

Journal publishes a spoof Covid-19 paper

"Cyllage City COVID-19 Outbreak Linked to Zubat Consumption" is a spoof paper that was accepted and published in a peer reviewed journal. The paper even contained the sentence "Epidemiologists...

Our anonymity and a change in direction

We outline a new direction for this web site (and our Twitter feed). We will still focus on predatory publishing but will also have a much wider coverage.

Call for authorships, but paper already published?

We have become aware of a Facebook post seeking co-authors for a paper. Yet, we think, we think the paper was published almost a year earlier.

Facebook post provides the opportunity to be an author

A Facebook group is offering the opportunity to be an author of a paper, if you pay a fee. In this article we present what we have found, but there are still a lot of questions that need answering.

Verifying a Google Scholar impact factor?

For any impact factor, you should be able to verify (i.e. reproduce) it. With Google Scholar, this is possible but can be time consuming and it also requires a certain level of knowledge that many...

Google Scholar and the International Journal of Management (IAEME Publication)

The International Journal of Management (ISSN: 0976-6502), which is published by IAEME Publication has two Google Scholar entries. Each one shows a different number of publications, citations,...