I got this http://thedesignenginnering.com link through some friend. I didn't know that it was fake. I had submitted my paper. They have published it. But they aren't sharing me the full copy PDF. Just at this point, I realized that this is a fake one. I contacted the journal team by email. No response. How do I get it? Our research office will usually ask us to submit the full paper PDF for verification? Can anyone suggest me how to receive the full paper PDF?
A Divya Preetha you ask Is Design Engineering Scopus or fake journal?
yet you have concluded it is.
Did you pay to publish? If so was it over 500 euros or dollars
did you have any feedback, reviewers, demands for rewrite, etc?
when I searched in Scholar there are 3500 items
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=thedesignengineering.com&btnG=
for a new journal that is not a bad score.More importantly, to be there has to be citations unlike say a Researchgate preprint
the website is buggy
and for open source, it seems unable to easily furnish more than the abstract of articles.
If you need exposure to a wider research audience of the full paper why don't you upload a preprint here?
Google ranks Researchgate on a par with Springer just google
a tale of two beers
or
Plasma Water Theory
to see the power of preprints
Sincerely
CGY
PS since the journal is indexed in scholar and if you could edit your submission I would cite as many of your papers from this article nuff said
PPS Mohammed O. Al-Amr highjacked journal seems plausible do you have any proof?
Design Engineering may be payed journal and they might be interested in getting publication charges. Unless you pay the charges, they may not sent the copies of the paper.
It is paid journal. It is available in Scopus but the quality of papers published in the journal is not that good
Dear Christopher Gerard Yukna and Pravin Yadav ,
The point is that there is/are fake (hijacked) version(s) of the journal. The real one can be found here: https://www.design-engineering.com/digital-edition/ It is a so-called Trade Journal so only a few of their articles are considered as real (scientific) papers. Do read the following here on RG:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Design_Engineering_is_a_fake_journal2
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Design_Engineering_Scopus_or_fake_journal
For example, http://www.thedesignengineering.com/index.php/DE is fake. One big red flag is that (high) number of papers published in the fake journal does not match with the number which can be found in the “Scopus content coverage” (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/28687).
It is a sad example of a hijacked journal and a sad example where Scopus gives a link to the wrong journal. This is unfortunately not the only time that Scopus is having a hard time dealing with the fraudulent version of a legit journal, see for example:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_very_misleading_type_of_scam_Anyone_with_recent_examples
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Hijacked_journals_in_Scopus
So yes, there is indeed a legit version of this (Trade) journal, but the question relates to a fake (hijacked) version.
Best regards.
- Rob Keller thanks, It sad that so much cybercrime is getting more and more sophisticated. I mean pretty convincing chatbots surf LinkedIn and Facebook it is appalling. Why I respond is so many people suggest that many journals located in the old Soviet bloc are predatory when they try their best to be as low cost as possible often offering to publish short versions less than ten pages for free, and when longer charge lower rates than Plos journals to publish. Sure their budgets are too low and management is overwhelmed, but they do get you published and cited. The alternative is to ignore getting peer review and rely on preprints.
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