Dear Neelam Swarnkar ,

The journal “Solid State Technology” is/used to be published by “PennWell Publishing Corp.”

The Scopus indexing seems real: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/27209 (update 20-1-2020 the coverage stopped in 2018). However according to comments on the SCImago site about this journal some say that the site “ http://solidstatetechnology.us/index.php/JSST ” is a cloned version of the original subscription journal. I was unable to find the original site (presumably this journal never had an internet presence as subscription-based journal, indeed there is no ISSN(Online) number).

Indeed, there are strong indications as mentioned by Mohammed O. Al-Amr that this journal is fake:

-The journal used to be a subscription-based journal presumably till 2018/19 after this the company has been taken over by two subsequent other players and now claims to be open access (although so far only the abstracts are visible)

-The journal nowadays does no mention any publisher behind it (strongly suggesting to me that the original journal stopped)

-According to the SCImago comments the journal is currently under investigation by Scopus

Perhaps the most convincing evidence is to take a look at an original example of a paper in 1997 and a presumably fake example of a paper in 2020 (see enclosed files).

So pretty sure that this is another sad example of a hijacked journal. So, I would say avoid.

Best regards.

PS. I will include this journal in my recent examples of hijacked journals (not (yet) included in the list of known examples: https://beallslist.net/hijacked-journals/): https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_very_misleading_type_of_scam_Anyone_with_recent_examples

Be aware! It is a fake journal.

Dear Neelam Swarnkar ,

The journal “Solid State Technology” is/used to be published by “PennWell Publishing Corp.”

The Scopus indexing seems real: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/27209 (update 20-1-2020 the coverage stopped in 2018). However according to comments on the SCImago site about this journal some say that the site “ http://solidstatetechnology.us/index.php/JSST ” is a cloned version of the original subscription journal. I was unable to find the original site (presumably this journal never had an internet presence as subscription-based journal, indeed there is no ISSN(Online) number).

Indeed, there are strong indications as mentioned by Mohammed O. Al-Amr that this journal is fake:

-The journal used to be a subscription-based journal presumably till 2018/19 after this the company has been taken over by two subsequent other players and now claims to be open access (although so far only the abstracts are visible)

-The journal nowadays does no mention any publisher behind it (strongly suggesting to me that the original journal stopped)

-According to the SCImago comments the journal is currently under investigation by Scopus

Perhaps the most convincing evidence is to take a look at an original example of a paper in 1997 and a presumably fake example of a paper in 2020 (see enclosed files).

So pretty sure that this is another sad example of a hijacked journal. So, I would say avoid.

Best regards.

PS. I will include this journal in my recent examples of hijacked journals (not (yet) included in the list of known examples: https://beallslist.net/hijacked-journals/): https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_very_misleading_type_of_scam_Anyone_with_recent_examples

Thanks sir

is it ANNEX 1 journal?

When Scopus indexing a journal, how can it be fake...?

Dear Basava Vamsi Krishna ,

It can be fake, while indexed in Scopus, for basically two reasons:

-Scopus is not flawless and do not directly detects (most of the times they will but it sometimes takes a way too long time) a fraudulent journal or publisher behind it. Notorious example is the publisher Blue Eyes, see: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are-these-journals-indexed-by-Scopus-IJEAT-IJRTE-and-IJITEE

-Or as you see in my reply of December 15th, 2020 in this case when you are dealing with a hijacked version of a genuine journal that ‘simply’ steal the indexing. Again, Scopus needs (most of the times) an awful long time before their quality/evaluation system this type of fraudulent activity.

Best regards.

Update: The Scopus site https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/27209 now mentioned that this title is discontinued and the coverage is till 2019.

I agree with Mr Rob Keller.

Genuine scopus journals are recreated as fake journals and we are redirected to those fake web sites.

Thanks to all.

Thanks Rob Keller for the information. So avoid this journal @Rogis Baker!

Thanks Rob Keller for your information.