It starts with some background
The China/Asia On Demand (CAOD) site (https://caod.oriprobe.com/index.htm) uses the name “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research” with ISSN 1674-0440. A real Chinese subscription-based journal https://caod.oriprobe.com/journals/gwyx-yxfc/INTERNATIONAL_JOURNAL_OF_PHARMACEUTICAL_RESEARCH.htm
However, the ISSN nr. 1674-0440 uses “Guoji yaoxue yanjiu zazhi” https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1674-0440 and is linked to the same Chinese subscription-based journal but now uses the name “Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research” (http://202.38.153.236:81/Jweb_jipr/EN/article/showOldVolumn.do does not seem to work well but indicate its true existence). See also enclosed pictures (bit poor resolution but the best I was able to pick up).
If you ‘Google’ for example the paper with the title “Alliin and related active components:research advances” you see both titles popping up so indeed both are the same. The “Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research” ISSN 1674-0440 is Scopus indexed: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100881509 which seems to correspond to the above mentioned genuine Chinese subscription-based journal.
Then the deception starts...
However, this journal is hijacked by “Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research” using the same ISSN nr. 1674-0440: http://ijprjournals.com/ with contact: [email protected]
Since 2009 there is a journal with the similar name as the genuine Chinese one “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (IJPR)”, but with a different ISSN 0975-2366 that seems to be indexed in Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700174645 This journal “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (IJPR)” with ISSN 0975-2366 (http://ijpronline.com/Default.aspx ) presents itself as a subscription-based journal though all papers can be found on RG and/or Academia.edu and once submitting https://www.ejmanager.com/my/ijpr/ it appears you have to pay fee which is misleading and dubious. They use a SCImago link (with a picture of the wrong journal “Journal of international pharmaceutical research”): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700174645&tip=sid&exact=no
I predict that this journal will be discontinued soon, since last year they ‘all of a sudden’ published 690 papers in 2019 and 2488 papers in 2020 (while it ‘normally’ was round 50 or so).
So:
http://ijprjournals.com/ fake and hijacked version of the real one with ISSN 1674-0440
http://ijpronline.com/Default.aspx predatory and one better stay away from (presumably they will lose their Scopus indexing).
Best regards.
PS. Both the IJPRonline site and SCImago make a mess out of it since they depict the image of “Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research” ISSN 1674-0440: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100881509 while they talk about “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research”.
See for all the (at least to my knowledge) recent and not yet included examples of hijacked journals: https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_very_misleading_type_of_scam_Anyone_with_recent_examples
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The people at Scopus should hire me 😊 In the recent update of the list of discontinued titles in Scopus (see enclosed file) the journal “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research” (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700174645 ) is now discontinued.
PS. Unfortunately, Scopus is not that fast in correcting/updating the Scopus sources site (but will happen soon).
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Dear Robe I completly agree with you and I contacted scopus for this malpractice and they discontinue the journal from the data base but the problem that the Scopus coverage includes previous volumes which is fake and with out peer review and published by agents. It is real disaster
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Munad
Dear Munad Jihad AL_Duliamy ,
The way that Scopus is handling this type of matters indeed often ends up in a mess. For example, to date the journal “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research” is still indexed according to the Scopus sources link: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700174645 while the latest list of discontinued titles of February 2021 includes this title.
If you look at for example: https://www.researchgate.net/post/About_Scopus_database then it is clear that Scopus needs an awful lot of time to sort things out and to correct the proper papers that should be indexed and those that are not.
What I see is that Scopus first evaluate, then if negative discontinue a title, after that it adjust the info about discontinuing the title in the Scopus sources link and after that (tries to) correct the proper coverage info and eventually correct the proper indexing of individual papers (somewhat…).
Unfortunately, even if this is performed properly by Scopus it takes way too long. Close to a disaster indeed. This pretty much ask for better evaluation of the initial inclusion as is also concluded in the following (excellent) paper:
Macháček, V., Srholec, M. Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences. Scientometrics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03852-4
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