Scam alert!!!
I recently submitted a manuscript to a journal, the work was evaluated, corrected and approved. The publication fee was paid and when the work was published it was "strange". I investigated further and discovered that the journal was fake, that is, I had just fallen for a scam. Be careful when submitting an article to Agrociencia (a Mexican Journal that is even listed on the web of sceince), as there is a fake website operating deceiving researchers (https://www.colopos.mx/).
I'm sharing this so that my colleagues can pay close attention, after twenty years of career and dozens of articles published for the first time I was deceived in this way!!!
Has anything similar ever happened to you?
Dear Bruno Sampaio Sant'Anna ,
Indeed, according to the best and frequently updated site of identified hijacked journal titles (https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-hijacked-journal-checker/ ) the fake website is http://www.colopos.mx The fake website calls the journal “Agrociencia Journal” while the genuine and legit journal is called “Agrociencia” (see also the announcement at the real website https://www.agrociencia-colpos.org/index.php/agrociencia/announcement ).
The confusion is understandable because of what these fraudsters highly misleadingly have done. Their site with colopos in it is named very much like the genuine site of the organization CP (Colegio de Postgraduados) https://www.colpos.mx/cp/ if you scroll down on this legit site then you end up with the four journals they publish, including Agrociencia. If you click on the logo you end up with https://www.colpos.mx/cp/revista-agrociencia and if you click on the right at “Get in” you end up with the earlier mentioned real site https://agrociencia-colpos.org/index.php/agrociencia
Unfortunately, you are not the only victim of these criminal practices, see for other examples here on RG for example:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Fake_Journal_Alert
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Authenticity_of_the_journal-The_Seybold_Report
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Reporting_of_Predatory_Journal
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Journal_high-jacking_a_new_aspect_of_the_publish_or_perish_culture
Best regards.
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