Fake journals website.

This type of fake journal websites may send many spam E-mails to a very large number of unaware Internet users and researchers. If the fake journals use the name of a well-known journal and make up its site, then most of its advertisements include the following cases:

1. Name and its impact factor (the impact factor of the original journal is mentioned)

2. Notifying a limited period of time between the submission and peer review process (Generally less than a month)

3. Presenting the ISSN of the original journal

4. There is no mention of a peer review process or basic submission requirements.

5. There are articles listed but no evidence of an editorial board to review those articles.

6. Notifying that the journal is a multidisciplinary one

7. The journal has no address or contact information other than an email address listed.

8. There is no mention of an APF, which means you’ll likely receive an outrageous bill after your article has been rapidly accepted for publication

Dear Susmita Das ,

The real journal “Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science and Technology Edition)” is Scopus indexed (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/3300147401). According to Scopus their homepage is http://cdlgxyxb.periodicals.net.cn/(however this one does not seem to work properly).

It is a typical example of a hijacked journal. As far as I can see this is a subscription based journal exclusively in Chinese. The site you mention is already identified here https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/Apps1/User/Web/CloneJournalsGroupII as the cloned version. The proper homepage is http://www.xbzk.cdut.edu.cn/

Without the above knowledge there are still a number of red flags (some indicated by already Abhishek Kumar Sharma ):

-Indexing mentioned one of the so-called misleading metrics (https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/ ): CiteFactor

-Prominently mentioning an impact factor (of 6!) is false. You can check here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home that the journal with ISSN 1671-9727 is not indexed in SCIE or SSCI (so they have no impact factor at all)

-Contact info lacks physical address and uses a Gmail address (often used by predatory journals)

-Looking at some of their papers in the archive of the fake journal then I see that they are poorly edited, and the number of papers differ from the number of papers indexed in Scopus

So, I am afraid that you stumbled on a sad example of a hijacked journal. Avoid for sure.

Best regards.

Una alternativa es buscar en: SJR : Scientific Journal Rankings - Scimago.

Aquí están todas las revistas indexadas con seguridad, sin temor a que sea un fraude

Dear Germán Brito Sosa ,

Unfortunately, it is not true that SCImago is completely free of fraudulent journals (predatory or hijacked journals). This is because SCImago bases their ranking solely on what is provided by Scopus (and they are unfortunately not fully reliable) and another reason is because it is only updated ones a year (and in the meantime a lot can change).

The whole point is that Scopus is having difficulties to recognize and acting fast against predatory and hijacked journals and therefor 'pollutes' the SCImago database. See also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Scopus_doing_a_good_job_in_identifying_and_dealing_with_predatory_journals

https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_very_misleading_type_of_scam_Anyone_with_recent_examples

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Hijacked_journals_in_Scopus

Best regards.

How much will take time for publication journal of chengdu university of technology? Should I publish research paper from pharma background?

Dear Mrs Moushumi Baidya

Do read my reply of July 19th . Avoid this one.

Best regards.

Journal of Chengdu University of Technology having ISSN-NO- 1671-9727(Online), Is A Monthly Peer Reviewed Multi Disciplinary Journal. It Promotes Research, Innovation And New Ideas In Various Fields Of Technology .It Is a Scholarly Online, Open Access, Peer-Reviewed, Interdisciplinary, Monthly, and Fully Referred Journal Focusing On Theories, Methods And Applications In Technology And Relevant Fields For Journal Paper Publication.

Yes, it is a Scopus indexed Journal. Link: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/3300147401

Is this a good journal? Why is it not opening from the Scopus home page? Is this a real journal?

Madam,

Hope you know regarding UGC CARE list where you find " Real UGC approved journals and UGC listed Cloned Journals".

The Journal you are interested in "Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science and Technology Edition)" is listed as Cloned Journal by UGC (serial number 16) (Please go through the link: https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/Apps1/User/Web/CloneJournalsGroupII ).

Please go through my attached 'Fact check" file and you will find the differences between real and fake journal URL

Real( http://www.xbzk.cdut.edu.cn/ ) and Fake ( http://cdujournal.com/ ).

Note: All of this means that if you publish in a bogus/fake/cloned journal, no university will approve PhD thesis or even consider for promotion, and so on.