When we want to check the novelty and reputation of journals, we go to Thomson Reuters (or as known now, Clarivate Analytics) and SCOPUS data bases. But, I found some of the fake journals in SCOPUS. Do you agree with me?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_Scopus?
Scopus data is periodically updated and accepted. But I do not think there is a real assessment like Thomson Reuters. I agree with you some( very rare) of them is a fake journals.
Regards,
Actually it is very difficult to officially verify the criteria by which predatory journals can be segregated from good journals.
SCOPUS is too expensive and not fair as the indicator of a success academic one.
Dear Dr. Anees,
It is hard to identify the forged journals in a database of highly reputed publishing house. What are the criteria for demarcation? I have no knowledge.
It is known to all that ‘Scopus’ is abstract and citation database of ‘Elsevier' and supposed to be the largest database of peer-reviewed literature (scientific journals, books and conference proceedings). How “Elsevier” will allow a predatory journal to be a part of their database?
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In my opinion, first of all I think the name of fake journal does not really reflect the weakness of published article since some time there is a novelty paper might publish in that journals and the paper novelty basically depend on how paper ideas that deal with the real problem in our life which was stated in that research. Secondly, Scopus is just representing database and show cite-score of the journal depends on the three-years citation.
Scopus is not as much reliable as web of science. Scopus database include many predatory journals. However, the more important than the 'predatory journals' itself is, the work being published should not be 'predatory work'.
There are many excellent works that are not accepted in good scientific journals because of the excessive zeal of the reviewers. The most important thing is that the author does the most serious work as possible with scientific honesty. Regardless of the journal's reputation, a good paper will be cited. I agree with Ihsan Habib Dakhil and Yahia Z Hamada.
Can't say the cases exsist in the Scopus indexed Journal, only. However I do agree Journal's indexing process being longer-term in web of science database than Scopus. Both database having inclusion criteria with periodicals evaluation. The mechanism are similar with few exceptions. I think better to have trust on externally impartial boards, specifically assigned to recognize the fake Journal and carefully cite while we report scientific evidence.
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