Journal phishings - identification approaches

Open access publishing of scientific results enables a diverse range of publications to reach users of scientific information. This increases the accessibility of science, but also creates the preconditions for unethical practices in scientific publishing related to the emergence of structures that duplicate elements of the referencing, indexing, and evaluation system. The present paper focuses on one of these challenges, namely the emergence of fake versions of authentic scientific journals. The term was first introduced in early 2012 and means stealing the prestige of legitimate scientific journals by building fake websites. The discovery of such unethical and criminal practices is the only existing action against this type of academic cybercrime. This requires researchers to make informed and particularly careful choices when submitting their publications to ensure that the journals are authentic