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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

How did content from a hijacked journal end up in one of the world’s most-used databases?

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How did content from a hijacked journal end up in one of the world’s most-used databases?

Published:
Retraction Watch, 1 September 2020

From the article:
In October 2019, I discovered that the Scopus profile of the journal Transylvanian Review contained numerous faked articles. How did I know? A few years ago, a legitimate Scopus indexed journal, Transylvanian Review, was hijacked and listed on the well-known — but controversial — Beall’s List of predatory and unscrupulous publishers.