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 Volume 9, Issue 4 (April 2022), Pages: 6-14

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Publishing in hijacked Web of Science journals: Analytical and legal study

 Author(s): Ayman Nawwaf Sharif Alhawawsheh 1, *, Yaser Mohamad Mohamad Al Sawy 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Criminal Law Department, College of Law, American University in the Emirates, Dubai, UAE
 2College of Education and Arts, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0356-1896

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.04.002

 Abstract:

This study aimed at a legal and scientific analysis of the plagiarized journals within the Web of Science system, in a time when the phenomenon of plagiarism and piracy spread to the titles of scientific and humanities magazines. Researchers sought to analyze the concept of plagiarism of international scientific journals based on its definition in scientific publishing, its dimensions and danger at the academic level of the researcher, and the academic and institutional level of the university. It also analyzed the types of plagiarism that include cloning, copying, substitution, mixing, and repetition as well as the scientific publishing of forged magazines that are no less dangerous and effective than the spoofed magazines. The study obtained several results, the most important of which is the risk for researchers to lose academic promotion and face direct penalties that hinder their path when appropriating funds through unaccredited scientific publications. The study has also reached specific criteria that the researcher must adhere to when seeking publication, the most important of which is the use of accredited websites of scientific journals and international publishers. 

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Hijacked journals, Forged scientific publication, Fake journals, Academic advancement, Web of Science

 Article History: Received 20 October 2021, Received in revised form 22 January 2022, Accepted 1 February 2022

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Alhawawsheh ANS and Al Sawy YMM (2022). Publishing in hijacked Web of Science journals: Analytical and legal study. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(4): 6-14

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