Top 10 tips: How to identify fake research journals (SciTech Videos: Episode 6)

A 1-minute-long video showing you how to identify dubious research journals. Here's the transcript:

1. Fake journals guarantee (rapid) acceptance.
2. Their websites are really creepy.
3. The editorial board members do not exist or belong to mediocre universities.
4. Fake journal websites are full of grammatical errors!
5. The street address is mostly fictitious
6. The phone number connects you to someone who is clueless.
7. Fake journals get submissions from really obscure universities.
8. Fake journals websites display fictitious (non-thomson-reuters) impact factors.
9. They also falsely claim scopus indexing/other indexing.
10. Previously published articles are fake/low quality and the only intention is to make money!

Select your journals wisely. Check out the two links copied below for your reference and use them as a guideline to choose journals:

Journals with Thomson-Reuters Impact Factors (US metric):

Journals with SCImago Journal Rankings (European metric):

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