2022/09/10 by Anna Abalkina, Abalkina, Anna, Guillaume Cabanac +5
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Academic integrity and plagiarism #Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2209.04703
openalex publication_date 2022/09/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The goal is to study the prevalence of citajacked papers: papers in authentic scientific journals citing hijacked journals, in academic literature. A Citejacked detector was designed as a part of the Problematic Paper Screener (https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/problematic-paper-screener/citejacked) to trace if the references to articles originating from hijacked journals infiltrate scientific communication. A full-text search was performed between November 2021 and January 2022 in the Dimensions database using the name of 1 of the 12 hijacked journals. The analysis of the bibliography in these articles revealed that 828 of them cite unreliable articles from hijacked journals. During 01.Jan.2021-31.Jan.2022, an average of 2 citejacked articles has been published daily in established journals. Given the limited number of titles included in this study, the phenomenon might be wider and is not yet systematically studied.