Table 3.

Integrity issues in predatory journals[32]

The name of predatory journals is not in accordance to journals scope, mission, and their true origin, e.g., a journal with country name like Australian, Swiss, or Canadian has no publisher, editor, or any institutional affiliate related to country name mentioned in journals’ name

These journals are often found indulging in unethical practices like either displaying fake Thomson-Reuters impact factors even when they are not registered or display impact factors assigned by fake “impact factor” services to deceive the young and inexperienced researchers

Publishers of these journals often send spam requests to young and unqualified scholars to peer-review submitted manuscripts which are beyond the expertise of unqualified scholars

Predatory publisher tries to deceive young inexperienced researchers by falsely claiming that their journal contents are indexed in legitimate abstracting and indexing services or even try to claim contents to be indexed in services with fake cooked up names which either do not exist or if they exist they are not involved in abstracting or indexing services

Predatory publisher often asks the corresponding author for suggesting reviewers and often seeks help of these suggested reviewers without sufficiently enquiring or analyzing their qualifications or authenticity