Reliability of Hijacked Journal Detection Based on Scientometrics, Altmetric Tools, and Web Informatics: A Case Report Using Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus

Table 1

A hijacked journal for the case study (data were collected in Dec. 2018).

Journal name	Indexing	ISSN	Original website	Fake website
Journal of Engineering Technology^∗	WoS (SCIE/JCR) Scopus EBSCO	0747–9964	N/A,	http://www.joetsite.com

This journal mainly publishes extended versions of some conference papers presented at conferences of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). We could not find it in 2019; however, it seems that the website does not exist. Only some of titles published by real journal can be found as conference versions on the ASEE website; for example, see the case ordered as 7th in Figure 3 (by Sriraman et al., 2017) via this link https://www.asee.org/public/conferences/78/papers/17663/view#). Based on the Scopus record through ScimagoJR, the main website of this journal is https://www.engtech.org/jet; however, we could not approve it in 2019 through its contents.