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Comment on A Curious Case of a Hijacked Journal, or Just a Title Change? by herr doktor bimler

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The National Library of Australia catalog has an entry for the Australian journal of that name, listing it as beginning in 2005 (it also provides an e-address for the Australian publisher), with no further information.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17634115?q=+&versionId=20683348

A little more Googling found references to papers from the 2005 issue. My guess is that it quickly went moribund, inspiring unknown scammers — who may or may not be based in the UAE — to start up their own website, using the old ISSN because who’s going to stop them?

The first few papers I looked at, in the first few issues, all seem to have been scraped from low-level or predatory journals elsewhere on the http://WWW... perhaps on the theory that such journals are less likely to notice or complain about plagiarism.


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