My journal was hijacked: an editor’s experience

Sune Dueholm Müller, professor at the University of Oslo and editor-in-chief, reports his experience, also described in this article, of the hijacking of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems.

Hijacked journals are scam websites that impersonate legitimate journals and attempt to take over their brand. A list including hundreds of these fake sites can be found at the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. By stealing the brand, web domain, or the serial number used to identify a publication, cybercriminals try to lure researchers into paying for publications.

Read also the methods used to locate or confirm hijacked statuses of journals.