The growing threat of hijacked journals
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Mark L. Graber
and
Mario Plebani
The article by Mihaly, Dadkah, and David (Masquerade of Authority: Hijacked Journals Are Gaining More Credibility Than Original Ones), published in this issue of the Journal, is an important one both for the field of medical journalism and for our publication in particular. The authors describe how a rapidly expanding number of fake journals are appearing, now numbering in the hundreds.
This became personal for us, as one of these fake journals was a takeoff on our own journal, DIAGNOSIS. The fake journal used our same name, an official-looking web page, and lists of editors, papers and authors pulled from our own records. The fake journal website, while it was up and running (at www.diagnosisj.com) would easily fool an unsuspecting reader or author. The perpetrators of this fraud are not just playing a trick for fun on the unwary; the ultimate goal is almost certainly financial, hoping that someone will subscribe to the non-existent journal, or pay a fee for publication or for considering a manuscript. Thanks to quick action by the legal staff at our DeGruyter publishing house, the fake web site was taken down, though who knows for how long.
There is no reliable way to stop a fake journal; we can only hope that readers of our journal take note of this issue, and pay particular attention to direct all manuscripts through ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/diagnosis, and to view the real contents of current and past issues on the official DeGruyter website (https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/dx/html).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- The growing threat of hijacked journals
- Review
- Effects of SNAPPS in clinical reasoning teaching: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
- Mini Review
- Diagnostic value of D-dimer in differentiating multisystem inflammatory syndrome in Children (MIS-C) from Kawasaki disease: systematic literature review and meta-analysis
- Opinion Papers
- Masquerade of authority: hijacked journals are gaining more credibility than original ones
- FRAMED: a framework facilitating insight problem solving
- Algorithms in medical decision-making and in everyday life: what’s the difference?
- Original Articles
- Computerized diagnostic decision support systems – a comparative performance study of Isabel Pro vs. ChatGPT4
- Comparative analysis of diagnostic accuracy in endodontic assessments: dental students vs. artificial intelligence
- Assessing the Revised Safer Dx Instrument® in the understanding of ambulatory system design changes for type 1 diabetes and autism spectrum disorder in pediatrics
- The Big Three diagnostic errors through reflections of Japanese internists
- SASAN: ground truth for the effective segmentation and classification of skin cancer using biopsy images
- Computable phenotype for diagnostic error: developing the data schema for application of symptom-disease pair analysis of diagnostic error (SPADE)
- Development of a disease-based hospital-level diagnostic intensity index
- HbA1c and fasting plasma glucose levels are equally related to incident cardiovascular risk in a high CVD risk population without known diabetes
- Short Communications
- Can ChatGPT-4 evaluate whether a differential diagnosis list contains the correct diagnosis as accurately as a physician?
- Analysis of thicknesses of blood collection needle by scanning electron microscopy reveals wide heterogeneity
- Letters to the Editor
- For any disease a human can imagine, ChatGPT can generate a fake report
- The dilemma of epilepsy diagnosis in Pakistan
- The Japanese universal health insurance system in the context of diagnostic equity
- Case Report – Lessons in Clinical Reasoning
- Lessons in clinical reasoning – pitfalls, myths, and pearls: a case of tarsal tunnel syndrome caused by an intraneural ganglion cyst
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- The growing threat of hijacked journals
- Review
- Effects of SNAPPS in clinical reasoning teaching: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
- Mini Review
- Diagnostic value of D-dimer in differentiating multisystem inflammatory syndrome in Children (MIS-C) from Kawasaki disease: systematic literature review and meta-analysis
- Opinion Papers
- Masquerade of authority: hijacked journals are gaining more credibility than original ones
- FRAMED: a framework facilitating insight problem solving
- Algorithms in medical decision-making and in everyday life: what’s the difference?
- Original Articles
- Computerized diagnostic decision support systems – a comparative performance study of Isabel Pro vs. ChatGPT4
- Comparative analysis of diagnostic accuracy in endodontic assessments: dental students vs. artificial intelligence
- Assessing the Revised Safer Dx Instrument® in the understanding of ambulatory system design changes for type 1 diabetes and autism spectrum disorder in pediatrics
- The Big Three diagnostic errors through reflections of Japanese internists
- SASAN: ground truth for the effective segmentation and classification of skin cancer using biopsy images
- Computable phenotype for diagnostic error: developing the data schema for application of symptom-disease pair analysis of diagnostic error (SPADE)
- Development of a disease-based hospital-level diagnostic intensity index
- HbA1c and fasting plasma glucose levels are equally related to incident cardiovascular risk in a high CVD risk population without known diabetes
- Short Communications
- Can ChatGPT-4 evaluate whether a differential diagnosis list contains the correct diagnosis as accurately as a physician?
- Analysis of thicknesses of blood collection needle by scanning electron microscopy reveals wide heterogeneity
- Letters to the Editor
- For any disease a human can imagine, ChatGPT can generate a fake report
- The dilemma of epilepsy diagnosis in Pakistan
- The Japanese universal health insurance system in the context of diagnostic equity
- Case Report – Lessons in Clinical Reasoning
- Lessons in clinical reasoning – pitfalls, myths, and pearls: a case of tarsal tunnel syndrome caused by an intraneural ganglion cyst
