Like the social media posts, some studies published in scientific journals may be published as fake or articles that have no scientific equivalent. The journals in which these articles are published are also popular in the scientific world.looter magazineis defined as ‘.

Today we are sadly here with the event that is seen in almost every country around the world and how dangerous this path can be that many scientists follow to gain fame and points. A researcher is interested in publishing articles in predatory magazines and maybe this way how easy it can be to get a professorship revealed.

“Scientific” journals put to the test with fake research:

One researcher, an assistant professor of entomology at National Taiwan University, said:Matan Schlomica test conducted under the pseudonym ”. Matan’s goal was to do the most ridiculous research imaginable, use the most ridiculous references and see if it would get published in predatory magazines.

Matan has been working in 2019 and 2020 and published his first manufactured article in December 2019. In March 2020, he expanded his work and managed to publish two more fabricated articles in two different journals. Any of these items They were articles that somehow connected the Pokémon universe to life and biology.

The fabricated articles that Matan got published and the magazines in which they were published:

“Indigenous people keep a few animals in close collaboration with their families, with children as young as ten years herding, hunting, selective breeding and even training animals for ritual combat. One in particular, Ascofregata purine (Heveaceae: Tetrabalonoformes), or “jigglypuff“, is peridomestic and used by acoustic biologists as a “competition song”, “extinction song”, “keeper of friends” […] He is known to have produced several songs characterized by titles such as

Cyllage City was actually one of the cities in the Pokémon universe…

“The proto-oncogenic Pokémon is usually overexpressed in cancers, and the Pikachurin protein is associated with ribbon synapses in the retina.”

As you can see from the three examples above, these magazines didn’t actually intend to read Matan’s research before publishing it. They didn’t even read the references, let alone read the whole thing. Because Matan also talked about his creative nonsense in the references, even in the references section. He even recorded John Cena’s name… Some sample references in the studies were as follows:

• Rings on Standler (Pokémon) Horns, Frontiers in Fake Research
• Imagine there is no open access. My little peer-reviewed journal. (My Little Peer Review Diary)
• What do they call a predatory magazine in France? Pulp non-fiction.
• If you’ve come this far, you’ve earned a cookie. Pokemon Phylogenetics.

It was alleged that Academia Publishing, the publisher of one of the predatory magazines, was also used by many academics from Turkey:

Academic Ethics Turkey hosted the “research” of many Turkish academics by Academia Publishing, which published the research on Pokémon proteins on its Twitter account. In addition, the magazine Education-Sen in 2017 as a “Journal Recommendation for Those Who Will Publish in a Foreign Language”. It was also shared:

So, how do you know if a magazine is a looter?

About predatory magazines, one of the most fundamental problems of science around the world. Council for Higher Educationmade an official decision. On December 10, 2021, the Board of Directors of the Interuniversity Council met and approved the following points:

• Magazines not considered predatory/questionable:
  • Journals in classes Q1, Q2, Q3 in WEB or Science (with or without costs for editorial and/or printing processes),
  • Journals that are in the Q4 class of WEB of Science and do not charge editorial processing costs and/or article processing costs,
  • It is in the Q4 class of WEB of Science and has been published/published since 2010, the publishing body of an industry association, university, institute or scientific institution where only the members of the relevant field of science can join, although it charges editorial and /or printing processes in charge of national/international journals working as
• Predatory/dubious journals: Q4 journals that do not meet the above criteria.

Aside from WEB of Science, which is also referenced by YÖK, you can also browse Beall’s List for magazines and publishers deemed predatory/questionable.