An Introduction to Journal Phishings and Their Detection Approach

Nowadays, the most important risk and challenge in online system are online scam and phishing attacks. Phishing attacks have been always used to steal important information of users. In this kind of scam, attacker direct victim to fake pages using social engineering techniques, then, starts stealing users` important information such as passwords. In order to confronting these attacks, numerous techniques have been invented which have the ability to confront different kinds of these attacks. Our goal in this paper is to introducing new kind of phishing attacks which are not identifiable by techniques and methods which have been invented to confronting phishing attacks. Unlike other kinds of phishing attacks which target all kinds of users, researchers are the victims of these kinds of journal phishing attacks. Finally, we`ll introduce an approach based on classification algorithms to identify these kind of journal phishing attacks and then we`ll check our suggested approach in error rate

Fake Conferences for Earning Real Money

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2p1

Affiliation Oriented Journals: Don’t Worry About Peer Review If You Have Good Affiliation

There has been a growing concern about fraud peer review articles that have been published in some journals in favor of their authors' affiliation, which have been discussed extensively by some researchers. This research paper introduces a new another challenge in academic world concerning journals’ editors who look at authors' affiliations rather than papers' contents. In this short paper, we will introduce this alarming problem and do an experimental test by submitting computer generated papers to some journals and finally present the results of our experiment. The paper is an expression of our concern about providing for maximum high ethics in and quality of publication policy of modern scientific journals

Severity of post-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass dumping syndrome and weight loss outcomes: is there any correlation?

Bariatric surgery; Gastric bypass; Weight lossCirugía bariátrica; Bypass gástrico; Pérdida de pesoCirurgia bariàtrica; Bypass gàstric; Pèrdua de pesPurpose The present research was conducted to evaluate the effect of the severity of dumping syndrome (DS) on weight loss outcomes after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) in patients with class III obesity. Methods The present retrospective cohort study used the dumping symptom rating scale (DSRS) to evaluate the severity of DS and its correlation with weight loss outcomes in 207 patients 1 year after their RYGB. The patients were assigned to group A with mild-to-moderate DS or group B with severe DS. Results The mean age of the patients was 42.18 ± 10.46 years and their mean preoperative BMI 42.74 ± 5.59 kg/m2. The total weight loss percentage (%TWL) in group B was insignificantly higher than that in group A, but besides that was not significantly different in the two groups. Conclusion The present findings suggested insignificant relationships between the presence and severity of DS after RYGB and adequate postoperative weight loss.Open Access Funding provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Special issues as criterion for journal quality evaluation: Letter to editor

Predatory publishers are defined as publishers who have financial goals. This definition was introduced for the first time by Jeffrey Beall (2012). In some predatory publishers, we can find some papers that are not related to journal's aim and scope. These journals create special issues in order to publish papers that are not related to journal's aim and scope. Thus, we are faced with a question of how the editor of these journals could evaluate these papers. In some trusted journals, editor invites guest editors for special issues, which are related to journal's aim and scope. On the other hand predatory publishers, publish papers without any external reviewers or guest editors. In addition, some journals that publish irrelevant papers in regular issues are also found. This problem can be seen especially in some biological or life science journals. It seems that these problems pose new challenge for the academic world