The International Journal of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (IJDRBC) has been exposed as a clone journal—a substandard journal that copies the name of a reputable one—containing fake papers written by over 400 Pakistani academics. This is a reflection of the academic integrity of most Pakistani professionals, and shamefully so. We already make limited contributions to the world of academics in comparison to the world and if those are deceitful as well then this is to our detriment.
https://nation.com.pk/17-Jan-2022/academic-integrity
The IJDRBC contained research compiled by individuals across various fields including both the private and public sector. The authors either knew the fact that it was a clone journal and proceeded to publish their work anyways or were deceived themselves. Regardless of which situation it was, the matter remains that the papers themselves were fake as well. In reality, this meant that substandard and unoriginal work was published in a journal that has no international or local recognition. If this is the state of our academic output, then our higher education sector is in immense trouble.
The Higher Education Commission’s Journal Recognition System (HJRS) exists for a reason; to gain legitimacy and for contributors to know where their work will end up. Special care should be given to this process of verification by the HEC as well as the scholars themselves. For 400 authors to send their work for publishing in the journal entails that it was rather well-known in the academic circle. This should have been picked up by the HEC and an investigation should have been launched. Similarly, those authors who were deceived themselves should have checked the verification of the journal themselves as well. It is vital that stringent measures are taken now at least as there is open knowledge of such tradition in the country.
The HEC must curb this phenomenon at the earliest. Our higher education standards will suffer without the presence of any reputable original work. Furthermore, this paints a rather disheartening picture for future scholars who may be put on the backfoot purely because our systems have not worked well enough to legitimise the world of local academic research. More must be done to improve standards.
Is this real or fake?:
https://submission.nadiapub.com/index.php/ijdrbc/information/readers
For sure fake for so many reasons...
How about this site? Real or fake?:
https://nadiapub.com/journals/ijdrbc/
Croatian editor and Tasmanian business address....hmmmmmm
Real or fake?:
https://ores.su/en/journals/international-journal-of-disaster-recovery-and-business-continuity/
Names are the same but the ISSNs are different...
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