Webinar on fake cloned and predatory journals in academics organized

Jalandhar: The PG Department of Journalism & Mass Communications of Doaba College, Jalandhar in collaboration with IQAC organized a webinar entitled Decluttering the Clutter- Fake, Cloned and Predatory Journals in Academics. 

Dr. Sumit Narula, Amity School of Communication & Director Amity University, Gwalior graced the occasion as resource person.  He was accorded a hearty welcome by Principal Dr. Naresh Kumar Dhiman, Prof. Sandeep Chahal-IQAC Coordinator, Dr. Simran Sidhu, Head, Faculty and 89 participants. Dr. Sumit Narula demonstrated with hands on training the difference between fake, cloned and predatory journals by using internet tool viz Scopus Links, UGC Care List, Digital Object Identifier, ORCID, Bibliometric analysis and identifying cloned websites. 

Dr. Sumit said that in such fake and cloned journals there is no deadline for the submission of research paper and they print it within 24 hours, such journals are published in all 12 months, there is no contact detail of editor and the names in the editorial board are without requisite profiles, such journals unnecessarily use UGC and Scopus Logos in their websites which is against norms.  

Dr. Sumit emphasized that all resources should make their ORSID i.e. digital identity so that no one should be able to copy their research and should also take help of Google alert internet tool to safeguard themselves. He also discussed in detail the other relevant terminology viz impact factor, citation index, h-index, GIF etc. used in research.