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legitimate journals. In contrast to predatory journals, clone journals are more likely to accept papers
from authors, since they have developed as the mirror image of reputable journals, including their
domain name. Usually, they receive massive attention through claiming that they have earned high
impact factors from reputable indexing agencies such as Web of Science and Scopus.
Database: Organized collections of computerized information or data such as periodical articles,
books, graphics, and multimedia that can be searched to retrieve information.

Fabrication: Data fabrication means the researcher did not actually do the study, but made up data.

Falsification: Data falsification means the researcher did the experiment, but then changed some of
the data. Both of these practices make people distrust scientists.

Hijacked Journals: Duplicate or fake websites of legitimate ones utilizing the title, ISSN and other information of
the reputable journal. They are often created by a malicious third party for the purpose of fraudulently offering
academicians the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee.
Impact Factor (IF): is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been
cited in a particular year. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the
times it’s articles are cited.

Index: A listing of names, places, and specific topics in alphabetical order, with page numbers
associated with each topic, at the end of a book.

Citation index: Citation indexing, CI, is a kind of bibliographical data base, an index of cita-
tions between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite
which earlier documents C I consists of the charting of the text details of each such references.
It makes links between books and articles that were written in the past and articles that make
reference to (“cite”) these older publications.
g-Index: An index for quantifying scientific productivity based on publication record. The in-
dex is calculated based on the distribution of citations received by a given researcher’s publica-
tions. The g-index gives more weight to highly-cited articles.

h-index: is an index to quantify an individual’s research output. The h-index is an index
that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a
scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the researcher’s most cited papers and the
number of citations that they have received in other people’s publications.
Journal Citation Report: provides ranking for journals in the areas of science, technology, and social
sciences. For every journal covered, the following information is collected or calculated: Citation and
article counts, Impact Factor, Immediacy index, cited half-life, citing half-life, source data listing,
citing journal listing, cited journal listing, subject categories, Publisher information.
Moving Wall: The time period between the last issue of an academic journal available in a given online
database and the most recently published print issue of a journal. A moving wall is a set period of time
(usually three to five years) between a journal issue’s publication date and its availability as archival
content.

Multiple Submission: Submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal at the
same time. Doing this wastes the time of editors and peer reviewers and can damage the reputa-
tion of journals if published in more than one.

OpenAccess (OA): refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open Access scholarly literature
is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally
published works, for both the users and the authors.

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