A New Challenge in the Academic World: Earning Real Money and Eminence by Paper Publishing

Nowadays, the academic world is faced with different challenges such as hijacked journals (Jalalian, 2014; Jalalian and Mahboobi, 2014; Dadkhah et al., 2015), bogus impact factors (Jalalian and Mahboobi, 2013), social engineering (Dadkhah and Quliyeva, 2014; Krombholz, 2014), and fake conferences. There are other tricks and non-academic behaviors that we will introduce in this letter to familiarize editors and researchers with them. Although the academic world has many advantages it is an area for jobber people to make money; many people exploit researchers and trick them to earn money. On the other hand, some researchers ignore academic principles and act, in contrast, with these principles. In the following few pages, we will introduce some of the new challenges in the academic world.