Fake/Bogus Conferences: Their Features and Some Subtle Ways to Differentiate Them from Real Ones

Amin Asadi; Nader Rahbar; Mohammad Javad Rezvani; Fahime Asadi

doi:10.1007/s11948-017-9906-2

Fake/Bogus Conferences: Their Features and Some Subtle Ways to Differentiate Them from Real Ones

Sci Eng Ethics. 2018 Apr;24(2):779-784. doi: 10.1007/s11948-017-9906-2. Epub 2017 Apr 10.

Authors

Amin Asadi^{1

2}, Nader Rahbar^{3

4}, Mohammad Javad Rezvani⁵, Fahime Asadi⁶

Affiliations

¹ Young Researchers and Elite Club, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, P. O. Box 35196-97951, Semnan, Iran. Ams@et.aau.dk.
² Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Pontoppidanstraede 111, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark. Ams@et.aau.dk.
³ Young Researchers and Elite Club, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, P. O. Box 35196-97951, Semnan, Iran. Rahbar@semnaniau.ac.ir.
⁴ Energy and Sustainable Development Research Center, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran. Rahbar@semnaniau.ac.ir.
⁵ Energy and Sustainable Development Research Center, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran.
⁶ Department of Sport Science, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, P. O. Box 35196-97951, Semnan, Iran.

PMID: 28397173
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-017-9906-2

Abstract

The main objective of the present paper is to introduce some features of fake/bogus conferences and some viable approaches to differentiate them from the real ones. These fake/bogus conferences introduce themselves as international conferences, which are multidisciplinary and indexed in major scientific digital libraries. Furthermore, most of the fake/bogus conference holders offer publishing the accepted papers in ISI journals and use other techniques in their advertisement e-mails.

Keywords: Bogus conference; Conference; Conference features; Fake; Real conferences.

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research*
Congresses as Topic*
Deception*
Electronic Mail
Fraud / prevention & control*
Humans
Publishing