Relevant Terms & Concepts
APC - Article Processing Charge: the fee authors pay to publish articles with articles open access.
Hijacked journals: Legitimate journals whose website and/or brand has been taken over or copied by a predatory journal.
Impact Factor: A bibliometric indicator trademarked by Clarivate Analytics.It is calculated based on the average number of citations of articles published in the two preceding years. Read more under Impact Factor in the menu.
Indexing: Journals are selected for listing in a database. Database users can then find articles in those journals. Articles indexed in popular subject databases such as ERIC and Cinhal or citation databases like Web of Science and Scopus get better dissemination than articles that can only be found in Google Scholar etc.
Misleading and fake metrics: Shady bibliometric indicators. They might use Google Scholar (rather than a real citation database that does quality control on included journals) to calculate their scores, or neglect to share any information on how said scores are even calculated. Some fake metrics use the term "impact factor" even though this is trademarked by Clarivate Analytics.
Open Journal System (OJS): A platform for open access publishing. It is designed to make it easy and convenient to publish open access content, and is used by many journals published by universities.
