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Warning About a Hijacked Social Psychology Journal
Posted by:
Jeffrey Beall
Title/Position:
Scholarly Communications Librarian
School/Organization:
University of Colorado Denver
Sent to listserv of:
SESP, SPSSI
Date posted:
May 14th, 2015
I am writing to report a case of journal hijacking and to warn social psychology researchers to avoid submitting papers to the counterfeit journal.
Journal hijackings occur when someone creates a counterfeit website for a legitimate journal and then begins to solicit (via spam) and accept manuscripts for publication as if it were the legitimate journal.
In this case, the journal is: La Revue internationale de psychologie sociale (RIPS) = International Review of Social Psychology, ISSN 0992-986X.
The legitimate version of the journal is chiefly a print publication. It is published by the Association pour la Diffusion de la Recherche Internationale en Psychologie Sociale and distributed by the Presses universitaires de Grenoble (PUG).