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

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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.

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  1. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, P. O. Box 35196-97951, Semnan, Iran

    Amin Asadi & Nader Rahbar

  2. Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Pontoppidanstraede 111, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark

    Amin Asadi

  3. Energy and Sustainable Development Research Center, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran

    Nader Rahbar & Mohammad Javad Rezvani

  4. Department of Sport Science, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, P. O. Box 35196-97951, Semnan, Iran

    Fahime Asadi

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Asadi, A., Rahbar, N., Rezvani, M.J. et al. Fake/Bogus Conferences: Their Features and Some Subtle Ways to Differentiate Them from Real Ones. Sci Eng Ethics 24, 779–784 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9906-2

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