How to identify fake/ predatory/ cloned journals in academics
“Writing Impactful Research (WIR)” programme conducted by the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka in association with Emerald Publishing and Gulf Medical University from 22nd April 2021 to 05th August 2021 through GoToWebinar Platform. Resource Person of s ession 16 was Dr. Sumit Narula. He is the Deputy Dean Research (Publication and Citations) at the Amity University, India has given fifteen Crucial Point Checklists on 05 August 2021 session. Most Fake/Predatory/Cloned journals will not have any submission deadline. They will always charge money and will give you early publications. Most of them will be having multiple journals doing the same job. They also use the cloned websites with same logo and ISSN number. They have fake stamps of SCOPUS or Web of Science. Google indexing is very easy and there is no science involved in it and it is not useful anywhere in academics, but it gives you more citations. Always see the UGC CARE List and SCOPUS DATA before submitting to any journal