title: Fake/Bogus Conferences: Their Features and Some Subtle Ways to Differentiate Them from Real Ones.
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.
authors.affiliation: Young Researchers and Elite Club, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, P. O. Box 35196-97951, Semnan, Iran. Ams@et.aau.dk.|Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Pontoppidanstraede 111, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark. Ams@et.aau.dk.
authors.forename: Amin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asadi
authors.affiliation: Young Researchers and Elite Club, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, P. O. Box 35196-97951, Semnan, Iran. Rahbar@semnaniau.ac.ir.|Energy and Sustainable Development Research Center, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran. Rahbar@semnaniau.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Nader
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9257-6458
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rahbar
authors.affiliation: Energy and Sustainable Development Research Center, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Javad
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rezvani
authors.affiliation: Department of Sport Science, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, P. O. Box 35196-97951, Semnan, Iran.
authors.forename: Fahime
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Asadi
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D008192:Deception; D034742:Electronic Mail; D005607:Fraud / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing
keywords: Bogus conference; Conference; Conference features; Fake; Real conferences