Affiliation:
1. School of Political Studies University of Ottawa Ottawa Ontario Canada
2. Department of Government and Politics University College Cork Cork Ireland
Abstract
Key points
This article highlights two types of publishing fraud: fake acceptance letter and financial fraud.
Prepared by a third party, fake acceptance letters affirm that a paper, which we had never received before, has been accepted by IPSR.
In the financial fraud case, a third party pretends to be an editor of IPSR, sends out authentic looking fake acceptance letters and then solicits authors to pay an article processing fee (APC).
Subject
Communication,Library and Information Sciences