[Sigmetrics] CurrentScience Commentary | Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge for Researchers & Scientific Societies

[anup kumar das]

*Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge for Researchers & Scientific
Societies*
by Shahryar Sorooshian
*Current Science*, 10 March 2016, 110(5): 766-767.

*Abstract: *Publication phishing has the potential to develop further into
a serious gainful enterprise if effective security measures are not in
place. Be that as it may, there is growing concern over the erosion of
users' trust towards journals, conferences and other channels of
publication stemming from the rise in scam cases involving users’ money,
research articles and personal identifications. Phishing is becoming a
major issue for users and will be making an ever greater and prominent
issue for good scientific societies who need to devise anti-journal
hijacking measures to mitigate the impacts of phishing to their operations.
Researchers and scientific societies need to design adequate technical
security systems to mitigate phishing threat to users. This note highlights
some issues and basic steps to anti-phishing educators and scientific
societies to ensure the viability of anti-phishing initiatives.

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