#hijackedjournals
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #hijackedjournals from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #hijackedjournals
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-01 05:44 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-01 05:44 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #hijackedjournals.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-01 05:44 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~13271 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (2) · Ukrainian (1) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
Top of the latest posts
This presentation dives into fraudulent practices in academic #publishing. Early-career researchers, learn to spot predatory, hijacked, and “grey zone” journals that threaten careers and credibility. We'll cover red flags like weak #peerrev
Final presentation for the PUBMET conference Summer School today: Ukrainian editors on challenges to academic publishing during war, starting with Yuliia Hartman of Access to Justice in Eastern Europe and the @EASE Ukrainian Regional Chapte
Last year, Scopus blitzed all links to journal websites from their profiles in a clumsy reaction to their data being infiltrated by journal hijackers, i.e., fraudsters who pose as a real journal. Did it work? No. They're still indexing hija
#hijackedjournals across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #hijackedjournals straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/hijackedjournals