PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has been hijacked
Back in our annus mirabilis of 2013, one of the Wedel-and-Taylor papers was Neural spine bifurcation in sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation: ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications (Wedel and Taylor 2013). We this published in PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, which we chose because it was a small, open-access journal in our field that was obviously mission-driven and did not charge an APC.
We were pretty happy with our experience at PalArch, and it remained on our will-probably-go-back-this-journal list.
Until a couple of weeks ago, when Skye McDavid pointed out on the Dinosaur Mailing List that the journal has been hijacked. Journal hijacking is a pretty new phenomenon, and needless to say a contemptible one. The idea seems to be to obtain access to a journal’s website — for example, by snaffling the domain when the true owners let the DNS registration expire — then use it to publish a bunch of low-quality or straight-up fake papers, lending them the appearance of legitimacy because they’re associated with a recognised journal.
In the case of PalArch’s JVP, this meant that the Current Issue page was stuffed with a bunch of new papers that have nothing to do with vertebrate palaeontology, and the Editorial Board page was replaced with “coming soon” text that had no contact details. Our own paper remained up on the site, presumably to help lend that site credibility (it’s been cited 48 times) but who knows how long it will remain there? (This kind of thing is why we always keep our own copies of our papers on our websites, too.)
But in the last few days, that Current Issue page has gone away — not a 404, just a blank page — and in fact even the home page is similarly blank.
I don’t know what can be done about this. I can’t contact the site’s true owners, because nothing on the site says who they are. I’m posting this mostly in the hope that one of the PalArch people stumbles across it and can do something to rescue what was a nice little journal.
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