Hijacked journals are publication outlets that are created by fraudulent entities for financial gain. They deceitfully use the names of genuine journals to dupe researchers. A hijacked journal publishes papers in return for article publication charges similar to those of gold open access journals, but they are not authentic. By using the same title of a genuine journal, a hijacked journal may confuse authors who send their manuscripts to it. A hijacked journal may also confuse authors that cite articles published in it, wrongly assuming that they appeared in an authentic journal (a phenomenon herein called citation infiltration). Adopting a case study methodology, the main aim of this paper is to investigate the extent of citations received by a hijacked marketing journal from marketing journals indexed in Clarivate Analytics' Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Results indicate that the hijacked journal received 25 citations from 13 SSCI-indexed marketing journals. The list of the infiltrated journals includes some of marketing's most “prestigious” journals. Ironically, the SSCI-indexed marketing journal that cited the hijacked journal the most (with nine citations) is none other than the genuine journal whose identity has been theft.

被劫持的期刊是由欺诈实体为获得经济利益而创建的出版物。他们欺骗地使用正版期刊的名称来欺骗研究人员。被劫持的期刊发表论文以换取与金开放获取期刊相似的文章发表费，但它们不是真实的。通过使用正版期刊的相同标题，被劫持的期刊可能会使发送稿件的作者感到困惑。被劫持的期刊还可能会使引用该期刊发表的文章的作者感到困惑，错误地认为它们出现在真实的期刊中（此现象称为引文渗入）。采用案例研究方法，本文的主要目的是调查被劫持的营销期刊从Clarivate Analytics'索引的营销期刊中获得的引用程度 社会科学引文索引（SSCI）。结果表明，被劫持的期刊收到了13篇SSCI索引营销期刊的25篇引文。渗透期刊包括一些市场上最“有声望”的期刊。具有讽刺意味的是，引用被劫持的期刊最多（被引用9次）的SSCI索引营销期刊只不过是身份被盗的正版期刊。