Ethical considerations of the Andrra Qielli “sting” by Albana Berisha Qehaja

Authors

  • Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva Independent researcher, P. O. Box 7, Miki-cho post office, Ikenobe 3011-2, Kagawa-ken, 761-0799, Japan.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v9i6.925

Keywords:

Albana Berisha Qehaja, Ethical considerations, criminal consequences

Abstract

This letter examines the ethics of a “sting” paper submitted by Dr. Albana Berisha Qehaja, a faculty member of the Department of Management and Informatics, Faculty of Economy, University of Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo. In that paper, which stung this journal, IJRBS, Dr. Qehaja created a fake paper, with a fake name and fake institutional affiliation, as well as specially crafted email and ORCID accounts to masquerade the identity of the true author of the fake paper, namely Dr. Qehaja. Such behavior is not only an act of extreme scholarly malpractice, it is one of the most unethical behaviors in academic publishing because it violates all of the journal’s and international ethics’ practices for submission of a paper to a journal. Other academics thinking of employing such unethical tactics for any publishing-related objective should reconsider their options and carefully calculate the ethical, legal, and possibly criminal consequences of such actions

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Published

2020-10-31

How to Cite

Teixeira da Silva, J. A. (2020). Ethical considerations of the Andrra Qielli “sting” by Albana Berisha Qehaja. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478), 9(6), 289–290. https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v9i6.925

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 6 (2020): October

Section

Letter to the IJRBS editors

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