Survey the original and Hijacked Journal Websites with the Webometrics Approach

misusing the reputation of the original journal, Internet fraudsters launche websites that are similar to the website of reputable journals to attract scholars. the purpose of this research to is study the webometrics of the original and hijacked journals websites for identifying the main websites of journals. This descriptive study was performed. In this study, the list of Hijacked Journals was first extracted from the Ministry of Science web site, The 10 main websites of the journals, along with its Hijacked website, were obtained. then the relevant data were collected using the Google search engine and MOZ. The webometrics score of inlinks and rich files in the original journal websites has been higher than hijacked websites. Except for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Journal and JKULL journal the size and google scholar indicators were higher in hijacked websites respectively. in webometrics Ranking, the original journal websites were much higher than their hijacked websites. The Webometrics Ranking of the original journal websites were higher than Hijacked web sites. therefore webometrics Approach can be used as detector for the orginal and hijacked websites of scientific journals.