Beware of a fraudulent website of BANGLADESH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY !!
Recently, starting from May 21, 2025, a fraudulent website has appeared, falsely claiming to represent the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology. This site is listed as a hijacked journal on The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker – Retraction Watch).
How to Identify It
a) Type the words "Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology" into any search engine (for example, Google.com). The URL should be different from https://banglajol.info/index.php/BJP or https://bdpsjournal.org/index.php/bjp.
b) The names and affiliations of the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members are missing.
c) There are no "Author's guidelines".
d) Does not provide a DOI number for each article, which is important for all articles.
e) Page numbers of each article (from the first page to the last page) do not continue onto the next article.
f) Encourage the authors to publish their papers through rapid publication.
g) They provide the corresponding authors with a fake acceptance letter in PDF format or through multiple emails:
journaleditor.bjp@gmail.com; bdpharmajournal@gmail.com (be careful)
and provide the corresponding author, the bank name: AXIS BANK, Branch: Shalimar, IFSC Code: UTIB0004621, GHAZIABAD, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA for payment, then please don't pay any money to that bank.
h) Receive money from authors as Article Processing Charge (APC). Special rate (higher) for Chinese/Saudi authors. Authors are instructed to make payments to a bank account located in India rather than Bangladesh. Additionally, the payment is requested to be made to a personal account instead of the official "Bangladesh Pharmacological Society" account.
i) They publish papers on chemistry, biology, and public health, which are unrelated to the journal's title. Within the last 150 days, they published 45 papers of various types, including Law, Business, and Computer Science. Of these, 32 were withdrawn by the authors. Some authors failed to withdraw their papers because the hijacked journal's authority demanded additional payment as a withdrawal fee. Recently, they have stopped responding to corresponding authors' emails after receiving payment.
Solution:
Please do not fall into this trap by accepting such emails. Otherwise, you will undoubtedly lose your money, become stressed, and damage your reputation with your institution and colleagues. In the end, you will achieve nothing.
We are constantly monitoring this fraudulent website.
If you use the search engine "Google.com" and enter the title of an article published in that hijacked journal, it will look like this.
Our strong steps:
The cloned version of the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology does not publish the corresponding author's email address. Occasionally, we obtain their email addresses from Google Scholar. However, when we contact them, they often do not respond. Additionally, some institutes and universities do not take any action to withdraw paper published in the cloned version of the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology. Therefore, we have decided to make this information public and will not take any responsibility for these papers.
Please contact us before making any payment:
If you have any questions regarding the FAKE website of the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology, please write to us directly (dgdabd@gmail.com). We assure you that you will get the reply within 4 to 6 hours, even on weekends. Your name and email address will remain confidential and will not be disclosed publicly.
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