International Faulty Journal Address (IFA)

International Faulty Journal Address (IFA) is a permanent address assigned to an online faulty journal. IFA is a modern fixed international faulty journal address and auto-detects any possible changes in the online faulty journal address and auto-adjusts itself to the faulty journal new address, or only loads faulty journal basic version and its abstracted articles if the faulty journal went offline or removed, extending the faulty journal and articles life time.

IFA solves old common problems of online faulty journals with the following advantages:

Accessing Faulty Journal by IFA:

An IFA is a permanent address to an specific faulty journal (example: IFA.zone/23633624786), the faulty journal directly can be accessed simply by typing the IFA address in an internet browser. As example, find associated faulty journal to this IFA: IFA.zone/23633624786 by internet browser or use following IFA portal:

IFA Syntax Structure:

An IFA consisted of two parts, zone name separated by an slash from 11 digit IFA number: IFA.zone/11 digits. IFA is 22 length including zone name as following example: IFA.zone/23633624786:

According to the International Journals Blacklist standard, faulty journal holder should explicitly display IFA in the described format on online published articles. IFA cannot be any arbitrary number. It is self-verifiable number according to ASI-V3 algorithm. To check the validity of an IFA, an IFA validator portal is used.

IFA VALIDATOR 

  

History of Development of IFA:

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) invented in 1989 in Switzerland. Its drawback is that when URL of a faulty journal website changes or goes offline, the reader cannot access the faulty journal. The publisher should notify readers/authors about the new faulty journal address. International faulty journal Address (IFA) was introduced on 2014 by Advanced Science Index (ASI) in Germany as a permanent address of a faulty journal fixed during its lifetime and after that by extending its lifetime. The IFA keeps a faulty journal basic version and its article abstracts on a separate server. If the faulty journal address is changed IFA servers auto-detect it and auto-adjust itself to the new address. The publisher does not need to notify a new faulty journal address, as the author can still access the faulty journal via the IFA address. In case the faulty journal went offline IFA loads only the basic faulty journal version and its abstract article temporarily allowing the reader to read and the author still submit paper to the faulty journal.