As part of our ongoing mission to protect and foster research integrity, the following journals from the publisher Hindawi have been removed from our Journalytics Academic and Journalytics Medicine databases for failure to meet our quality criteria, pending re-evaluation of their policies and practices:
- Advances In Materials Science And Engineering (ISSN: 1687-8434)
- Biomed Research International (ISSN: 2314-6133)
- Computational And Mathematical Methods In Medicine (ISSN: 1748-670X)
- Computational Intelligence And Neuroscience (ISSN: 1687-5265)
- Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging (ISSN: 1555-4309)
- Disease Markers (ISSN: 0278-0240)
- Education Research International (ISSN: 2090-4002)
- Evidence-Based Complementary And Alternative Medicine (ISSN: 1741-427X)
- Journal Of Environmental And Public Health (ISSN: 1687-9805)
- Journal Of Healthcare Engineering (ISSN: 2040-2295)
- Journal Of Nanomaterials (ISSN: 1687-4110)
- Journal Of Oncology (ISSN: 1687-8450)
- Journal of Sensors (ISSN: 1687-725X)
- Mathematical Problems In Engineering (ISSN: 1024-123X)
- Mobile Information Systems (ISSN: 1574-017X)
- Oxidative Medicine And Cellular Longevity (ISSN: 1942-0900)
- Scanning (ISSN: 0161-0457)
- Scientific Programming (ISSN: 1058-9244)
- Security and Communication Networks (ISSN: 1939-0114)
- Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (ISSN: 1530-8669)
Wiley’s statement confirming ‘compromised articles’ in Hindawi special issues, coupled with strong evidence that at least some of the retracted content was generated by paper mills, points to the absence of a functional peer review system in place at the above listed journals. The backbone of not just any legitimate, trustworthy journal, but of all of academic and medical publishing, is a robust and closely managed peer review process.
We covered the wave of retraction notices in recent years from scientific and medical publications on our Journalytics Medicine blog in November. Retractions are, to a certain extent, ‘part of the process’ for journals, but retractions at this level by one publisher shows a breakdown in that process. It is our hope that the removal of these journals from our databases will motivate all scholarly and medical publishers to review their current publication processes and make the necessary improvements or changes to any substandard elements.
