Journals excluded from Scopus for August 2024
August 2024 brought new journal exclusions from Scopus, causing concern among the scientific community. Over the past month, several journals have been removed from the list due to failure to meet quality criteria and suspicion of unfair practices. Below is a list of journals that were excluded in August 2024.
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems (Scopus link - here).
This journal, which focused on scalable information systems, was removed from the Scopus database due to its poor publication practices and poor peer review quality that did not meet the database's standards. - International Journal of Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance (Scopus link - here).
Pharmaceutical science has always demanded the highest level of quality and accuracy in publications. However, the journal was found to be in violation of publication ethics requirements, which led to its exclusion from Scopus. - Scientific Herald of Uzhhorod University. Series Physics (Scopus link - here).
A journal once an important platform for the physical sciences has lost its place in Scopus over problems with its peer-review system and allegations of breaches of transparency standards. - International journal of religion (Scopus link - here) — this journal was not listed, but was excluded from the Scopus database and all articles for 2024 were de-indexed. In the screenshot below you can see that the journal was excluded.
The journal may be included in the list next month, or it may not be included at all, since this journal has violated all the existing rules of virtue for scientific publications indexed in Scopus. We have warned you about this journal twice. In our section Journals that will soon lose indexing in Scopus.
Reasons for excluding all journals: Radar system.
The Radar system reacts to the following changes:
- A sharp increase in the number of published articles;
- The geographical diversity of the authors is reduced;
- Changes in the subject matter of publications compared to the goals and scope of the journal;
- A very active surge in citations or, on the contrary, a serious decline.
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