August 2024 brought new journal exclusions from Scopus, causing concern among the scientific community. Over the past month, several journals were removed from the list due to failure to meet quality criteria and suspicions of unfair practices. Below is a list of the journals excluded in August 2024.
📌 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems (Scopus link - Here).
This journal, which specialized in scalable information systems, was removed from the Scopus database due to unscrupulous publishing 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 levels of quality and accuracy in publications. However, an audit found this journal to be in violation of publication ethics requirements, leading 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 due to problems with its peer-review system and suspicions of violations 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 from 2024 were de-indexed. The screenshot below shows the journal's exclusion.
The journal may be included next month, or it may not be included at all, as it has violated all existing rules of good practice for Scopus-indexed scholarly journals. We've warned you about this journal twice. In our column Journals that will soon lose their Scopus indexing.
Reasons for excluding all journals: Radar system.
The Radar system reacts to the following changes:
📍 A sharp increase in the number of published articles;
📍 A snapshot of the authors’ geographic diversity;
📍 Changes in the subject matter of the publications relative to the journal’s objectives and scope;
📍 A very sharp spike in citations or, conversely, a significant decline.
Follow our column Journals that will soon lose their Scopus indexingto stay informed about questionable publications that are on the verge of being excluded from this database.
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