Excluding journals from Scopus for May 2024

“Scientific Publications” has prepared an up-to-date list of excluded scientific journals from the largest scientometric database Scopus for May 2024. Monthly Scopus exclusions have a great impact on the publication activity of scientists. Along with journals, the articles published in them may also disappear from the service.

Why does Scopus exclude scientific journals from its database?

Scopus is a global database of research content that contains millions of scientific publications and includes more than 7000 publishers.

Scopus policy is to adhere to the highest quality standards of scientific content. The staff of the scientometric database carefully select the materials that are posted on the platform, as well as check the integrity and level of scientific publishing activities of publishers. Every month those publications that do not meet the standards and requirements of Scopus or have poor editorial activity are excluded from the service.

The main reasons for excluding journals from Scopus:

• poor editorial practices
• scientific material published in journals is of poor quality
• violation of publication ethics ("predatory" editions)
• low scientometric indicators of the journal

Overview of exclusions for May 2024

During the previous month, indexing was terminated for 12 scientific journals. In the table below, we have listed the full list of excluded publications from the scientometric database in May 2024, as well as the reasons for their removal from the database.

The most common reason for the exclusion of journals from Scopus is the low quality of published material detected by the Radar system.

Radar is a monitoring system created by Elsevier to detect scientific journals whose scientometric indicators are predictably deteriorating.

What does the Radar system help to track?

"Radar was created by Elsevier to track the trend of deteriorating performance of scientific journals indexed by Scopus.

The reasons why scientific publications can be disqualified by the Radar system:

• violation of publication ethics
• lack of scientific peer review
• artificially "inflated" number of citations, which does not correspond to reality
• non-standard number of articles per year, which calls into question the quality of the publications themselves
• great geographical diversity (articles are accepted without selection from all over the world)
• change in the direction of publication (abrupt change of the field of science).

In some cases, the subject of the publication does not coincide with the originally declared one, the articles lack scientific content, and the journal review is fictitious or absent at all.

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