“Scientific Publications” has prepared a list of scientific publications excluded from the authoritative Scopus database for March and April 2024. Understanding the Scopus policy on peer-reviewed publications will help scientists to make an informed choice of a scientific journal to publish their research.
Scopus is the most popular platform in the global academic community. The Scopus scientific database covers huge volumes of scientific literature, tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journals, more than 90 million articles.
To maintain its high status in the scientific international community, Scopus is regularly updated. One of the audits conducted by the service's staff is to check scientific journals for compliance with high quality standards. Every month Scopus publishes lists of excluded journals.
The main reasons for excluding scientific journals from the Scopus database:
- unsatisfactory quality of the journal
- irrelevance of published materials
- change in the subject or field of academic publications
- breach of academic integrity
- fraudulent activities
Overview of exclusions for March and April 2024
For the period March-April 2024, Scopus excluded 14 journals. The table below presents the names of these journals and the reasons why their indexing in the database was discontinued.
|
№ |
Scientific Journal |
ISSN / EISSN |
Reasons for exclusion |
|
1 |
Arhiv za Farmaciju |
Print ISSN - 00041963 |
Radar |
|
2 |
Bali Medical Journal |
Print ISSN - 20891180 EISSN - 23022914 |
Radar
|
|
3 |
Educational Administration: Theory and Practice
|
Print ISSN - 13004832 EISSN - 21482403 |
Radar |
|
4 |
Genetical Research
|
Print ISSN - 00166723 EISSN - 14695073 |
Radar |
|
5 |
International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
|
Print ISSN - 1935570X EISSN - 19355718 |
Radar |
|
6 |
ISVS E Journal
|
EISSN - 27382222 |
Publication Concerns |
|
7 |
Journal of Global Business and Trade
|
Print ISSN - 19465130 EISSN - 24704733 |
Radar |
|
8 |
Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice |
Print ISSN - 21583595 EISSN - 00000000 |
Radar |
|
9 |
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs |
EISSN - 18579760 |
Radar |
|
10 |
Journal of Public Health in Africa |
Print ISSN - 20389922 EISSN - 20389930 |
Radar |
|
11 |
Journal of System and Management Sciences |
Print ISSN - 18166075 EISSN - 18180523 |
Radar |
|
12 |
NanoWorld Journal |
EISSN - 23791101 |
Radar |
|
13 |
Review of Economics and Finance
|
Print ISSN - 19237529 EISSN - 19238401 |
Radar |
|
14 |
Revista De Gestao Social e Ambiental |
EISSN - 1981982X |
Radar |
The main reason for excluding a publication from Scopus is the low quality of published content identified by the Radar system, a project of Elsevier.
What is the significance of journal indexing in Scopus for scientists?
- The removal of journals from the Scopus database has a significant impact on the scientific activity of researchers: articles disappear from the profiles of authors, as well as from the profiles of those scientists who cited them, if the journal in which the article was published is no longer peer-reviewed in Scopus.
- Publications that are no longer indexed in Scopus lose their status and reputation in the academic community. We do not recommend publishing in such journals.
- Predatory journals use unfair models of publication activity, offering to place an article in the authoritative Scopus database without having a review in it.
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