Excluding journals from Scopus for January 2025

Scientific Publications has traditionally presented an up-to-date list of scientific journals excluded from the largest scientometric database Scopus in January 2025. We recommend reading the updated list to find out which journals have lost indexing in Scopus.

Why are journals excluded from the Scopus database?

Scopus – is an international database of scientific content including millions of publications and more than 7000 publishers.  

The platform adheres to high quality standards, carefully monitoring both the content and the scientific reputation of publishers. All materials are rigorously reviewed for compliance, and journals are rigorously reviewed for editorial quality and publication integrity.  

Every month, scientific journals that no longer meet the established quality standards or violate the platform's rules are excluded from the database.

The main reasons for excluding journals from Scopus:

• Poor editorial work: failure to adhere to peer review and editing standards.
• Low level of published articles: placement of low quality research.
• Violation of scientific ethics: "predatory" journals engaged in unfair publication activities.
• Low scientometric indicators: low level of citation of journals.

Overview of excluded journals for January 2025

In January 2025, indexing was discontinued for 11 scientific journals. The table below presents the full list of publications excluded from Scopus with the reasons for their removal.

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

Radar is a monitoring system developed by Elsevier that monitors scientific journals and identifies publications with deteriorating scientific metrics and unfair editorial policies.

How does the Radar monitoring system work?

Radar was developed by Elsevier to monitor trends in the deteriorating performance of scientific journals indexed in Scopus.

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

• violation of publication ethics;
• lack of scientific peer review;
• artificially high number of citations;
• non-standardized number of articles per year, which raises doubts about the quality of publications;
• too great thematic diversity (publications on a wide range of disciplines are accepted);
• abrupt change in the scientific orientation of the journal.

In some cases, the system reveals inconsistency with the declared subject of the publication or lack of scientific content in the articles.

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