Update

Dear colleagues,

Greetings

The attached file contains an updated list of journals discontinued from Scopus (June 2020).

Regards

Dear Mohammed Salah Nasr ,

Thanks for this useful link.

It is sad that for various reasons (again) a number of journals are no longer included in the Scopus database. For example there is quite some discussion going on here on RG about some journals of the publisher “Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication”:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_these_journals_indexed_by_Scopus_IJEAT_IJRTE_and_IJITEE

Your included list of discontinued journals in Scopus comes with the sad news that all the three mentioned journals are discontinued because of what they call “publication concerns”.

Although there are examples of journals that are included again after actions and improvements made by the journal and/or publisher it is a process that takes quite some time (at least a year or more).

You might wonder whether the decision made by Scopus for initial inclusion should be more vigorous in order to avoid a possible discontinuation since people rely on indexation in database/services like Scopus.

Again thanks for your discussion entry.

Best regards.

Thank you for this useful update Dr. Mohammed

Thank you Dr Mohammed for providing us with updates constantly

Thanks

Thank you very much, Dr. Rob Keller , for adding your valuable opinion. It is not yet clear enough how the journals are removed from the Scopus classification. In previous years, Scopus released files for discontinued journals almost every two months, and this causes confusion for researchers who presented their papers to these journals, as the process of publishing the research may take several months. Therefore, the researcher may have submitted his paper to the journal concerned and then be surprised by the discontinue of this journal and thus causes embarrassment for the researcher and lost his efforts.

Dear, Dr. Ali Shubbar , Dr. Fatimah H. Naser , Dr. Khalaf Ibrahem Mohammad thank you very much for adding your contributions.

Best regards

Dr. Salah Nasr,

I would like to thank you for providing the list of discontinued journal by Scopus per February 2020.

But, may I know, where did you get the information from?

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Sutopo

Thank you very much, Dr. Sutopo Hadi , for adding a reply. You can obtain this information by visiting the following link:

https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/content

At the end of the page, you will find three files you can download and one of these files is "Discontinued sources from Scopus".

Best regards

Thank you Dr. Salah Nasr. It is really helpful.

All the best with you and your work in the "disaster era" of COVID-19.

Many thanks, Dr. Sutopo Hadi. I hope you all the best.

Thank you Dr.Mohammed. It is very useful.

You are welcome, Dr. Zainab Muhammad Ridha Abdul Rasool Kindeel. Thank you for adding your reply.

Useful information Dr Mohammed, Thank you

You are welcome, Dr. Anmar Dulaimi. Thank you for adding your contribution.

Great work .

Nobody knows the criteria of scopus to remove the journals from its database.

Thank you so much Dr. Mohammed Salah Nasr.

Its really useful, and saved my time and work.

You are welcome, Dr. Prabhat Bisht and Parvathy Dharamarajan. Thank you for adding your reply.

Dear Dr. Mohammed Salah Nasr.

How often Scopus approved journal list changes, Is it monthly, quarterly or yearly

Regards

Dr.Rosewine Joy

Best is to publish papers in highly reputed journals like taylor and francis, springer , elsevier, IGI etc .

Chances are less that there scopus index journals removed from scopus.

Thank you

Dear Dr. Rosewine Joy, thank you very much for adding your reply. In the past, Scopus released files for discontinued journals almost every two months, but it seems that since last year, the time of releasing has become irregular. For example, the last issue for the year 2019 was in July, and since that time, no file has been issued for discontinued journals until February of this year. So, it is not known when to release the following discontinued list. Regards

Dear Dr. Prabhat Bisht, thank you very much for adding your reply. I agree with you that publishing in journals affiliated with such publishers is better for the researcher as the chances of its discontinuing from Scopus are scarce. However, sometimes you have a paper that is not up to such journals, so you have to publish it in Scopus indexed journals with a lesser reputation than mentioned above.

Regards

Dear Dr.Mohammed Salah Nasr.

Thanks for the update, extreamely helpful

You are welcome, Dr. Rosewine Joy. Many thanks.

Regards

thank you very much

You are welcome, Dr. Firas Kati. Thank you for adding your reply.

When of Scopus up date for List of Journal indexed in Scopus?

What are monthly, or quarterly or yearly?

Thank you very much, Dr. Waspodo Tjipto Subroto for adding your contribution. I will repost the answer I answered to Dr. Rosewine:

In the past, Scopus released files for discontinued journals almost every two months, but it seems that since last year, the time of releasing has become irregular. For example, the last issue for the year 2019 was in July, and since that time, no file has been issued for discontinued journals until February of this year. So, it is not known when to release the following discontinued list.

Moreover, Scopus updates its website for indexed and discontinued journals every year (usually at the end of May). However, this year Scopus hasn't updated a website yet, possibly due to the Corona pandemic. It may update at the end of June.

Best regards

If you get inputs on the updation for this year, please post here as well

Thank you, Dr. Rosewine. I will post it here once it is released.

Regards

Update

Dear colleagues,

Greetings

The attached file contains an updated list of journals discontinued from Scopus (June 2020).

Regards

Dear Sir ,

Thank you for keeping us posted.

Best Regards

You are welcome, Dr. Rosewine Joy. Many thanks for your reply.

Best Regards

Thank you dr Mohammed for the update.

I have a question, what will happen if the journal is discontinued?

Dear Sir ,

Thank you for keeping us upto date on Scopus journals.

Thank you very much, Dr. Roberto. As I know, most of the international rankings of universities depend in their data on the numbers of papers (and maybe citations) published in Scopus-indexed journals. Therefore, publishing in discontinued journals is a waste of the researcher's effort and consequently, his university does not benefit from that research.

You are welcome, Dr. Sasanko Sekhar Gantayat. Thank you very much for your reply.

Thank you very much Dr. Mohammed Salah Nasr

You are welcome, Dr. Heba Nagy. Thank you very much for adding your reply.

Is it possible to know till which issue a journal is included ? for example IJITEE ISSN 2278-3075 (online) is discontinued. Till which paper it was there in Scopus, can we know? Thanks in advance

Thank you very much, Dr. Srinivasan R, for adding your reply. Volume 9, Issue 1, pages 5452-5455 (2019) was the last paper of IJITEE (ISSN 2278-3075) that covered by Scopus.

Regards

How to find out sir?

Please, see the attached file and search about the journal then you can find beside the journal-title all those information.

Best Regards.

Yes Thanks a lot sir

You are welcome, Dr. Srinivasan R. Many Thanks.

Good morning Doctor Mohammed. Anyway I have a question not related to Scopus.

Do you have any idea on how to put date on my google scholar article?

Some of my papers uploaded in Researchgate don't have date.

Take me for example.

Suson, R. L. 21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTION: ACCELERATING STUDENTS OUTCOME IN MATHEMATICS. (APA)

Suson, Roberto L. "21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTION: ACCELERATING STUDENTS OUTCOME IN MATHEMATICS." (MLE)

I hope you can help me with this. Thanks.

Dear, Dr. Roberto Suson, thank you very much for your contribution. To add a date (or any details) to your paper in Google Scholar:

Go to your profile then click on the concerned paper.

Click on the pen which presents on the top right of the window.

Now you can change any details related to your paper like volume, issue, date...

After completing all changes, click on the checkmark appears in the top right of the window.

I hope the attached pictures are useful.

Best Regards

Dear Dr Mohammed

If the concerned paper doesn't reflect on google scholar then what to do. Is there any steps to be taken if we should avoid it in the future

Please advice

Best Regards

Thank you for your valuable feedback, Dr. Mohammed I really appreciate it.

But still, it won't work Dr..

I don't know what to do about this.

Please see attached screenshot.

Thank you very much, Dr. Rosewine. There are some journals whose papers do not appear quickly in Google Scholar (the average time between publication online and its appearance in Google Scholar is within a week). The most likely reason for the delay is due to the system followed by the journal itself. So in this case, I sometimes add my paper to the profile myself. Here you have two options: either wait for it to appear in your profile, or add it yourself.

To add your published paper to your profile in Google Scholar:

Click on (+) in your profile then chose "Add articles" to search and add the concerned paper or chose "Add articles manually" to write the paper details (Title, authors, volume issue....etc) manually.

Best Regards

Thank you very much, dear Dr. Roberto Suson. it takes several days (or even weeks) for changes to be updated.

Best Regards

Thank you so much Dr. Mohammed . This forum is becoming extremely useful and insightful

You are welcome, Dr. Rosewine. Thank you for your contribution.

Salam Dr Mohammed,

Can you help me explain what it means by DISCONTINUED due to Metric & Radar?

Salam, Dr. Kamaruzaman Jusoff,

Thank you very much, Kamaruzaman Jusoff. Radar is a tool by which Scopus can "Identify and filter out outlier journals" while Metric is used to identify poor performing journals (self-citations....etc.). However, really, I don't know exactly what they mean or how they work.

I hope that the attached file is useful.

Best Regards

Got it!

Thank you so much Dr.Mohammed Salah Nasr for your information and insight knowledge.

Dear Dr Nasr

I think the new discontinued list is published for September, do you have visibility on the same , In case you have the list, Kindly share

Best

Dr.Rosewine Joy

Anyone here knows about JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REVIEWS (JCR)? Why still listed in SCOPUS DATABASE despite a SUSPICIOUS/FAKE journal?

Dear Kamaruzaman Jusoff ,

Latest news: new list of discontinued titles in Scopus (see attachment).

The journal "journal of critical reviews" is discontinued. See for more details the following question:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_Journal_of_Critical_Reviews_Scopus_Index

Best regards.

TQVM Rob

Thank you Dr. Nasr & Keller for the discontinued list. The reasons mentioned as Radar is not clear to me. Can anyone clarify it?

Dear Mashroofa,

Radar means to me is where CSAB Elsevier noticed a special "behaviour or an outlier happening in a particular journal, eg. too many articles in a particular issue

Thank you

Thank you

Salam Dr Mohammed,

Could you tell me how many "Discontinued sources from Scopus.xlsx" file does Scopus published in the year and in which months.

Thank you

Dear dr. Mohammed,

Would you confirm new added journal like ojafr

Dear Mohammed Salah Nasr

Can you share the link from which you got information for scopus delisted journals and if this delisting comes every month?

Thanks in Advance

Dear Muhammad Haseeb and Nael Ahmed Al-Shareefi ,

The list of journals currently indexed in Scopus can be found here:

https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri?zone=TopNavBar&origin=searchbasic

click on “Download Scopus Source List”

The list of discontinued titles can be found here:

https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/content

scroll down and click on “Discontinued sources from Scopus”.

This year (2020) there was a list of discontinued titles in Feb., June, and Sept. If I recall correctly there is a certain frequency for both the list of sources and discontinued titles, but it varies every years.

Best regards.

Thank you Rob Keller

Thank you very much Rob Keller

Dear researchers

Thank you very much for your valuable contribution and I apologize for the delay in responding due to busy work

Thank you, Dr. Rob Keller, for your helpful answers

Warm greetings

Hello all , if the article is already published in journal indexed scopus , and this one is discontinued mean the article is no more indexed Scopus

Journals list that discontinued from Scopus-October 2020

Hello all, I have submitted an article last month (September 2020) in an international journal, but, I see that this journal is discontinued from Scopus in October 2020. I need to know if my article will be considered as indexed in Scopus?

Dear Dr. Mbida Mohamed, thank you very much for adding your contribution. When a journal is discontinued from the SCOPUS, the last volume (and issue) as well as page numbers, of the last one included in the category are mentioned. So, if your paper is published in the previous concerning issues, it will appear in SCOPUS.

Best regards

Dear, Dr. Nael Ahmed Al-Shareefi. Thank you so much for sharing the last updated list of the discontinued journals from Scopus.

Best regards

Dear Dr. Naoufal Machhour. Thank you so much for your reply. In this case, your article will not be considered as indexed in Scopus.

Best regards.

Dear Mohammed Salah Nasr. Thank you for your reply. I just want to mention that may paper is already published in September and the journal is discontinued in October.

Dear Dr. Naoufal Machhour. Thank you so much for your contribution. In this case, you should see the last volume and issue (and pages numbers) that were indexed in Scopus and compare it with the volume and issue of your paper, whether it was before or after.

Best regards.

Dear Dr. Mohammed Salah Nasr. Thank you very much for your help.

Thank you very much Mahammed Salah Nasr for your explanation regarding Radar journals.

Best regards

is there any list of journals under consideration of discontinuation? if yes, please attach

December 2020

The Scopus has a new list of journal that has been discontinued form Dec 2020.

https://www.whatisresearch.com/scopus-discontinued-list-2020-december/

Dear respected colleagues, Drs. Naoufal Machhour, Mohamed Majeed Mashroofa, Zubair Nawaz, Nael Ahmed Al-Shareefi, and S Suman Alex,

thank you very much for your contributions.

Best regards.

Hello, I would like to know is the Journal (Paideuma) and Journal (Aegaeum) continuing in Scopas, or it was out of it in 2020? And thank you very much for your useful efforts.

Hello Dr. Maher Hatem.

For Paideuma: ISSN: 0090-5674, it was discontinoued from Scopus in 2016.

For Aegaeum: ISSN: 0776-3808, it is still indexed in Scopus. However, there are notes that I have recorded about this journal that require scrutiny and caution before submitting the manuscript to it.

1. It should be noted that there is no direct link on the Scopus website to access the journal's website, and likewise the case in the Scimagojr (SJR) website, so there is a possibility that the journal's website (http://aegaeum.com) may be fake.

2. Annually, this journal publishes a few papers (less than 100 papers), but in the year 2020, the number of papers exceeded 1000 while only 25 of them are indexed in Scopus, which is surprising.

In my opinion, you should look for another journal that is more reliable to publish your research in.

Thank you very much

Best regards

Thank you, very useful information.

Dear Maher Hatem ,

As well-spotted by Mohammed Salah Nasr the journal “Aegaeum” is the victim of hijacking (https://beallslist.net/hijacked-journals/ ).

The same appears to be the case for “Paideuma” which has also been the victim of the existence of a hijacked (fake) version of the journal, presumably the reason why it has been discontinued in Scopus.

Best regards.

Many thanks, Dr. Danung Nur Adli.

Thank you very much, Dr. Rob Keller for the valuable information. I agree with you.

Best regards.

Thanks for sharing.

Thank U 4 these info

SCOPUS updates its list of journals every three months. So they discontinue journals in each evaluation. In the December discontinued list, there are six more journals added. Please go to https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/content

Scroll down and find the latest list (discontinued sources from SCOPUS) at the bottom

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings of the day!

Kindly share the list of discontinued journal.

Regards,

Dr. Amanullah

Dear Dr. Abdul Rehman, Dr. Wathba Idrees Ali, Dr. Amanullah Channa, and Dr. Mohamed Majeed Mashroofa, many thanks for your contributions.

Dear Dr. Amanullah Channa, The updated list (December 2020) of Scopus discontinued journals can be found in the attached file.

Best regards

really helpful.