I have published two articles in the IJSER (International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research), a web-based journal. After months, I found that my articles had been removed from publications or deleted, and at the same time, the names of the journals had been modified. The question I would like to raise is to detect and evaluate the impact factor of a journal before selecting it.
Dear Abdiqadir Farah Elmi
As far as I can see this journal “International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research” ISSN 2229-5518
https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2229-5518 is no longer active (with a defunct website http://www.ijser.org).
What is their new name? Do you have a link?
Best regards.
Thank you, Rob Keller. Their new link is https://www.ijser.in/
They have done a bit to modify their name, as I think.
Dear Abdiqadir Farah Elmi
I don’t think so. I think the journal with website https://www.ijser.in named “International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research” is another journal. I see that:
-Their ISSN 2347-3878 is different
-According to https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2347-3878 they exist already since 2013
-Indeed, their archive info confirms this https://www.ijser.in/previousissue.php
-You published in International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 13, Issue 2, February-2022
ISSN 2229-5518 This does not fit with the numbering as mentioned in their archive info where 2022 corresponds to volume 10
So, I think that my suspicion in my previous reply is the most likely scenario: the journal you published in before did not remove your paper(s), but most likely they simply disappeared as a whole (from the internet).
Best regards.
PS. Back to your initial question, if you want to use the impact factor as an indication of quality and trustworthiness then realize that:
-Predatory journals use fake impact factors also known as misleading metrics https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/
-The only real impact factor is assigned to journals that are indexed in one of Clarivate’s indices, the indexing you can check here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home
-Be aware that some journals with a real impact factor are cloned (the term often used for this is hijacked journals), see for the best source of yet identified journals https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-hijacked-journal-checker/
Links to the related research questions are listed bellow:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Journal_Citations_Reports_2025
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Impact-factors
https://www.researchgate.net/post/List_of_journals_impact_factors
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Journal_Citation_Report_and_Impact_Factor_2025
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Where_can_i_get_the_impact_factor_of_various_journals
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Journal_Impact_Factors_and_Citation_Reports_List_2025
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Journals_Impact_Factor_Publication_or_Updated
Read my latest article "In the name of Scopus, one hijacked journal easily tricks authors" published on Retraction Watch:
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/09/03/guest-post-in-the-name-of-scopus-one-hijacked-journal-easily-tricks-authors/
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