Dear Fahim Arif

As you know the “Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing” (https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/about/ ) is one of the journals delisted by Clarivate from the WoS indexes ESCI, SCIE etc. see for the complete list for example here https://retractionwatch.com/2023/03/21/nearly-20-hindawi-journals-delisted-from-leading-index-amid-concerns-of-papermill-activity/ as indicated here this means and I quote “Removing a journal from Web of Science means Clarivate will no longer index its papers, count their citations, or give the title an impact factor, which can have negative effects for authors, as universities rely on such metrics to judge researchers’ work for tenure and promotion decisions. The company also suppresses journals from its yearly Journal Citation Report that publishes impact factors, as we’ve reported in the past.”

There is more bad news since the journal is also discontinued from Scopus https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/17543 if you click on “Scopus content coverage” it is clear that in 2021 the journal started to accept and publish suspiciously more papers (all caused by the introduction of more special issues).

There is however also some ‘good’ news in this matter:

-If you look at the Scopus source list (see enclosed file) and click on the tab “Discontinued title Sept. 2023” then it is clear that the coverage in Scopus stops here Article Retracted: Text Mining Based on the Lexicon-Constrained Netw...

-Not entirely sure how this will work with the indexing with Clarivate (I have no access to the database since I have no license) but it would not surprise me if it is more or less the same as with Scopus

-Even if the indexing in WoS does not count for your paper I think there is reason for some optimism that the journal will get the impact factor back in a reasonably short time (since the ‘problem’ is identified and the publishing partner Wiley is having a good reputation)

Hope this clarifies the matter somewhat.

Best regards.

The impact factor based on Journal Citation Reports is 2.146 / Q3

2.146