Hindawi (publisher)

Hindawi
Parent company	Wiley
Status	Inactive
Founded	1997
Founder	Ahmed Hindawi
Country of origin	Egypt
Headquarters location	London
Distribution	Worldwide
Publication types	Scientific journals
No. of employees	42 (in 2019)
Official website	www.hindawi.com

Hindawi was a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals active in scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature. It was founded in 1997 in Cairo, Egypt, and purchased in 2021 for $298 million by John Wiley & Sons, a large US-based publishing company.^[3]

By 2022, Hindawi was publishing over 250 journals, including 64 journals indexed within the Science Citation Index Expanded, and 1 journal indexed within the Social Sciences Citation Index,^[4] with a total of 64 journals ranked with an impact factor. Since 2007, all of Hindawi's journals have been open access and published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY).^[5]

The quality of peer review at a number of Hindawi journals has been the subject of criticism. In 2010, Hindawi was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall, but was removed following a successful appeal.^[6] In 2023, Wiley announced after over 7000 article retractions in Hindawi journals related to the publication of articles originating from paper mills that it will cease using the Hindawi brand and will integrate Hindawi’s 200 remaining journals into its main portfolio.^[7]^[8] The Wiley CEO who initiated the Hindawi acquisition stepped down in the wake of those retractions.^[9]

^ ^a ^b "A 2018 update on Hindawi's Corporate Structure". about.hindawi.com. 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
^ "Meet the Team". about.hindawi.com. 2018-08-05. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
^ Cite error: The named reference Wiley was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ company, Web of Science Group, a Clarivate. "Web of Science Master Journal List". Web of Science Group, a Clarivate company. Retrieved 2022-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Hindawi Publishing Corporation - Open Access Memberships". 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
^ Butler, Declan (2013-03-01). "Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing". Nature. 495 (7442): 433–435. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..433B. doi:10.1038/495433a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 23538810.
^ "Paper mills are bribing editors at scholarly journals, Science investigation finds". Science. 2024-01-18. doi:10.1126/science.zrjehzt.
^ "Wiley to stop using "Hindawi" name amid $18 million revenue decline". Retraction Watch. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
^ "Up to one in seven submissions to hundreds of Wiley journals flagged by new paper mill tool". Retraction Watch. March 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2024.

[Update2018-1] "A 2018 update on Hindawi's Corporate Structure". about.hindawi.com. 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2019-04-02.

[2] "Meet the Team". about.hindawi.com. 2018-08-05. Retrieved 2019-04-02.

[Wiley-3] Cite error: The named reference Wiley was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] y, Web of Science Group, a Clarivate. "Web of Science Master Journal List". Web of Science Group, a Clarivate company. Retrieved 2022-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[5] "Hindawi Publishing Corporation - Open Access Memberships". 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-01.

[6] Butler, Declan (2013-03-01). "Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing". Nature. 495 (7442): 433–435. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..433B. doi:10.1038/495433a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 23538810.

[:0-7] "Paper mills are bribing editors at scholarly journals, Science investigation finds". Science. 2024-01-18. doi:10.1126/science.zrjehzt.

[RW2023-8] "Wiley to stop using "Hindawi" name amid $18 million revenue decline". Retraction Watch. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-08.

[9] "Up to one in seven submissions to hundreds of Wiley journals flagged by new paper mill tool". Retraction Watch. March 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2024.

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