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Withdrawn papers |
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Papers withdrawn from a journal due to lack of proficiency of the Editors. |
Manuscript number(s) (Paper type) |
Journal (Publisher) |
Responsible Editor(s) |
Date submitted |
Withdrawal date |
mathematics-3653834 |
Mathematics (MDPI) |
Francisco Chiclana (EiC) |
May 5, 2025 |
July 21, 2025 |
electronics-744133/electronics-888571 (Invited paper) |
Electronics (MDPI) |
Han-Jeong Hwang (GE), Chang-Hee Han (GE) |
February 27, 2020 |
August 11, 2020 |
CNSNS-D-18-01214 (Regular paper) |
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Elsevier) |
Yueheng Lan (E), J.J. Masdemont (AE) |
August 10, 2018 |
February 11, 2019 |
ACOM-D-17-00298 (Regular paper) |
Advances in Computational Mathematics (Springer) |
Alex Barnett (E), Karsten Urban (ME) |
October 28, 2017 |
June 27, 2018 |
IJWMC-194566 (Regular paper) |
Int. J. of Wireless and Mobile Computing |
Zhihua Cui |
September 26, 2017 |
November 11, 2017 |
AMC-D-16-03447 (Regular paper) |
Applied Mathematics and Computation (Elsevier) |
Ernö Robert Csetnek (AE), Theodore E. Simos (EiC) |
August 9, 2016 |
April 5, 2017 |
CYB-E-2015-10-1351 (Regular paper) |
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics |
Jun Wang |
October 5, 2015 |
April 2, 2016 |
TNNLS-2015-B-5543 + TNNLS-2016-B-6203 (Brief paper) |
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems |
Derong Liu, Haibo He |
October 3, 2015 |
March 3, 2016 |
NACO-15-0004 (Regular paper) |
Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization (AIMS) |
Song Wang, Kok Lay Teo |
February 6, 2015 |
May 15, 2015 |
JOTA-D-13-00759 (Regular paper) |
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Springer) |
Franco Giannessi |
November 30, 2013 |
March 10, 2014 |
NEUNET-D-13-00164 (Letter) |
Neural Networks (Elsevier) |
DeLiang Wang |
May 28, 2013 |
November 2, 2013 |
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Black list |
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Journals blacklisted due to ethical concerns and misconduct from the Editors. No papers will be submitted to these journals and any request of collaboration will be ignored. |
Reason for blacklisting |
Journal (Publisher) |
Responsible Editor(s) |
Date of blacklisting |
Date of delisting |
An anonymous Associate Editor discharged the paper, after 239 days from submission, with the following motivation “We do not have a full referee report, but quick opinions gathered suggest that it would be difficult to convince the full editorial board to accept the article.” |
Nonlinearity (IOP Publishing) |
Tasso Kaper, Konstantin Khanin |
September 2025 |
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An anonymous Associate Editor rejected the paper, without engaging reviewers, with the following motivation “We do not have a full referee report, but quick opinions gathered suggest that it would be difficult to convince the full editorial board to accept the article.” |
Mathematics in Engineering (AIMS Press) |
Antonio De Simone, Enrico Valdinoci |
September 2025 |
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The Editor rejected the paper without engaging reviewers and without providing any reason for rejection. Allegedly, this is a policy to tamper their metrics. |
Applied Mathematics and Computation (AMC - Elsevier) |
Theodore Simos |
July 2025 |
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The publisher (Elsevier) suggested to transfer a paper from AMC to MATCOM, then the Editor of MATCOM rejected the paper without engaging reviewers because this journal does not accept papers transferred from "similar journals". Allegedly, this is a policy to tamper their metrics. |
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM - Elsevier) |
Rosa Maria Spitaleri |
July 2025 |
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