Journals Delisted from Scopus 2026: The Complete April–May List

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Date 04.06.2026

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Twenty-five journals lost their indexation in April and May 2026. Two months. Twenty-five titles. No email to the authors who had already submitted.

The list of journals delisted from Scopus 2026 is not what most researchers expect it to look like. It includes Elsevier, SAGE, Taylor & Francis and World Scientific alongside small regional publishers — which points to something uncomfortable: a familiar publisher name is not protection.

Scopus indexation is not a permanent status. It is conditional approval, reviewed continuously and withdrawn without personal notification. If your manuscript is under review or already accepted at one of the titles below, read the full list carefully.

Why journals get delisted from Scopus in 2026

Scopus titles are monitored by the Content Selection and Advisory Board, which re-evaluates journals against the same criteria used for acceptance: publication ethics, peer review quality, editorial consistency, citation behaviour and scope stability. When a title stops meeting them, it is removed — and the database publishes the reason in one of two short labels.

Discontinuation.

The journal has stopped receiving new indexed content. Articles already indexed remain in Scopus, but anything published after the discontinuation date is not added — including the paper you submitted three months ago.

Journal change policy.

The journal still exists, but its editorial policy has shifted far enough that Scopus can no longer confirm compliance with its own standards. For a reader this is a nuance. For an author it is the same outcome: a publication that may not count.

Of the journals delisted from Scopus in this update, 13 were discontinued and 12 were removed for a policy change.

Journals we flagged before removal — now officially gone

Delisting is rarely a surprise if you know what to look at. Three of the twenty-five titles in this update had already been flagged as at-risk in the Candidates for Removal from Scopus series before Scopus acted:

ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts — flagged for unstable editorial practices in the fourth edition of the series.

Scientific Culture — identified as a high-probability deindexation case in the third edition.

MSW Management — covered in the same edition for a policy shift inconsistent with Scopus indexation standards.

The signals were public in every case: a sudden jump in output, peer review timelines collapsing from months to days, aggressive recruitment through intermediaries, and self-citation patterns drifting away from the field norm. Nobody needed inside information — just the patience to check.

That is the part we automated. Arxivia’s AI Journal Risk Analyzer scores exactly these signals for any Scopus-indexed journal, so you get the assessment in a few minutes instead of reading four editions of a monitoring series.

Full list: journals delisted from Scopus (April–May 2026)

Discontinuation — 13 journals

1. Alexandria Engineering Journal

ISSN: 1110-0168 E-ISSN: 2090-2670
Publisher: Elsevier
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

2. Arqueologia Iberoamericana

ISSN: 1989-4104
Publisher: Pascual Izquierdo Egea
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

3. Environment and Social Psychology

ISSN: 2424-7979
E-ISSN: 2424-8975
Publisher: Arts and Science Press Pte. Ltd.
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

4. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

ISSN: 1744-5485
E-ISSN: 1744-5493
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

5. International Journal on Technical and Physical Problems of Engineering

ISSN: 2077-3528
Publisher: International Organization on ‘Technical and Physical Problems of Engineering’
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

6. Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

ISSN: 2958-0544
E-ISSN: 2788-7421
Publisher: College of Education, Al-Iraqia University
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

7. Journal of Computational Biophysics and Chemistry

ISSN: 2737-4165
E-ISSN: 2737-4173
Publisher: World Scientific
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

8. Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology

ISSN: 1311-5065
Publisher: Scibulcom Ltd.
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

9. Network: Computation in Neural Systems

ISSN: 0954-898X
E-ISSN: 1361-6536
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

10. Scientific Culture

ISSN: 2408-0071
E-ISSN: 2407-9529
Publisher: University of AEGEAN
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus
Previously flagged in Candidates for Removal from Scopus: Third Edition

11. ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts

ISSN: 2582-7472
Publisher: Granthaalayah Publications and Printers
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus
Previously flagged in Candidates for Removal from Scopus: Fourth Edition

12. Street Art and Urban Creativity

ISSN: 2183-3869
E-ISSN: 2183-9956
Publisher: VisualCOM Scientific Publications
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

13. Yegah Musicology Journal

E-ISSN: 2792-0178
Publisher: Tolga Karaca
Reason: Discontinuation
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

Journal Change Policy — 12 journals

These journals have not ceased to exist, but have changed their policies to the point where Scopus can no longer confirm compliance with its quality standards.

14. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering

E-ISSN: 2214-157X
Publisher: Elsevier
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

15. Chalcogenide Letters

ISSN: 1584-8663
Publisher: S.C. Virtual Company of Physics S.R.L.
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

16. Current Research in Environmental and Applied Mycology

E-ISSN: 2229-2225
Publisher: Institute of Plant and Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

17. Enterprise Development and Microfinance

ISSN: 1755-1978
E-ISSN: 1755-1986
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

18. European Journal of Musculoskeletal Diseases

ISSN: 2038-4106
E-ISSN: 2975-044X
Publisher: Biolife Publisher
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

19. International Journal of Energy Production and Management

ISSN: 2056-3272
E-ISSN: 2056-3280
Publisher: IIETA
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

20. Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering

ISSN: 1472-7978
E-ISSN: 1875-8983
Publisher: SAGE
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

21. Kidneys

ISSN: 2307-1257
E-ISSN: 2307-1265
Publisher: Zaslavsky Publishing House
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

22. MSW Management

ISSN: 1053-7899
Publisher: Forester Communications Inc.
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

Previously flagged in Candidates for Removal from Scopus: Third Edition

23. Mycosphere

ISSN: 2077-7000
E-ISSN: 2077-7019
Publisher: Zhongkai University
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

24. Textile and Leather Review

ISSN: 2623-6257
E-ISSN: 2623-6281
Publisher: idd3
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

25. Waterlines

ISSN: 0262-8104
E-ISSN: 1756-3488
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Reason: Journal Change Policy
Scopus entry: View in Scopus

Don't submit before you check the journal

Every removal in this update happened without prior warning. Run any Scopus-indexed journal through the AI Journal Risk Analyzer and see its risk score in under five minutes — before you send the manuscript, not after.

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What delisting means for your manuscript

The consequences are administrative, not academic — which is exactly why they are so hard to argue with:

A paper submitted or accepted before the removal date may not be credited in degree, tenure or certification requirements.
Publication in a delisted journal can become grounds for rejection at a dissertation defence.
Grants and academic positions tied to Scopus-indexed output are affected the same way.
Your article does not disappear from Scopus if it was indexed before the cut-off date — but articles published after it never enter the database at all.

That last point is where most authors lose money and a year of their time. The journal website stays online, the acceptance letter looks the same, the APC is charged as usual. Only the indexation is gone.

How to check a journal before submission

The reputation a journal had in 2022 tells you nothing about its status today. A workable pre-submission routine looks like this:

Confirm the title is currently active in Scopus — check the source page directly, not a screenshot on the journal website.
Look at output volume over the last two years. A sharp spike is the single most reliable warning sign.
Compare the promised review timeline with the field norm. Two weeks in the humanities is not efficiency.
Check who is recruiting authors on the journal's behalf. Intermediaries selling guaranteed acceptance are a policy problem waiting to be documented.
Check the discontinued titles list every quarter, or let a tool do it.

Arxivia was built for this part of the job. The AI Journal Risk Analyzer scores a journal against the signals that precede delisting, and the AI Journal Matcher finds verified alternatives that actually fit your manuscript — in minutes, not weeks.

Conclusion

Twenty-five journals delisted from Scopus in two months, thirteen of them gone for good. The names on the list include four of the largest publishers in academic publishing, which removes the last comfortable assumption researchers tend to rely on: that a big imprint means a safe submission.

Checking a journal before you submit is not excessive caution. In 2026 it is the minimum standard for anyone who cannot afford to lose a publication — and it takes minutes.

Next update: journals removed from Scopus in June 2026 — 12 more titles from eight countries.