Hindawi grows to more than 5,000 submissions in March
Paul Peters
April 2, 2012
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is pleased to announce that it has received
over 5,400 submissions in March across its portfolio of 300+ open access
journals, which represents an increase of 80% from March 2011.
"I am incredibly pleased with the growth that we have seen in submissions
to our open access journals over the past year," said Paul Peters,
Hindawi's Head of Business Development. "In addition to the strong growth
of our more well-established journals, several of which are expected to
receive upwards of 1,000 submissions this year, we are happy to see that
many of the newer journals that we launched over the past few years have
already built incredible momentum and are on track to becoming leading
journals within their respective fields."
In explaining the reasons for the company's growth, Hindawi's Editorial
Manager, Mohamed Hamdy, emphasized the importance of the increasing
coverage of Hindawi's journals by the major Abstracting and Indexing
services. "As the coverage of our journals within PubMed, the Web of
Science, Scopus, and a number of subject specific databases has grown over
the past year, we have seen a very positive reaction from our authorship.
We now have more than 30 journals indexed in the Web of Science, and close
to 150 journals indexed in PubMed, and as the indexing of our journals
continues to expand I expect that we will see very strong growth in the
submissions to these journals."
In addition to the journals that are hosted on the company's main website
(http://www.hindawi.com/), Hindawi has been developing a number of
independent journal platforms over the past two years, each with a specific
editorial focus. The first of these platforms was the ISRN series
(http://www.isrn.com/), which launched in mid-2010 with the aim of
providing a fast-track review process for all submitted manuscripts, and
by March of 2012 the ISRN series accounted for 20% of Hindawi's total
submissions. More recently Hindawi has launched two new platforms including
Datasets International (http://www.datasets.com/), which focuses on the
publication of Dataset Papers as well as the underlying datasets that they
describe, and Conference Papers in Science (http://www.cpis.com/), which
publishes peer-reviewed manuscripts that arise from conference
presentations and workshops. While it is still too early to evaluate the
success of these new initiatives, Hindawi is hopeful that these platforms
will be able to build significant momentum over the coming year.
For more information please contact:
Paul Peters
Head of Business Development
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Email: paul....@hindawi.com
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is an academic publisher of more than 300
peer reviewed, open access journals covering a wide range of subjects in
science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences. The company web
site is located at http://www.hindawi.com/.