Sage has retracted 467 articles from the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, a title it took on when it acquired IOS Press last November for an undisclosed sum. The journal’s editor in chief, Reza Langari of Texas A&M University in College Station, resigned on June 16 "due to differences of opinion on how to proceed the investigation". 

Langari’s said, submissions had grown significantly in recent years because of growth in the AI field, which the journal covers, reaching 10,000 last year. The journal implemented a prescreening process and rejected over 80% of submissions, he said, “some of which were clearly manufactured by paper mills or else using AI tools.”

Sage paused publication of new articles in the journal when it began investigating, and will continue the pause while moving the management of the journal in-house, according to the spokesperson. The journal’s profile page on Clarivate’s website states indexing for the title in Web of Science is “on hold” while the company re-evaluates its content “according to our selection criteria.”

Source: https://retractionwatch.com/2024/08/23/exclusive-publisher-retracts-more-than-450-papers-from-journal-it-acquired-last-year/