According to information on the website of EMH Swiss Medical Publishers, the Swiss Medical Association FMH holds a 55% stake in the firm. But on Aug. 22, 2024, the FMH’s board terminated its collaboration with the publishing house, including licensing for the association’s journal Schweizerische Ärztezeitung (Swiss Medical Journal), with immediate effect. 

"In doing so, [the association] deprived its own company of its livelihood. EMH filed its balance sheet today and thus opened bankruptcy proceedings", the publisher said in a notice posted on its website on September 4, 2024. One of the affected titles, the Scopus-indexed Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, is more than a century old. It was the only psychiatry journal in Switzerland, a country known for its contributions to that field, and among the most widely read medical journals there.

"From a researcher point of view, it is really sad to see the Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy vanishing, as it is a well-respected and Scopus-listed journal", said a physician-researcher in Switzerland, who asked to remain anonymous. "To cancel all papers under review also seems to be an unusual decision, and I am unsure what happens to accepted, but not yet published papers".