What the Collapse of Hindawi Reveals About Systemic Risk in Scholarly Communication | Katina Magazine

"Over the past decade, Hindawi expanded rapidly from a small open access (OA) publisher into a large, multi-journal operation publishing tens of thousands of articles annually. This period of growth coincided with an increase in submissions later linked to paper mills. By 2023–2024, public reporting documented that more than 8,000 articles across a broad range of Hindawi journals were affected, prompting one of the largest coordinated retraction efforts in scholarly publishing to date (Kincaid, 2023-a). Earlier stages of this process included plans to retract more than 1,200 papers due to compromised peer review (Kincaid, 2023-b).

Available reporting further indicates that these articles were distributed across much of the Hindawi portfolio rather than confined to a small number of titles, suggesting challenges that extended beyond isolated editorial issues (Kincaid, 2023-a)."