We are now in 2025, and like last year, I will analyze the list of the computer science journals and conferences with the most withdrawal for the previous year (see this blog post for 2023).
Methodology
To verify how many papers have been withdrawn or retracted for the computer science field in 2024, I search in the DBLP database using the following query (access = withdrawn, year = 2024):
https://dblp.org/search/publ?q=access%3Awithdrawn%3A%20year%3A2024%3A
Thus, I only consider journal and conferences that are indexed in DBLP, which covers the best journals and conferences in computer science. I also only consider venues with at least 2 withdrawn papers.
Results
| Rank | Journal Name | Withdrawn paper Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 ▲ | J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst. | 45 ▲ (last year: 2) |
| 2 – | Multim. Tools Appl. | 27 ▼ (last year: 37) |
| 3 ▲ | Ann. Oper. Res. | 23▲ (last year： 2） |
| 4 | Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng. | 20▲ (new) |
| 5 | Trans. Emerg. Telecommun. Technol. | 11 ▲ (new) |
| 6 | Int. J. Speech Technol. | 9▲(new) |
| 7 ▲ | Pers. Ubiquitous Comput. | 9▲ (last year: 6) |
| 8 | Comput. Intell. | 9▲ (new) |
| 9 | Int. J. Pervasive Comput. Commun. | 7▲ (new) |
| 10 ▲ | EURASIP J. Inf. Secur. | 6▼(last year 5) |
| 11 | J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput. | 4▲ (new) |
| 12 ▲ | Neural Comput. Appl. | 3– (last year: 3) |
| 13 | Biomed. Signal Process. Control. | 3▲(new) |
| 14 | Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact. | 3▲ (new) |
| 15 | Phys. Commun. | 2▲(new) |
| 16 | Int. J. Commun. Syst. | 2▲(new) |
| 17 ▲ | Wirel. Pers. Commun. | 2– (last year: 2) |
By looking at this table and comparing with year 2023, some observations can be made.
First, the first position in the table has 45 withdrawn articles, which is much less than the 133 articles in Soft Computing from last year. In fact, Soft Computing is not in the table this year.
The top 3 positions in the table (J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst., Multim. Tools, Appl., and Ann. Oper Res.) were also in the table last year. Let’s analyse these three journals in more details:
For the Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, the number of withdrawn papers decreased from 37 to 27. But according to LetPub, the journal was expelled from the SCIE index on October 22, 2024.
The number of papers in the Journal of Intelligent Fuzzy Systems increased from 2 to 45. According to LetPub, this journal is still on hold.
As for the Annals of operations research Journal, the number of withdrawn papers increased from 2 to 23.
In the rest of the table, most of the entries are new. It is interesting that this year, there are no conferences in the ranking. Last year, it was quite surprising to see that the CVPR conference had three withdrawn papers.
Conclusion
This is short blog post to give some update about his metric of withdrawn papers per journals and conferences.
