New York, NY -- January 30, 2026. IGI Global Scientific Publishing, an international academic publisher of scientific research, has concluded its annual retraction review, reporting 29 total retracted manuscripts during the 2025 calendar year. This number includes 21 book chapters and eight journal articles and represents a small fraction of the more than 10,000 cumulative retractions estimated to occur annually by all academic publishers across the global scholarly publishing industry.
IGI Global Scientific Publishing, which actively publishes 176 open access journals and more than 1,000 academic books each year, emphasizes that retractions, when warranted, are an essential mechanism for preserving trust in scientific communication and ensuring the accuracy and credibility of the scholarly record.
Over the past two years, IGI Global Scientific Publishing has invested significant time and resources in strengthening its research integrity framework. These efforts include aligning editorial policies with industry standards, expanding editorial training in publication ethics, implementing more rigorous prepublication integrity checks for submitted manuscripts, and establishing a dedicated Publishing Ethics and Research Integrity Team. The publisher routinely monitors ethical concerns and promptly investigates and makes every effort to resolve issues such as plagiarism, citation manipulation, AI-generated content, peer review fraud, scope relevancy, and related misconduct. As a result, IGI Global Scientific Publishing continues to maintain comparatively low retraction rates within the industry.
"We believe the relatively low number of retractions reflects our improved preventative processes," said Melissa Wagner, Vice President of Publishing Ethics and Research Integrity at IGI Global Scientific Publishing. "We are focused on proactive measures, such as strengthening peer review, screening manuscripts for ethical issues, and deploying new tools to help safeguard the integrity of our publishing portfolio. That said, we take all misconduct allegations seriously and act decisively, including issuing immediate retractions when claims are substantiated. This approach aims to keep retractions below industry norms while ensuring that newly identified issues are addressed transparently and consistently."
IGI Global Scientific Publishing formally assesses all ethical concerns brought to its attention, with decisions guided by established standards set by leading organizations, including the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Retractions are issued in accordance with NISO RP-45-2024, Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Retraction Guidelines.
About IGI Global Scientific Publishing – Publishing Tomorrow's Research Today
IGI Global Scientific Publishing was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, and now has offices in New York City, London, and Beijing (IGI Science and Technology, Ltd.). The independent international academic publisher has dedicated over three decades to the production of high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly research books and journals in the major subject areas of Business & Management, Science, Technology, & Medicine (STM), and Education & Social Sciences. They have become an innovator in the publishing world that challenges industry norms in support of academics, researchers, and librarians globally.
The publisher is committed to promptly advancing the discovery of pioneering scientific research through swift and agile processes that protect and maintain the crucial peer-review process. IGI Global Scientific Publishing has collaborated on research publications with more than 200,000 experts from leading institutions around the world. Their collection of books has steadily grown, producing 1,250 new books annually, growing their full e-Book Collection to 10,000+ books available to libraries with affordable annual licensing. The IGI Global Scientific Publishing Open Access Journal Program is approaching 200 fully open access journals, making the publisher one of the largest 100% open access journal publishers in the world. Through traditional book publishing and open access options, IGI Global Scientific Publishing brings some of the highest-quality cutting-edge, trending, and niche research at the pace of innovation, ensuring that tomorrow's research is published today.