Open access publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation, US, has announced that it has received over 5,400 submissions in March across its portfolio of over 300 open access journals, which represents an increase of 80 percent from March 2011.
In explaining the reasons for the company's growth, Hindawi's Editorial Manager, Mohamed Hamdy, emphasised the importance of the increasing coverage of Hindawi's journals by the major Abstracting and Indexing services.
In addition to the journals that are hosted on the company's main website (http://www.hindawi.com/), Hindawi has been developing a number of independent journal platforms over the past two years, each with a specific editorial focus. The first of these platforms was the ISRN series (http://www.isrn.com), which launched in mid-2010 with the aim of providing a fast-track review process for all submitted manuscripts. By March 2012 the ISRN series accounted for 20 percent of Hindawi's total submissions.
More recently Hindawi launched two new platforms including Datasets International (http://www.datasets.com/), which focuses on the publication of Dataset Papers as well as the underlying datasets that they describe, and Conference Papers in Science (http://www.cpis.com/), which publishes peer-reviewed manuscripts that arise from conference presentations and workshops. While it is still too early to evaluate the success of these new initiatives, Hindawi is hopeful that these platforms will be able to build significant momentum over the coming year.
