Hindawi is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals currently active in scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature. It was founded in 1997 in Cairo, Egypt, but purchased in 2021 by John Wiley & Sons, a publishing company based in the United States.[3] The company has its headquarters in London, an office in Cairo, and a virtual office address in New York City.
As of 2022, Hindawi publishes over 250 journals, including 64 journals indexed within the Science Citation Index Expanded, and 1 journal indexed within the Social Sciences Citation Index,[4] with a total of 64 journals ranked with an impact factor.
Since 2007, all of Hindawi's journals have been open access and published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY).[5] It is a founding member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association,[6] a participating publisher and supporter of the Initiative for Open Citations,[7][8] and a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).[9][10]
In 2010, Hindawi was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall, but was removed following a successful appeal.[11]