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Exhibit 1023

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2024 (Research segment, Hindawi)

Exhibit 1023 · SEC filing

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2024 (Research segment, Hindawi)

Hindawi’s special issues program was suspended in the third quarter of fiscal year 2023 due to the presence in certain special issues of compromised articles.

Wiley's annual report to the SEC states that Hindawi's special issues program was suspended in the third quarter of fiscal 2023 because certain special issues contained compromised articles, that open access article output fell 23% in fiscal 2024, and that Research revenue fell 3%. The filing states what the publisher decided and its revenue effect; it does not list the articles or the reviewers involved.

Source
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Date
26 June 2024
Quoted from
Item 7, Research segment results, fiscal 2024 vs 2023
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000114/jwa-20240430.htm
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Finding INF-3.3
Primary record Wiley's fiscal 2024 Form 10-K states that the Hindawi special issues program was suspended in the third quarter of fiscal 2023 because certain special issues contained compromised articles. The Lancet's retraction notice of 5 June 2020 records that three authors requested retraction after the data vendor would not transfer the full dataset for an independent audit and the audit reviewers withdrew.