The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers retracted 57 articles on October 1, 2024 for inadequate peer review, according to the publisher. The papers appeared in the journal IEEE Access between July and September of 2020. The journal is open-access, with a current article processing charge of $1,995. It appears to have published more than 10,000 articles so far this year.
The notices retracting each article were identical, and stated: "After careful and considered review by a duly constituted expert committee, this article was retracted owing to irregularities in the peer review process, including acceptance for publication without the minimum number of independent reviews required by IEEE."
IEEE Access has also issued about 40 corrections this month removing retracted articles from papers’ reference lists.
