Scientific Reports has temporarily suspended the PubMed index. Important things for graduate students to know

The Naresuan University Graduate School informed Retraction Watch on October 30, 2026 that the National Library of Medicine (NLM), U.S.A., was in the process of reviewing Springer Nature's Scientific Reports journal status, resulting in a temporary suspension of the indexing of new articles in MEDLINE and the introduction of articles into PubMed Central (PMC). It was not concluded that the journal had been permanently removed from its database, and this did not mean that the journal had been automatically removed from Scopus or Web of Science.The Graduate School asks advisors and students to review the database and graduation conditions before submitting articles, collect evidence of article submissions and indexing status, coordinate programs and graduate schools if they have concerns, and track data directly from NLM and publishers based on risk surveillance principles, along with protecting the rights and fairness of students.

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