Draft:IGI Global

IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.) is a U.S.-based international academic publishing company headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania that publishes books and academic journals across a variety of subject areas. In 2019, IGI Global was assessed in a Springer Nature white paper as the 7th largest scientific, medical, and technical (STM) publisher. The company has been accused of engaging in predatory publishing and criticized for its handling of plagiarism.

History
IGI Global (originally Idea Group Inc.) was founded in 1988 by a former professor at the Pennsylvania State University (USA). The organization started as a publisher of research content in the field of information science and technology as it is applied to multiple disciplines, such as education, library science, healthcare, public administration, and computer science. In 2002, IGI Global began offering content in electronic formats. Until 2009, IGI Global publications were manually typeset. After this date, it built an in-house workflow management system to produce its publications. As of 2012, IGI Global sponsored conferences such as the Charleston Conference.

IGI Global is listed as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It is also listed as a SHERPA/RoMEO blue publisher and employs a hybrid model of Open Access for its journals. In 2007 and 2008, two blog posts by Debora Weber-Wulff and Ian Bogost noted that IGI Global may engage in "write-only publishing" of its books, as recorded in a later journal article. Beall's List lists IGI Global as a vanity press. In 2021, Nick Newcomer, writing for Research Ethics, claimed that IGI Global's small-run monographs are aimed at promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for its authors, which resulted in what he called "malicious mislabeling". The same year, an editorial piece in a competing journal criticized IGI Global's handling of plagiarism. IGI Global uses a double-blind peer review process for its books and journals.

In 2018, over 150 IGI Global publications were indexed by Scopus. In 2019, IGI Global was assessed in a Springer Nature white paper as the 7th largest scientific, medical, and technical (STM) publisher in a top ten list of publishers, with a total of 116 books, 2,286 chapters, 2,339 citations, and an average of 20 citations per book. In 2023, IGI Global's InfoSci Database was a collection of all of its 7.300+ reference books, handbooks, and encyclopedias, and c.30,000+ peer-reviewed journal articles (with 1,000,000+ citation references), including indexing by Scopus and Web of Science. IGI Global provides libraries with access to e-books in 11 core subject areas, with contributions by over 100,000 international researchers and experts.

Imprints
IGI Global publishes English language content under the following imprints:
 * Information Science Reference
 * Medical Information Science Reference
 * Business Science Reference
 * Engineering Science Reference
 * IGI Publishing

Journals
IGI Global publishes a number of academic journals including:


 * Journal of Cases on Information Technology
 * International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining
 * Journal of Database Management
 * International Journal of e-Collaboration
 * Journal of Global Information Management
 * Information Resources Management Journal
 * International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
 * International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
 * Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
 * International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
 * International Journal of Technoethics
 * International Journal of Web Services Research