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IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.) is a U.S.-based international academic publishing company headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania that publishes books and 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.
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. IGI Global uses a double-blind peer review process for its books and 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.
Until 2009, IGI Global publications were manually typeset. After this date, it built an in-house workflow management system to produce its publications.
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 2021, Nick Newcomer, senior director of marketing and sales for IGI Global, writing for Research Information, 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 the journal Interpreting criticized IGI Global's handling of plagiarism. As of 2021, Beall's List listed IGI Global as a vanity press, noting that it is a member of COPE.
In 2023, IGI Global was assessed against other academic publishers by experts and compared with the Norway Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, where it is assessed at "Level 1", meaning that it meets the minimum requirements to be considered scientific. Also 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. In July 2023, the AI-powered Zendy Research Library signed a licensing agreement with IGI Global.
In April 2024, nearly 90% of IGI Global's frontlist books were indexed by Scopus.
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