Moreover, the number of papers accepted by around New Year was about 900, it has grown since by at least around 40 new articles. That means that the old board is still acting and that Elsevier is doing this. Instead Elsevier bans on new submissions what is an unheard practice for a journal in existance!

One should either cancel the journal or do a Hercules job of make it a quality journal. Though I do not believe the latter were easy. the rest of the board was complient to bad peer reviewing practices. Some of the members of the board confirmed in letters to me that their names were there without their prior consent. Most of others did not respond to my emails if they agreed or not with the current editorial practices as of June 2008. Now who would like to take a role of an editor in the board with such a history. The whole board needs to be replaced at minimum. But I think the chances to regain the value after being so reluctant and defending the undefendable, and prolonging the agony by publishing the badly reviewing papers, is close to zero. I received letters from many members of scientific community and the opinion in general is that chaossf has practically no chance to survive, all the damage the bad past and current practices of the board
and reluctance of Elsevier to act have done.

Zoran Skoda

I can’t comment on the legal hearsay. The journal description page says that the publisher is seeking a new editor.

The note about the “temporary submission stop” has been removed.

Where did you get this news? As of today, the website for the journal still says “the Founding Editor for Chaos, Solitons and Fractals Dr El Naschie will retire as Editor-in-Chief.” It’s said this since late December, but there have been reports saying that El Naschie does not intend to step down, and is threatening to sue the publisher (Elsevier) to maintain control of his journal.

Where is the list of 942 accepted articles? How many are by El Naschie, or other people working on “E-infinity theory”?