The purpose of Procedia is to publish, for a fee, "proposed conference proceedings" in a "dedicated online issue".
Elsevier advertises this product as having a focus on delivering high quality content and maintains "Peer-review is under the responsibility of the conference organizers.
"[1][2][3][4] Elsevier formerly published Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences in which authors were permitted to directly self-publish.
[6] In 2017, it was discovered that a fake example reference listed on Elsevier's citation guide had been cited over 400 times in published articles.
[7][8] In 2018, Albania was hit with a scandal in which high-ranking politicians had faked their academic credentials by publishing fraudulent articles in Procedia.