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Revision as of 02:06, 17 January 2015 edit31.19.210.13 (talk) What Beall states has nothing to do with his list of criteria! We can not write this, because it would be OR. So, I just want to separate these separate things with a blank line. Just leave it! Ok?← Previous edit Revision as of 02:22, 17 January 2015 edit undo31.19.210.13 (talk) "its journals" means "all of its journals". Abrahams collected prove for one. Sanderson wrote "at least two". Maybe more, but prove is missing. Let's just get these statements correct. May one more edit stay? Thanks.Next edit →
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== Controversies == == Controversies ==
Scientific Research Publishing generated controversy in 2009 when it was found that its journals duplicated papers which had already been published elsewhere, without notification of or permission from the original author and of the copyright holder.<ref name="SandersonKatharine"></ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.improbable.com/2009/12/22/strangest-academic-journals/ |title=Improbable Research - Blog Archive - Strange academic journals: Scam? |publisher=Improbable.com |date=2009-12-22 |accessdate=2013-03-02}}</ref> Several of these publications have subsequently been retracted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/category/by-publisher/scientific-research-publishing/ |title=RetractionWatch}}</ref> Some of the journals had listed academics on their ]s without their permission or even knowledge, sometimes in fields very different from their own.<ref name="SandersonKatharine"></ref> In 2012, one of its journals, ''Advances in Pure Mathematics'', accepted a paper written by a ]. The paper was not published, but only due to its author's unwillingness to pay the publication fee.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/math-journal-accepts-computer.html |first=Cory |last=Doctorow |authorlink=Cory Doctorow |title=Math journal accepts computer-generated nonsense paper |work=] |date=October 19, 2012 |postscript=.}}</ref> The company has also been noted for the many ] it sends to academics about its journals.<ref name=Beall12/><ref name="SandersonKatharine" /> Scientific Research Publishing generated controversy in 2009 when it was found that "at least two journals"<ref name="SandersonKatharine"></ref> duplicated papers which had already been published elsewhere, without notification of or permission from the original author and of the copyright holder.<ref name="SandersonKatharine"></ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.improbable.com/2009/12/22/strangest-academic-journals/ |title=Improbable Research - Blog Archive - Strange academic journals: Scam? |publisher=Improbable.com |date=2009-12-22 |accessdate=2013-03-02}}</ref> Several of these publications have subsequently been retracted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/category/by-publisher/scientific-research-publishing/ |title=RetractionWatch}}</ref> Some of the journals had listed academics on their ]s without their permission or even knowledge, sometimes in fields very different from their own.<ref name="SandersonKatharine"></ref> In 2012, one of its journals, ''Advances in Pure Mathematics'', accepted a paper written by a ]. The paper was not published, but only due to its author's unwillingness to pay the publication fee.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/math-journal-accepts-computer.html |first=Cory |last=Doctorow |authorlink=Cory Doctorow |title=Math journal accepts computer-generated nonsense paper |work=] |date=October 19, 2012 |postscript=.}}</ref> The company has also been noted for the many ] it sends to academics about its journals.<ref name=Beall12/><ref name="SandersonKatharine" />


The company has been included in a list of questionable open access publishers,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ |title=List of Predatory Publishers 2014 |date=2014 |accessdate=2014-04-21 |author=Beall, Jeffrey}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ |title=Beall's list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers |date=2014 |accessdate=2014-04-21 |author=Beall, Jeffrey}}</ref> according to ]'s criteria.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open-access-publishers-2nd-edition |title=Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) |date=2009-12-01 |accessdate=2013-03-03 |author=Beall, Jeffrey}}</ref> The company has been included in a list of questionable open access publishers,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ |title=List of Predatory Publishers 2014 |date=2014 |accessdate=2014-04-21 |author=Beall, Jeffrey}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ |title=Beall's list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers |date=2014 |accessdate=2014-04-21 |author=Beall, Jeffrey}}</ref> according to ]'s criteria.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open-access-publishers-2nd-edition |title=Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) |date=2009-12-01 |accessdate=2013-03-03 |author=Beall, Jeffrey}}</ref>

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Scientific Research Publishing
StatusActive
Founded2007 (2007)
FounderHuaibei Zhou
Headquarters locationWuhan, China
DistributionWorldwide
Key peopleHuaibei Zhou
Publication typesAcademic journals and books
Nonfiction topicsLife sciences, economics, chemistry, computer science, environmental sciences, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, social sciences
No. of employeesAbout 160
Official websitewww.scirp.org

Scientific Research Publishing is an academic publisher of peer-reviewed open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies. As of December 2014, it offers 244 English language open access journals in the areas of science, technology, business, economy, and medicine. Its principal place of business is in Wuhan, China.

The company has been accused of being a predatory open access publisher, and of abusing bulk email.

Open access type

According to Scientific Research Publishing's website it publishes fee-based open-access journals (Gold OA). Payments are incurred per article published. Authors are permitted to archive their work (Green OA). Preprint, postprint and the publisher's PDF version may be used. According to Scientific Research Publishing's website, journals published are fully open access, with reuse rights based on CC-BY or CC BY-NC. All of its journals are archived by PORTICO.

History

The organization was set up by a group of friends from the United States and from China to promote exchange between scholars. Today SCIRP is part of a publishing group together with Hans Publishers (Chinese language scholarly OA journals) and Open Access Library (Multifunctional: search engine, index of external OA articles, repository, and mega journal).

It is a registered corporation in the state of Delaware, USA. First registration was in 2007.

Controversies

Scientific Research Publishing generated controversy in 2009 when it was found that "at least two journals" duplicated papers which had already been published elsewhere, without notification of or permission from the original author and of the copyright holder. Several of these publications have subsequently been retracted. Some of the journals had listed academics on their editorial boards without their permission or even knowledge, sometimes in fields very different from their own. In 2012, one of its journals, Advances in Pure Mathematics, accepted a paper written by a random text generator. The paper was not published, but only due to its author's unwillingness to pay the publication fee. The company has also been noted for the many unsolicited bulk emails it sends to academics about its journals.

The company has been included in a list of questionable open access publishers, according to Jeffrey Beall's criteria.

Beall states that "This publisher exists for two reasons. First, it exists to exploit the author-pays Open Access model to generate revenue, and second, it serves as an easy place for foreign (chiefly Chinese) authors to publish overseas and increase their academic status." He acknowledges that its fees are relatively low, describing this as "a strategy that increases article submissions," and that "it has attracted some quality article submissions. Nevertheless, it is really a vanity press."

Beall points out that "Scientific Research Publishing ... like many questionable open-access publishers, ... is registered in Delaware" and therefore wonders "if the firm reports its income".

Further controversy was generated by a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, Advances in Anthropology, in 2014. According to the former editor-in-chief, Fatimah Jackson, it was motivated by failures to include the editorial board in the journal's review process, and by "consistent and flagrant unethical breaches by the editorial staff in China", for whom publishing the journal "was only about making money." According to Beall, this was the first mass-resignation from an open-access journal.

See also

References

  1. ^ "AboutUs". SCIRP. Retrieved 2015-01-04. Cite error: The named reference "SCIRP" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ Beall, Jeffrey (April 2012). "Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers". The Charleston Advisor. 13 (4): 5–10. doi:10.5260/chara.13.4.5.
  3. ^ "Scientific Research Publishing". SHERPA. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  4. ^ Jeffrey Beall (2014-12-16). "The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science". Retrieved 2015-01-08.
  5. "Who Participates in Portico?". PORTICO (organisation). Retrieved 2014-09-25.
  6. ^ Sanderson, Katharine (2010). "Two new journals copy the old". Nature. 463 (7278): 148. doi:10.1038/463148a. PMID 20075892.
  7. "SCIRP-FAQ: Who are the companies in the publishing group together with SCIRP?". SCIRP. 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
  8. "Improbable Research - Blog Archive - Strange academic journals: Scam?". Improbable.com. 2009-12-22. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
  9. "RetractionWatch".
  10. Doctorow, Cory (October 19, 2012). "Math journal accepts computer-generated nonsense paper". BoingBoing.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  11. Beall, Jeffrey (2014). "List of Predatory Publishers 2014". Retrieved 2014-04-21.
  12. Beall, Jeffrey (2014). "Beall's list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers". Retrieved 2014-04-21.
  13. Beall, Jeffrey (2009-12-01). "Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition)". Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  14. Beall, Jeffrey (2014-07-31). "Is Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) Publishing Pseudo-Science?". Retrieved 2015-01-08.
  15. Beall, Jeffrey (2014-10-02). "An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal". Scholarly Open Access. Retrieved 2015-01-08.

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