Omics Publishing Group

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Omics Publishing Group (spelled OMICS) is a magazine publisher for scientific publications. The seat is in Hyderabad, India. Subsidiaries are iMedPub LTD and Conference Series LLC LTD . Other companies that belong to Omics are EuroSciCon Ltd , Allied Academies , Trade Science Inc , and Meetings International .

As a publisher and conference organizer, Omics is criticized for its dubious business practices and is characterized as a “ predatory publisher ”.

According to a ruling in 2019, the publisher is no longer allowed to operate in the USA and has to pay a $ 50 million fine. Omics wants to appeal.

Business activity

Omics began publishing in 2008. In 2015, the publisher ran 700 journals, primarily in the fields of medicine, engineering and natural sciences. Of these, however, half were not active. The titles of some omics magazines mimic existing reputable journals. Sun founded BioMed Central in 1995, the Journal of Biomedical Science , 2012 omics brought the Journal of Biomedical Science s out.

Omics works according to the open access model, in which authors publish scientific articles for a fee. The fees are between a few hundred and 1700 euros. The articles are accessible online to everyone without further restrictions.

Omics also organizes scientific meetings, conferences and workshops. In 2017 there were more than 3000 such events. They contributed 60% to sales.

In 2016, OMICS had sales of $ 11.6 million and profits of $ 1.2 million.

criticism

Omics is widely viewed as a " predatory publisher " that, contrary to its claims, does not check the scientific quality of the articles published for money. For example, journalists from the Süddeutsche Zeitung offered supposedly scientific magazine articles that were actually just scientific-sounding nonsense for publication. Neither the invented identity of the author, that of his research institute nor of the results of the work led to a rejection by the journal in the supposedly carried out peer review process, but only editorial advice was given to improve the appearance. After paying an article fee, the nonsense was published in a magazine online. Nonsensical contributions are also accepted at omics conferences, such as computer-generated nonsense, or contributions to prove that pigs can fly.

It was also criticized that scientists are listed as editors of OMICS journals or speakers at omics conferences without the concerned being informed or their consent being obtained.

In 2016, the US Federal Trade Commission filed a judicial complaint against Omics on charges of fraud. In 2017, an injunction was issued prohibiting Omics, among other things, from claiming that their journals were peer- reviewing articles by expert reviewers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All those OMICS linked companies in one place. Graham Readfearn (weblog), Jan. 21, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2018
  2. ↑ #FakeScience: Heavy fine for pseudo-scientific publisher , Tagesschau, April 3, 2019
  3. ^ A b c d Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem , Bloomberg, August 29, 2017
  4. ↑ Predatory publishers criticized for 'unethical, unprincipled' tactics . Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Nov. 11, 2015
  5. ↑ Article Processing Charges. OMICS International 'accessed October 4, 2018
  6. ↑ Days in Twilight. Die Zeit, October 26, 2017
  7. ↑ The OMICS Publishing Group's Empire is expanding. Scholarly OA (weblog). Memento from the Internet Archive from October 22, 2015
  8. ^ A b Predatory Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish. Chronicle.com, March 4, 2012
  9. ^ A b Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing. Nature , March 27, 2013
  10. ↑ a b Science Insider: US Government accuses Open Access publisher of Trademark Infringement. Science , May 9, 2013. Memento from the Internet Archive of May 10, 2013
  11. ↑ a b Inside India's fake research paper shops: pay, publish, profit. The Indian Express, July 19, 2018
  12. ↑ Dark men in the laboratory? Börsenblatt, July 23, 2018
  13. ↑ Nonsense paper written by iOS autocomplete accepted for conference . The Guardian, Oct. 21, 2016
  14. ↑ Fake science publisher offers shoddy continuing education for doctors, nurses . Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 2017
  15. ↑ When pigs fly: Fake science conferences abound for fraud and profit. Ottawa Citizen, March 3, 2017
  16. ^ Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers. The Charleston Advisor, July 1, 2010.
  17. ↑ https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/11/ftc-halts-deceptive-practices-academic-journal-publishers