Science Publishing Group

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Science Publishing Group is a scientific publication publisher located in New York, United States. In fact, the publisher is based in Pakistan .

history

The publishing house started its business in 2012. He publishes 476 scientific journals (as of January 2018). Areas include biology, chemistry, medicine, physics, materials science, mathematics and statistics, computer science, environmental science, architecture, transport and logistics, engineering, economics, education, social sciences, art, literature and linguistics.

The business model of the publisher is that scientists publish research articles in the published journals and pay fees for them ( open access model). The publisher states that the articles submitted would be peer-reviewed ; H. the submitted manuscripts would be critically examined by other scientists.

Fraud allegations

The seriousness of the publisher and the scientific value of their journals are called into question. The publisher was accused of fraud and was only feigning peer review. In an experiment, the university professor Fiona McQuarrie submitted a nonsensical article circulating on the Internet under the name Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel (two characters from the animated series The Simpsons ) to the International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science of the Science Publishing Group the random number generator SCIgen had been generated. The article was accepted for publication. The librarian Jeffrey Beall , who was the first to publish a list of “ predatory publishers ”, published a nonsense article under a false name on the mathematical proof of Buddhist karma in the alleged mathematics journal American Journal of Applied Mathematics of the Science Publishing Group.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Science Publishing Group website. Accessed August 31, 2018
  2. ↑ Beall J (2018): Scientific soundness and the problem of predatory journals . in: Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science , Kaufman AB & Kaufman JC (Eds.), pp. 183-300 ISBN 978-0-262-03742-6 .
  3. ^ A b c Predatory journals exploit structural weaknesses in scholarly publishing . 4open, June 1, 2018. Accessed August 31, 2018
  4. ^ List of journals. Science Publishing Group website, accessed August 31, 2018
  5. ^ Science Publishing Group: Open Access is the Future of Academic Publishing . Press release, March 30, 2017, published on finanzen.at. Retrieved August 31, 2018
  6. ^ Science Publishing Group (SciencePG) . Flaky Academic Journals (weblog), January 28, 2017
  7. ^ Science Publishing Group: A Complete Scam . Emerald City Journal, May 24, 2016
  8. ↑ American Journal of Modern Physics . Not Even Wrong (weblog), March 7, 2013. Accessed August 31, 2018
  9. ^ Predatory Journals: An Experiment. All About Work (weblog), January 26, 2015. Accessed August 31, 2018
  10. ^ Mathematical proof of the Law of Karma . American Journal of Applied Mathematics 2014; 2 (4): 111-126. Accessed August 31, 2018