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| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Huaibei Zhou |
| Headquarters location | Wuhan, China |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Huaibei Zhou |
| Publication types | Academic journals and books |
| Nonfiction topics | Life sciences, economics, chemistry, computer science, environmental sciences, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, social sciences |
| Owner(s) | Wuhan Erwan Culture Communication Co., Ltd. Wuhan Grand Technology Service Co., Ltd. |
| No. of employees | About 160[citation needed] |
| Official website | www |
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is a predatory[1][2][3] academic publisher of open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies that are considered to be of questionable quality.[4][5][6] As of December 2014[update], it offered 244 English-language open-access journals in the areas of science, technology, business, economy, and medicine.[7]
The company has been accused of using email spam to solicit papers for submission.[8] Although it has an address in southern California, according to Jeffrey Beall it is a Chinese operation.[8] In 2014 there was a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, Advances in Anthropology, with the outgoing editor-in-chief saying of the publisher "For them it was only about making money. We were simply their 'front'."[9]
- ^ Beall, Jeffrey (2017-01-03). "Beall's List of Predatory Publishers 2017". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Linacre, Simon (2021-07-07). "The Source / No signs of slowing". Cabells Predatory Reports. Archived from the original on 2022-01-08. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
The Open Journal of Epidemiology is one of 99 journals that Cabells listed in its Predatory Reports database last month, and is published by a well-known predatory publisher known as SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing) based in China.
- ^ Nishikawa-Pacher, Andreas; Heck, Tamara; Schoch, Kerstin (2022-10-04). "Open Editors: A dataset of scholarly journals' editorial board positions". Research Evaluation. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvac037. ISSN 0958-2029.
... five publishers known to be predatory were likewise included in the sample, namely ... Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) .... SCIRP and OMICS are widely known to host 'fake journals'
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OCwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Jeffrey Beall (2014-12-16). "The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science". Archived from the original on 2014-12-27. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
- ^ a b Beall, Jeffrey (April 2012). "Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers" (PDF). The Charleston Advisor. 13 (4): 5–10. doi:10.5260/chara.13.4.5.
- ^ Beall, Jeffrey (2014-10-02). "An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2015-04-11. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
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