Company:Herald Scholarly Open Access
Herald Scholarly Open Access is a publisher of various academic journals. It has a postal address in Herndon, Virginia, United States,[1] but is actually based in Hyderabad, India.[2][3] Herald Scholarly Open Access has been included on Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers,[4] and has faced other criticisms of its publishing practices.
Activities
Herald Scholarly Open Access has been active at least since 2015.[1] The company uses an Open Access model of publishing, which charges the authors. Articles are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers. The company claims that articles are peer reviewed before publication.[1] In 2022, the company published about 73 journals in the fields of clinical and medical science, life sciences, and pharma. Of the first 10 journals listed by the company in July 2022, eight did not have a scientific editor-in-chief.[5] Its journals are not indexed in Medline, Scopus or Web of Science.
Criticism
Herald Scholarly Open Access was listed in Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers.[4] The company has been criticized for sending out email spam to scientists, calling out for papers,[6][7] and for choosing journal titles mimicking the titles of established, indexed journals.[8]
Journals
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Herald Scholarly Open Access, accessed July 1, 2022
- ↑ Herald Open Access Publishers. zaubacorp.com, accessed July 1, 2022
- ↑ Herald Scholarly Open Access Reviews. ambitionbox.com, accessed July 1, 2022
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Beall’s List of Potential Predatory Publishers, accessed June 29, 2022
- ↑ see Advances in industrial Biotechnology, Advances in Microbiology Research, Arcives of Surgery and Surgical Education, Archives of Urology, Archives of Zoological Studies, Current Trends Medical and Biological Engineering, International Journal of Case Reports and Therapeutic Studies, Journal of AIDS Clinical Research & STDs
- ↑ McKenzie M, Nickerson D, Ball CG. Predatory publishing solicitation: a review of a single surgeon's inbox and implications for information technology resources at an organizational level. Canadian Journal of Surgery 2021, Jun 9;64(3):E351-E357. doi: 10.1503/cjs.003020. PMID: 34105930
- ↑ Herald Scholarly Open Access (HSOA). Flaky Academic Journals (weblog), December 26, 2016, accessed July 1, 2022
- ↑ Opportunistic Journals in the Clinical Pharmacology Space. Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development 2018, 7(4) 353–357
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