Company:Pulsus Group

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Short description: Publisher of scientific, technical, and medical literature

Pulsus Group Ltd
IndustryAcademic publishing, academic conferences
Founded1984
FounderRobert Kalina
Headquarters
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Srinubabu Gedela
(Chief executive officer)
ProductsMedical journals
ServicesScience, technology, and medicine
Number of employees
5,000 (2019)
Websitepulsus.com

Pulsus Group is a health informatics and digital marketing company and publisher of scientific, technical, and medical literature.[1][2] It was formed in 1984, primarily to publish peer-reviewed medical journals. (As of 2016) Pulsus published 98 hybrid and full open-access journals, 15 of which had been adopted as the official publications of related medical societies.[3] Pulsus Group also conducts conferences in association with scientific societies.[4][5]

OMICS Publishing Group, an open access publisher widely regarded as predatory, purchased Pulsus in 2016, causing controversy and putting the future of the journals into question.[6] Pulsus was placed on Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable" predatory open-access publishers,[7] prior to the list being shut down in 2017.

History

The company was founded in 1984 by Robert Kalina to provide Canadian doctors with an alternative to American journals. In December 2015, Pulsus sold four of its journals to the open access publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation.[8] In 2016, Pulsus was bought by OMICS Publishing Group, an open access publisher widely regarded as predatory,[9][10][11][12][13][14] causing controversy and putting the future of the journals into question.[15][16] Kalina, the owner of Pulsus Group was retiring but could not find buyers for Pulsus Group's remaining journals, but claimed that the sale negotiated with OMICS would continue to protect the interests of the societies that own the journals.[17] Since the takeover by OMICS, several editors-in-chief have resigned[16] and a number of societies have decided to take their journals to a different publisher.[15] The CEO of OMICS has promised that the journals published by Pulsus will be run independently by the respective societies that they belong to, with OMICS only providing hosting, PDF formatting, and design.[18] Nonetheless, Jeffrey Beall added Pulsus Group to his list of "Potential, possible, or probable" predatory open-access publishers.[19]

Acquisitions

In September 2016, Pulsus Group acquired another Canadian publisher, Andrew John Publishing, including 17 medical journals associated with medical societies of the Middle East and Canada,[20] and some journals from the London based Future Science Publishing Group operating as Openaccessjournals.com.[21]

Predatory behavior

In 2019 it was reported that Pulsus journals were listing on their mastheads three professors from the University of Toronto, two of whom had disassociated themselves from the journals in 2014 and 2016, and the third of whom had never agreed to be associated with the journal. After this discovery, the professors' names were removed from the journals.[22]

Indian operations

Pulsus is operating from Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam providing services in HealthTech, health informatics, medical publishing, and pharmacovigilance services.[23][24][25] Pulsus has 5,000 employees.[26]

Pulsus' Visakhapatnam and Chennai offices translate their annual conferences and medical journals' information in local languages such as Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali.[27]

Pulsus Visakhapatnam has created more women employment since inception,[28] through the campus placements in and around Andhra Pradesh.[29][30] Taking the inspiration from Narendra Modi, PULSUS employees conducted "Say no to plastic campaign" in association with Software Technology Parks of India[31] and conducted rallies to support Andhra Pradesh Disha act and to secure women employees.[32]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Basu, Arpit M. (January 1, 2021). "Smaller tech firms homing in on Visakhapatnam". The Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/smaller-tech-firms-homing-in-on-vizag/articleshow/80050517.cms. 
  2. ↑ "Pulsus opens healthcare informatics, pharmacovigilance facility in Chennai". The Times of India. March 9, 2018. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/pulsus-opens-healthcare-informatics-pharmacovigilance-facility-in-chennai/articleshow/63236743.cms. 
  3. ↑ "Pulsus Profile". Pulsus Group. http://www.pulsus.com/pulsus-profile.html. 
  4. ↑ "Pulsus 2017 16th International Conference on Nephrology". Biospace.com. http://www.biospace.com/calendar_event_details.aspx?CalendarEventEntityId=696573. 
  5. ↑ "Annual World Congress on Biomarkers and Clinical Research". Military-Technologies.net. http://www.military-technologies.net/2017/03/29/annual-world-congress-on-biomarkers-and-clinical-research/. 
  6. ↑ Deprez, Esmé E.; Chen, Caroline (2017-08-29). "Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem". Bloomberg News. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-29/medical-journals-have-a-fake-news-problem. 
  7. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey. "LIST OF PUBLISHERS". Scholarly Open Access. http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/. 
  8. ↑ Brown, C. (3 October 2016). "Alleged predatory publisher buys medical journals". Canadian Medical Association Journal 188 (16): E398. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-5338. PMID 27698198. 
  9. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey. "The OMICS Publishing Group's Empire is Expanding". http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/12/18/the-omics-publishing-groups-empire-is-expanding/. 
  10. ↑ Stratford, Michael (2012-03-04). "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish". The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/article/Predatory-Online-Journals/131047/. Retrieved 2012-10-02. 
  11. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2010-07-01). "Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers". The Charleston Advisor 12: 50. doi:10.5260/chara.12.1.50. http://eprints.rclis.org/17052/1/ChAdvisorUpdate.pdf. 
  12. ↑ Butler, Declan (2013). "Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing". Nature 495 (7442): 433–435. doi:10.1038/495433a. PMID 23538810. Bibcode: 2013Natur.495..433B. 
  13. ↑ Kaiser, Jocelyn (9 May 2013). "U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement". https://www.science.org/content/article/us-government-accuses-open-access-publisher-trademark-infringement. 
  14. ↑ "On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind" The Hindu, 26 September 2012.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chown, Marco; Favaro, Avis; St. Philip, Elizabeth (29 September 2016). "Canadian medical journals hijacked for junk science". Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/09/29/canadian-medical-journals-hijacked-for-junk-science.html. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Puzic, Sonja (29 September 2016). "Offshore firm accused of publishing junk science takes over Canadian journals". CTV News. http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/offshore-firm-accused-of-publishing-junk-science-takes-over-canadian-journals-1.3093472. 
  17. ↑ "Canadian Medical Association Journal: Alleged predatory publisher buys medical journals". 3 October 2016. http://www.cmaj.ca/site/earlyreleases/3oct16_alleged-predatory-publisher-buys-medical-journals-cmaj.109-5338.xhtml. 
  18. ↑ "Full statement by Srinubabu Gedela, CEO and Managing Director of OMICS Group". CTV Television Network. 29 September 2016. http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/full-statement-by-srinubabu-gedela-ceo-and-managing-director-of-omics-group-1.3092975. 
  19. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2016-09-29). "Scam Publisher OMICS International Buying Legitimate Journals". Scholarly Open Access. https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/09/29/scam-publisher-omics-international-buying-legitimate-journals/. 
  20. ↑ Babu, Abhishek (2016-09-16). "Pulsus Group Takes over Andrew John Publications: A Major Break Through in Medical Publishing" (Press release). Pulsus Group. PRWeb. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
  21. ↑ Babu, Abhishek (2016-09-20). "Pulsus Acquires openaccessjournals.com: The Peer Reviewed Open Access Journals Publisher" (Press release). Pulsus Group. PRWeb. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
  22. ↑ Heimlich, Peter M. (April 22, 2019). "Medical journals published by "predatory" publisher claim three University of Toronto faculty members are editors". The Sidebar. http://www.the-sidebar.com/2019/04/medical-journals-published-by-predatory.html.  See also "Weekend reads". Retraction Watch. April 27, 2019. http://retractionwatch.com/2019/04/27/weekend-reads-a-u-s-govt-memo-on-publishing-leaves-scientists-in-disbelief-money-wasted-on-flawed-research-an-eye-doctor-whose-research-subjects-were-at-risk/. 
  23. ↑ Basu, Arpit M. (January 1, 2021). "Smaller tech firms homing in on Visakhapatnam". The Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/smaller-tech-firms-homing-in-on-vizag/articleshow/80050517.cms. 
  24. ↑ "Pulsus opens healthcare informatics, pharmacovigilance facility in Chennai". The Times of India. March 9, 2018. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/pulsus-opens-healthcare-informatics-pharmacovigilance-facility-in-chennai/articleshow/63236743.cms. 
  25. ↑ "Pulsus campaign in association with STPI against plastic use". The Hans India. October 4, 2019. https://www.thehansindia.com/andhra-pradesh/pulsus-campaign-in-association-with-stpi-against-plastic-use-569720. 
  26. ↑ "Pulsus CEO, Dr. Srinubabu Gedela received Pride of the Nation Award". The Hans India. July 22, 2019. https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/pulsus-ceo-dr-srinubabu-gedela-received-pride-of-the-nation-award-548664. 
  27. ↑ "Now, healthcare information in Telugu just a click away". The New Indian Express. March 15, 2018. https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2018/mar/15/now-healthcare-information-in-telugu--just-a-click-away-1787338.html. 
  28. ↑ "‘Upcoming IT hub will employ more women’: Pulsus CEO". The New Indian Express. February 15, 2022. https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2022/feb/15/upcoming-it-hub-will-employ-more-women-pulsus-ceo-2419599.html. 
  29. ↑ "Andhra Pradesh: job mela evokes good response from pharmacy, engineering students". The Hindu. February 26, 2022. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-job-mela-evokes-good-response-from-pharmacy-engineering-students/article65086946.ece. 
  30. ↑ "PULSUS unit coming up at IT-Special Economic Zone". The Hans India. March 15, 2018. https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2018-03-15/PULSUS-unit-coming-up-at-IT-Special-Economic-Zone/366349. 
  31. ↑ "Pulsus campaign in association with STPI against plastic use". The Hans India. October 4, 2019. https://www.thehansindia.com/andhra-pradesh/pulsus-campaign-in-association-with-stpi-against-plastic-use-569720. 
  32. ↑ "Disha Act-2019 gaining popularity in North Andhra districts". The Hindu. February 6, 2020. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/disha-act-2019-gaining-popularity-in-north-andhra-districts/article30372661.ece. 

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