Company:SciRes Literature

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Short description: India-based academic journal publisher

SciRes Literature LLC is a publisher of academic journals. It has a postal address in Middletown, Delaware, US,[1] but is actually based in Hyderabad, India.[2][3] It started its activities in 2015.[4] The company uses an Open Access model of publishing, which charges the authors. Articles are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers. As of October 2022, none of its journals names a scientific editor-in-chief.[5]

Criticism

SciRes Literature was criticized for sending unsolicited emails to scientists.[3][4][6] Its Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences was criticized for presenting a misleading impact factor, as the impact factor reported is not identical with the highly regarded ISI impact factor from Web of Science.[7] SciRes Literature has also been criticized for using journal titles which mimic the names of established, indexed scientific journals.[8] The company has been included on Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers.[9]

Journals

References

  1. SciRes Literature Homepage. Accessed 9 September 2022
  2. SciRes Literature. Linkedin.com, accessed September 9m 2022
  3. 3.0 3.1 SciRes Literature Promises a "High prevalence of Publishing". Flaky Academic Journals, 22 Mar 2019, accessed 9 September 2022
  4. 4.0 4.1 Two New Pay-to-Publish Startups: SciRes Literature and Gavin Publishers. Emerald City Journal, 22 October 2015, accessed 9 September 2022
  5. Journals. SciRes Literature, accessed 13 October 2022
  6. 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, June 2021. Accessed 9 September 2022
  7. When is ISI not ISI?. Predatory Publishig, accessed 9 September 2022
  8. Opportunistic Journals in the Clinical Pharmacology Space. Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development, 2018. Accessed 9 September 2022
  9. Beall’s List of Potential Predatory Publishers, accessed 29 June 2022