Bentham Science Publishers
| Founded | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United Arab Emirates |
| Headquarters location | Sharjah |
| Publication types | Scientific journals, e-books |
| Official website | benthamscience |
Bentham Science Publishers is a company that publishes scientific, technical, and medical journals and e-books. It publishes more than 100 subscription-based academic journals and over 150 open access journals. It is based at Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, and has operating units in the United States, Japan, China, India, and the Netherlands. More than 90 percent of the workforce is outsourced to Pakistan. Other outsource operations are in China, UK, USA, India and other countries. Its open access branch, Bentham Open Science, has received some criticism for its questionable peer-review practices, and was listed as a "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publisher" in Jeffrey Beall's list of Predatory Publishers, however as of January 15th 2017 Bentham Open has been removed from Beall's list.
Bentham Science has three main operating divisions: subscription-based journals, open access titles, and e-books. They publish research literature in all areas of science, medicine, technology, humanities, and social sciences, which is available in both electronic and print versions.
Bentham Science publishes more than 100 subscription-based journals in the fields of biotechnology, biomedical, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, computer and social sciences. These titles are indexed in Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubsHub, etc.
Bentham Open Access publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed, free-to-view online journals under Bentham Open. This imprint has been identified as a predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall.
Bentham eBooks publish text books, handbooks, monographs, biographies, autobiographies, conference proceedings and review volumes in the areas of medicine, technology, humanities, natural, and social sciences.
Bentham Open journals claim to employ peer review; however, the fact that a fake paper generated with SCIgen had been accepted for publication, has cast doubt on this. Furthermore, the publisher is known for spamming scientists with invitations to become a member of the editorial boards of its journals.
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