OMICS Group Inc
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| Parent company | OMICS Group Inc |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Srinubabu Gedela |
| Country of origin | India |
| Headquarters location | Hyderabad |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Publication types | Open access journals |
| Nonfiction topics | Science, technology, and medicine |
| Number of employees | 1500 |
| Official website | www |
OMICS Publishing Group is a publisher of open access journals that is widely regarded as predatory. It issued its first publication in 2008. According to a 2012 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about 60 percent of the group's 200 journals had never actually published anything.
Academics and the United States government have questioned the validity of peer review by OMICS journals, the appropriateness of author fees and marketing, and the apparent advertising of the names of scientists as journal editors or conference speakers without their knowledge or permission. As a result, the U.S. National Institutes of Health does not accept OMICS publications for listing in PubMed Central and sent a cease-and-desist letter to OMICS in 2013, demanding that OMICS discontinue false claims of affiliation with U.S. government entities or employees. OMICS has responded to criticisms by avowing a commitment to open access publishing, claiming that detractors are traditional subscription-based publishers who feel threatened by their open access publishing model, and threatening a prominent critic with a US$1 billion lawsuit.
OMICS Publishing Group was founded in 2007 by Srinubabu Gedela, who remains the company's director. It started its first open-access journal, the Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics, in 2008. In 2012, OMICS Group had more than 200 journal titles, about 60% of which had no content. By 2015, it claimed over 700 titles, but an article published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation stated that "half of them are defunct, and the rest are suffering a credibility problem".
OMICS operates on an open access model, wherein the author pays for publication and the publisher makes the articles available for free. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, some open access journals are legitimate, while others are vanity publications "that accept virtually any article to collect fees from the authors." There is not always a clear distinction between the two. The publication fee for OMICS journals vary from the low hundreds up to $2,700. OMICS also charges a withdrawal fee (stated as 30% of the article processing charge) should a paper be withdrawn more than a week after submission.
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