Scientific Research Publishing
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Huaibei Zhou |
| Headquarters location | Wuhan, China |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Huaibei Zhou |
| Publication types | Academic journals and books |
| Nonfiction topics | Life sciences, economics, chemistry, computer science, environmental sciences, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, social sciences |
| No. of employees | About 160 |
| Official website | www |
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is an academic publisher of peer-reviewed open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies. As of December 2014[update], it offers 244English language open access journals in the areas of science, technology, business, economy, and medicine.
The company has been accused of being a predatory open access publisher and of using email spam to solicit papers for submission. In 2014 there was a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, with the outgoing Editor-in-Chief saying of the publisher "For them it was only about making money. We were simply their 'front'."
According to its website, SCIRP publishes fee-based open-access journals (Gold OA). Payments are incurred per article published. Authors are permitted to archive their work (Green OA). Preprint, postprint, and the publisher's PDF version may be used. According to the society's website, journals published are fully open access, with reuse rights based on CC-BY or CC BY-NC.
SCIRP was set up by a group of friends from the United States and from China to promote exchange between scholars. The company is a private corporation registered in the state of Delaware (United States) since 2007.
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