Future Medicine Explained

Future Medicine Ltd
Location:Unitec House, 2 Albert Place, London, N3 1QB, UK
Industry:Academic publishing

Future Medicine is a privately owned company based in London, England, United Kingdom. It is part of Future Science Publishing Group, primarily to publish peer-reviewed medical journals. Future Medicine publishes hybrid and full open access journals.[1]

Business model

Future Medicine publishes open access or subscription journals, which are owned by the respective societies they serve. The open access journals require authors to pay an article processing charge.[2] The company also provides an accelerated publication option, with speedy processing and publication of accepted articles within 6 weeks of submission.[3]

Journals

In 2016, the company sold several of its journals to OMICS Publishing Group, who moved them to Pulsus Group, a company they recently acquired.[4] [5] OMICS is widely regarded as predatory publisher.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

The journals sold were[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Future Science Group . . 29 July 2016 . 15 July 2016.
  2. Web site: Open Access Authors Option . future-science-group.com . 2016-10-05.
  3. Web site: Accelerated publication option . futuremedicine.com . 2016-10-05.
  4. News: Marco . Chown . Avis . Favaro . Elizabeth . St. Philip . Canadian medical journals hijacked for junk science . . 29 September 2016 . 29 September 2016.
  5. News: Offshore firm accused of publishing junk science takes over Canadian journals . . Sonja . Puzic . 30 September 2016 . 29 September 2016.
  6. Web site: The OMICS Publishing Group's Empire is Expanding . Beall . Jeffrey . Scholarly OA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151022141644/http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/12/18/the-omics-publishing-groups-empire-is-expanding/ . 2015-10-22 .
  7. Stratford . Michael . 'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish . The Chronicle of Higher Education . Chronicle.com . 2012-03-04 . 2012-10-02.
  8. The Charleston Advisor . Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers . Beall . Jeffrey . 2010-07-01 . 12 . 50 . 10.5260/chara.12.1.50 .
  9. Butler . Declan . Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing . Nature . March 2013 . 495 . 7442 . 433–435 . 10.1038/495433a. 23538810 . 2013Natur.495..433B . 4425229 . free .
  10. Jocelyn Kaiser, "ScienceInsider: U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement", Science, 09 May 2013
  11. http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/on-the-net-a-scam-of-a-most-scholarly-kind/article3939161.ece "On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind"
  12. Web site: Pulsus Acquires openaccessjournals.com: The Peer Reviewed Open Access Journals Publisher. PRWeb. 7 May 2019.

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