Future Medicine

Future Medicine Ltd
IndustryAcademic publishing
HeadquartersUnitec House, 2 Albert Place, London, N3 1QB, UK
Websitewww.futuremedicine.com

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

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Future Science Group". EurekAlert!. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Open Access Authors Option". future-science-group.com. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Accelerated publication option". futuremedicine.com. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  4. ^ Chown, Marco; Favaro, Avis; St. Philip, Elizabeth (29 September 2016). "Canadian medical journals hijacked for junk science". Toronto Star. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  5. ^ Puzic, Sonja (29 September 2016). "Offshore firm accused of publishing junk science takes over Canadian journals". CTV News. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  6. ^ Beall, Jeffrey. "The OMICS Publishing Group's Empire is Expanding". Scholarly OA. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015.
  7. ^ Stratford, Michael (4 March 2012). "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle.com. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  8. ^ Beall, Jeffrey (1 July 2010). "Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers" (PDF). The Charleston Advisor. 12: 50. doi:10.5260/chara.12.1.50.
  9. ^ Butler, Declan (March 2013). "Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing". Nature. 495 (7442): 433–435. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..433B. doi:10.1038/495433a. PMID 23538810. S2CID 4425229.
  10. ^ Jocelyn Kaiser, "ScienceInsider: U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement" Archived 2013-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, Science, 09 May 2013
  11. ^ "On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind" The Hindu, 26 September 2012.
  12. ^ "Pulsus Acquires openaccessjournals.com: The Peer Reviewed Open Access Journals Publisher". PRWeb. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
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