Future Medicine

Future Medicine Ltd
Industry Academic publishing
Headquarters Unitec House, 2 Albert Place, London, N3 1QB, UK
Website www.futuremedicine.com

Future Medicine is a privately owned company based in London, United Kingdom. It was 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, that 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 controversially sold several of its journals to OMICS Publishing Group, who moved them to Pulsus Group, a company that they recently acquired.[4][5] OMICS is widely regarded as predatory.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Future Science Group". EurekAlert!. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Open Access Authors Option". future-science-group.com. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  3. ↑ "Accelerated publication option". futuremedicine.com. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  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.
  7. ↑ Stratford, Michael (2012-03-04). "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish". Chronicle.com. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
  8. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2010-07-01). "Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers". The Charleston Advisor. Charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
  9. ↑ Declan Butler, "Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing", Nature, 27 March 2013
  10. ↑ Jocelyn Kaiser, "ScienceInsider: U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement", Science, 09 May 2013
  11. ↑ "On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind" The Hindu, 26 September 2012.

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