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OMICS Publishing Group is a peer reviewed Open Access publisher that enables the dissemination of research articles to the global scientific community. Thus, all articles published under Open Access can be accessed by anyone. OMICS publishes 250 journals and organizes 60 conferences worldwide every year. It has offices in Los Angeles (United States), Hyderabad (India), and Henderson (Nevada, United States). which also has another branch, OMICS Group Conferences, which organizes scientific conferences.

Some observers have described the publisher as "predatory", insofar as authors who have submitted papers have been sent invoices after their manuscripts were accepted for publication despite the lack of a robust peer-review process, leading critics to assert that the main purpose of the publisher is commercial rather than academic.

Overview

Since its inception in the year 2007 OMICS has published over 10,000 Open-Access articles. OMICS claims to have over 2 million readers. The articles published by OMICS Publishing Group are under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided if it is the original work and source is appropriately cited.

Vision: To make Healthcare and Scientific Information Open-Access.

Mission: Pioneering excellence in Open-Access.

Motto: Accelerating scientific discovery.

Founding Editors

• Dr. Srinu Babu Gedela
• Prof. Richard Simpson
• Dr. Richard D Smith
• Prof. Fuchu He
• Prof. Cathy H. Wu
• Prof. Helmut E. Meyer
• Dr. Sudhir Srivastava
• Prof. Kazuyuki Nakamura
• Prof. Mark S. Baker
• Dr. Judit Nagy
• Dr. Terence C.W. Poon

Publication Concept

Open-access journal are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself."Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). OMICS Group Inc. strongly supports Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing and believes in quality control of scientific publications through rigorous peer-review process. Most funding decisions in science and the academic advancement of scientists are based on peer-reviewed publications by reviewers with high reviewer credits. It takes 40 days (average) for a manuscript to get accepted. Reliable discount scheme is offered to the privileged authors and members. Author Scientific Credits are offered for submitted (if accepted) manuscripts.

Business Model

Journals

OMICS Group publishes 250 Open-access journal with quality peer-reviewed articles. OMICS provides waivers for authors who do not have sufficient funds. For quality and quick review process OMICS group uses Editorial Manager wherein the authors can submit manuscripts online and track the state of their manuscript. The Editorial board of each journal consists of eminent personalities from scientific field. OMICS conducts Editorial board meet annually. OMICS Publishing Group is ranked 9th in the world by Index Copernicus.

Conferences

OMICS Group Inc organizes scientific conferences all over the globe on various topics with eminent personalities in the scientific field attending it leading to the expansion of the group into rising scientific areas.

Indexing

OMICS Inc. is the member of/publishing partner of/source content provider to:

Path-Breaking Articles

• Anthrax - Dudley JP (2010). "Review and Analysis of Reported Anthrax-Related Military Mail Security Incidents in Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area During March 2005". J Bioterr Biodef. 1: 101. doi:10.4172/2157-2526.1000101.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

• Michael Jackson - Levy RJ (2011). "The Michael Jackson Autopsy: Insights Provided by a Forensic Anesthesiologist". J Forensic Res. 2: 138. doi:10.4172/2157-7145.1000138.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

• Epitope mapping - R. F. El-Kased, C. Koy, P. Lorenz, H. Montgomery, K. Tanaka, H.-J. Thiesen and M. O. Glocker (2011). "A Novel Mass Spectrometric Epitope Mapping Approach without Immobilization of the Antibody". J Proteomics Bioinform. 4: 001–009. doi:10.4172/jpb.1000160.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

Other Services

For financial sustainability and welfare of scientific community OMICS Group has other new initiative like Open-Access ebooks, online biosafety protocols , clinical and experts database, E-BABE and SciTechnol.

References

1. "OMICS Publishing Group :: Contact". Omicsonline.org. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
2. "Scientific Conferences, International Conferences 2012-2013 | OMICS Group". Omicsonline.org. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
3. Stratford, Michael (2012-03-04). "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education". Chronicle.com. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
4. "The Charleston Advisor Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers". Charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com. 2010-07-01. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
5. "Open-Access articles".
6. "e-prints".
7. "Editorial Manager".
8. "Index Copernicus".

External links

• Official website

• Academic publishing companies
• Companies based in Hyderabad, India