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OMICS Publishing Group is a publisher of approximately 200 open access journals in a number of academic fields. It is based in Los Angeles, USA, Hyderabad, India and Henderson, Nevada.
The company's publishing model requires authors to pay publication fees of several hundred (and in some cases thousands of) US dollars. The list of journals includes titles such as Biochemistry and Analytical Biochemistry, Women's Health, and Organ Biology.
Some observers describe 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.
References
- OMICS List of Journals
- Michael Stratford, "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish", Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 March 2012
- Michael Beall, "Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers", The Charleston Advisor, 12:1, 2010