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OMICS Publishing Group

Parent company	OMICS Group Inc.
Status	Active
Founded	2007 (2007)
Country of origin	United States
Distribution	Worldwide
Publication types	Journals
Nonfiction topics	Science
Official website	www.omicsonline.org

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 scientific conferences worldwide every year. It has offices in Los Angeles (United States), Hyderabad (India), and Henderson (Nevada, United States).

Overview

Since its inception in 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.

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

Journals

OMICS Group publishes 250 Open-Access journals with 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. At least two independent reviewers approval followed by editor approval is required for acceptance of any citable 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. Until August 2012 they have conducted over 60 conferences.

Indexing

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

OMICS Group organized a third world congress on biotechnology.

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 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.

References

1. "Open Access".
2. "Open-Access articles".
3. "Creative Commons Attribution License".
4. "Editorial Manager".
5. "Editorial Manager tracking system".
6. "Index Copernicus".
7. "Scientific Conferences".
9. OMICS List of Journals
10. Michael Stratford, "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish", Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 March 2012
11. Jeffrey Beall, "Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers", The Charleston Advisor, 12:1, 2010

External links

• Official website

• Misplaced Pages neutral point of view disputes from September 2012
• Academic publishing companies
• Companies based in Hyderabad, India