Jacobs Publishers

Short description: Academic publisher

Jacobs Publishers is a publisher of various international journals based in Hyderabad, India. Jacobs Publishers has been included on Beall's List of predatory open-access publishers[1] and has faced other criticisms of its publishing practices.[2][3]

## Contents

* 1 Activities
* 2 Criticism
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Activities

Jacobs Publishers LLC was created in 2013.[4] The company uses an Open Access model of publishing, which charges the authors. Articles are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers. The company claims that articles are peer reviewed before publication.[5]

In 2018 the company published about 75 journals in the fields of clinical and medical science, life sciences, chemistry, engineering, and pharmacy.[6]

## Criticism

Jacobs Publishers was listed on Beall's List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.[1] The company has been criticized for sending out email spam to scientists, calling out for papers,[2][3][7][8][9][10] and for having provided infrastructure for other publishers who send out email spam.[11] It has further been criticized for giving incoherent advice to journal authors, for unqualified journal editors, and that their editors are also active for predatory publishers like OMICS Publishing Group.[9]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beall's List of Predatory Publishers. Exploring the Evidence Base (weblog), 23 January 2017. Accessed 2 October 2018
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moher, David; Srivastava, Anubhav (4 August 2015). "You are invited to submit…". BMC Medicine 13 (1): 180. doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0423-3. PMID 26239633.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Petrişor, Alexandru-Ionuţ (2016). "Evolving strategies of the predatory journals". Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 21 (1): 1–17. doi:10.22452/mjlis.vol21no1.1.
4. ↑ corporationstx.com Accessed 2 October 2018
5. ↑ About us. Jacobs Publishers. Accessed 2 October 2019
6. ↑ Journals list. Jacobs Publishers, accessed 2 October 2018
7. ↑ Grey, Andrew; Bolland, Mark J; Dalbeth, Nicola; Gamble, Greg; Sadler, Lynn (14 December 2016). "We read spam a lot: prospective cohort study of unsolicited and unwanted academic invitations". BMJ 355. doi:10.1136/bmj.i5383. PMID 27974354.
8. ↑ List of spamming journals. Homepage of Takeshi Igawa, PhD. Accessed 2 October 2018
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Jacobs Publishers. Flaky Academic Journals (weblog), January 1, 2017. Accessed 2 October 2018
10. ↑ Jacobs Journal of Experimental Dermatology. Scam or Spam? Dodgy journals & conferences (weblog). Accessed 2 October 2018
11. ↑ ISaMed Journals. scientificspam.net (weblog), 27 August 2017. Accessed 2 October 2018

## External links

* Official website

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