Scientific Research Publishing

Short description: Academic publisher

Scientific Research Publishing

Status| Active
Founded| 2007 (2007)
Founder| Huaibei Zhou
Headquarters location| Wuhan, China
Distribution| Worldwide
Key people| Huaibei Zhou
Publication types| Academic journals and books
Nonfiction topics| Life sciences, economics, chemistry, computer science, environmental sciences, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, social sciences
Owner(s)| Wuhan Erwan Culture Communication Co., Ltd. Wuhan Grand Technology Service Co., Ltd.
No. of employees| About 160[citation needed]
Official website| www.scirp.org

Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is a predatory[1][2][3] academic publisher of open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies that are considered to be of questionable quality.[4][5][6] As of December 2014[update], it offered 244 English-language open-access journals in the areas of science, technology, business, economy, and medicine.[7]

The company has been accused of using email spam to solicit papers for submission.[8] Although it has an address in southern California, according to Jeffrey Beall it is a Chinese operation.[8] In 2014 there was a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, Advances in Anthropology, with the outgoing editor-in-chief saying of the publisher "For them it was only about making money. We were simply their 'front'."[9]

## Contents

* 1 Open access type
* 2 Controversies
* 2.1 Academic Integrity
* 3 Potential Owner
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Open access type

According to its website, SCIRP publishes fee-based open-access journals (Gold OA).[citation needed] Payments are incurred per article published. Authors are permitted to archive their work (Green OA). Preprint, postprint, and the publisher's PDF version may be used.[10] According to the society's website, journals published are fully open access, with reuse rights based on CC BY or CC BY-NC.[citation needed]

## Controversies

### Academic Integrity

SCIRP generated controversy in 2010 when it was found that its journals duplicated papers which had already been published elsewhere, without notification of or permission from the original author and of the copyright holder.[11] Several of these publications have subsequently been retracted.[5] Some of the journals had listed academics on their editorial boards without their permission or even knowledge, sometimes in fields very different from their own.[12] In 2012, one of its journals, Advances in Pure Mathematics, accepted a paper written by a parody generator; the paper was not published, but only due to its author's unwillingness to pay the publication fee.[13] The company has also been noted for the many unsolicited bulk emails it sends to academics about its journals.[8][12]

In 2013, the Open Journal of Pediatrics, a SCIRP journal, published a study which concluded that the number of babies born with thyroid problems in the western United States increased by 16 percent in 2011 compared to 2010, after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The study has been criticized for not taking into account the fact that 2010 was a year with an unusually low number of births with thyroid problems. SCIRP refused to print a letter criticizing the study, but offered to publish it as an article for a charge.[6]

The company has been included in a list of questionable open access publishers,[14][15] according to Jeffrey Beall's criteria.[16] Beall states that "This publisher exists for two reasons. First, it exists to exploit the author-pays Open Access model to generate revenue, and second, it serves as an easy place for foreign (chiefly Chinese) authors to publish overseas and increase their academic status." He acknowledges that its fees are relatively low, describing this as "a strategy that increases article submissions," and that "it has attracted some quality article submissions. Nevertheless, it is really a vanity press."[8]

Further controversy was generated by a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, Advances in Anthropology, in 2014. According to the former editor-in-chief, Fatimah Jackson, it was motivated by failures to include the editorial board in the journal's review process, and by "consistent and flagrant unethical breaches by the editorial staff in China", for whom publishing the journal "was only about making money." According to Beall, this was the first mass resignation from an open-access journal.[4]

In 2021 Cabells' Predatory Reports described SCIRP as a "well-known predatory publisher".[2] In the Norwegian Scientific Index the publisher and all of its journals have a rating of 0 (non-academic).[17] An academic study published in 2022 stated that SCIRP was "widely known to host ‘fake journals'".[3]

## Potential Owner

www.scirp.org is operated by Wuhan Erwan Culture Communication Co., Ltd.[18] [19] Wuhan Erwan Culture Communication Co., Ltd is primarily owned by Wuhan Grand Technology Service Co., Ltd.[18]Engineering Information Institute, a member or source content provider of SCIRP, is also owned by Wuhan Erwan Culture Communication Co., Ltd. [18][20]

## See also

* Academic publishing in China
* Predatory open-access publishing
* Predatory conference
* Peer review
* Directory of Open Access Journals

## References

1. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2017-01-03). "Beall's List of Predatory Publishers 2017". https://scholarlyoa.com/.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Linacre, Simon (2021-07-07). "The Source / No signs of slowing" (in en-US). https://blog.cabells.com/2021/07/07/no-signs-of-slowing/. "The Open Journal of Epidemiology is one of 99 journals that Cabells listed in its Predatory Reports database last month, and is published by a well-known predatory publisher known as SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing) based in China."
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nishikawa-Pacher, Andreas; Heck, Tamara; Schoch, Kerstin (2022-10-04). "Open Editors: A dataset of scholarly journals’ editorial board positions" (in en). Research Evaluation. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvac037. ISSN 0958-2029. https://academic.oup.com/rev/advance-article/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvac037/6747989. ""... five publishers known to be predatory were likewise included in the sample, namely ... Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) .... SCIRP and OMICS are widely known to host ‘fake journals’"".
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Beall, Jeffrey (2014-10-02). "An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal". http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/10/02/an-editorial-board-mass-resignation-from-an-open-access-journal/.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Oransky, Ivan (2012-05-25). "Three more retractions for Vietnamese physicists who plagiarized a plagiarized paper". http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/category/by-publisher/scientific-research-publishing/.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Spears: 'Universe is Like Space Ship' — and the problem with 'predatory' science journals". May 16, 2015. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/spears-universe-is-like-space-ship-and-the-problem-with-predatory-science-journals.
7. ↑ Jeffrey Beall (2014-12-16). "The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science". http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/12/16/the-chinese-publisher-scirp-scientific-research-publishing-a-publishing-empire-built-on-junk-science.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Beall, Jeffrey (April 2012). "Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers". The Charleston Advisor 13 (4): 5–10. doi:10.5260/chara.13.4.5. http://eprints.rclis.org/17051/1/TCA review April 2012 five.pdf.
9. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2014-10-02). "An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal". http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/10/02/an-editorial-board-mass-resignation-from-an-open-access-journal/.
10. ↑ "Scientific Research Publishing". SHERPA. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/pub/1018/.
11. ↑ Abrahams, Marc (2009-12-22). "Strange academic journals: Scam?". http://www.improbable.com/2009/12/22/strangest-academic-journals/.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Sanderson, Katharine (2010). "Two new journals copy the old". Nature 463 (7278): 148. doi:10.1038/463148a. PMID 20075892.
13. ↑ Doctorow, Cory (October 19, 2012). "Math journal accepts computer-generated nonsense paper". http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/math-journal-accepts-computer.html.
14. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2014). "List of Predatory Publishers 2014". http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/.
15. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2014). "Beall's list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers". http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/.
16. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (2009-12-01). "Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition)". http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open-access-publishers-2nd-edition.
17. ↑ "Scientific Research Publishing". https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalForlagInfo.action?id=22903&bibsys=false.
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "武汉尔湾文化传播有限公司 - 企查查". https://m.qcc.com/firm/3d9a27b6ed6f55ad8792094627373aba.html?utm_source=sogoulxkp.
19. ↑ SCIRP小编. "Materials Sciences and Applications (MSA) 特刊征稿 | 生物医用材料研究". http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=Mzk0NTI0MzA5NQ==&mid=2247510456&idx=2&sn=aa2011e84c890d9b7b473e7129037493&chksm=c31abf00f46d3616ff5cf38988505a4239e951c4163d2c1a6ecbc862c05e856e6b991e0a2415#rd.
20. ↑ "Engineering Information Institute". http://www.engii.org/.

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