Scientific Research Publishing

Scientific Research Publishing
StatusActive
Founded2007 (2007)
FounderHuaibei Zhou [zh]
Headquarters locationWuhan, China
DistributionWorldwide
Key peopleHuaibei Zhou
Publication typesAcademic journals and books
Nonfiction topicsLife 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 employeesAbout 160[citation needed]
Official websitewww.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, 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]

  1. ^ Beall, Jeffrey (2017-01-03). "Beall's List of Predatory Publishers 2017". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2023-03-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Linacre, Simon (2021-07-07). "The Source / No signs of slowing". Cabells Predatory Reports. Archived from the original on 2022-01-08. Retrieved 2021-12-29. 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. ^ Nishikawa-Pacher, Andreas; Heck, Tamara; Schoch, Kerstin (2022-10-04). "Open Editors: A dataset of scholarly journals' editorial board positions". Research Evaluation. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvac037. ISSN 0958-2029. ... 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. ^ Cite error: The named reference beall1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference RW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference OC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Jeffrey Beall (2014-12-16). "The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science". Archived from the original on 2014-12-27. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
  8. ^ a b Beall, Jeffrey (April 2012). "Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers" (PDF). The Charleston Advisor. 13 (4): 5–10. doi:10.5260/chara.13.4.5.
  9. ^ Beall, Jeffrey (2014-10-02). "An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2015-04-11. Retrieved 2015-09-04.