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| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2002 |
| Country of origin | The Netherlands |
| Headquarters location | Heerlen |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Seyyed Mohammad Miri (CEO) |
| Publication types | Open access scientific journals |
| No. of employees | 30 (in 2019)[1] |
| Official website | brieflands |
Kowsar - now Brieflands - is an STM publishing company which was founded in 2002 by S.M. Miri and Seyed-Moayed Alavian. Kowsar journals have been peer reviewed and are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License Non Commercial 4.0.[2] The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.[3]
The publisher has been included in several studies of predatory journals,[4][5] and was included on Beall's List prior to its shutdown in 2017.[6] In 2018, PubMed Central conducted a re-evaluation of 16 Kowsar journals indexed in the database; 14 were found to "no longer satisfy PMC's Scientific Quality Standard" and were accordingly delisted.[7] Some of its journals, like Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, incorrectly claimed to be included in the Directory of Open Access Journals.[8] The issue has been resolved in December 2019.[9]
In 2022, the company - formerly known as KowsarMedical Publishing - became Brieflands.
- ^ "Kowsar Publishing". www.kowsarpub.com. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ "Open Access Statement & Copyright Policy". 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ "COPE: KOWSAR, 56 Member Journals". Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ Manca, Andrea; Martinez, Gianluca; Cugusi, Lucia; Dragone, Daniele; Dvir, Zeevi; Deriu, Franca (June 2017). "The surge of predatory open-access in neurosciences and neurology". Neuroscience. 353: 166–173. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.04.014. PMID 28433651. S2CID 3917134.
- ^ Gasparyan, Armen Yuri; Nurmashev, Bekaidar; Voronov, Alexander A.; Gerasimov, Alexey N.; Koroleva, Anna M.; Kitas, George D. (2016). "The Pressure to Publish More and the Scope of Predatory Publishing Activities". Journal of Korean Medical Science. 31 (12): 1874–1878. doi:10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1874. PMC 5102848. PMID 27822923.
- ^ "Beall's List of Predatory Journals and Publishers". Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ McCook, Alison (2 April 2018). "In unusual move, gov't database delists 14 journals from one publisher". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ "Some journals say they are indexed in DOAJ but they are not". DOAJ. 23 January 2019. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ "Some journals say they are indexed in DOAJ but they are not". DOAJ. Retrieved 11 December 2019.