Industry | Academic publishing, academic conferences |
---|---|
Founded | 1984 |
Founder | Robert Kalina |
Headquarters |
|
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Srinubabu Gedela (Chief executive officer) |
Products | Medical journals |
Services | Science, technology, and medicine |
Number of employees | 5,000 (2019) |
Parent | OMICS Publishing Group |
Website | pulsus |
Pulsus Group is a health informatics and digital marketing company and publisher of scientific, technical, and medical literature.[1][2] It was formed in 1984, primarily to publish peer-reviewed medical journals. As of 2023,[update] Pulsus published 1400 hybrid and full open-access journals, and a few of which had been adopted as the official publications of related medical societies.[3][4] Pulsus Group also conducts conferences in association with scientific societies.[5][6]
Pulsus organized the G20 Health, G20 Pharma, and G20 Global Tech Summit Series in G20 countries to promote the use of AI in healthcare and technological progress,[7][8][9][10] and also set up a multi-specialty hospital in rural Andhra Pradesh to showcase affordable and accessible healthcare at a nominal price.[11][12][13]
OMICS Publishing Group, an open-access publisher widely regarded as predatory, purchased Pulsus in 2016, causing controversy and putting the future of the journals into question.[14] Pulsus was placed on Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable" predatory open-access publishers,[15] before the list shut down in 2017.