Kowsar Publishing
Dutch publishing company
Kowsar - now Brieflands - is an STM publishing company which was founded in 2002 by Seyyed Mohammad 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. The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Brieflands is an official member of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), supporting accurate author identification and metadata integrity through persistent digital identifiers. It preserves 69 of its e-journals in Portico, a trusted digital archiving service, ensuring long-term accessibility and content stability. As a member of the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Brieflands also facilitates collective copyright licensing to support the legal and ethical reuse of its published materials. Furthermore, several Brieflands journals are indexed in major international databases such as Web of Science (SCIE and ESCI), Scopus, and PubMed Central, including Hepatitis Monthly, Innovative Journal of Pediatrics, and the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, reflecting its adherence to rigorous academic publishing standards.
The publisher has been referenced in broader academic discussions about journal quality and was previously listed on Beall’s List, which was discontinued in 2017 due to concerns over insufficient evidence and a lack of transparency in its evaluation criteria. Importantly, the two cited studies did not specifically assess this publisher, but rather analyzed samples of journals that had appeared on Beall’s List. Furthermore, the author of the second study has been noted to have had a conflict of interest involving this publisher, which may have influenced the objectivity of the findings.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85774965. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2017.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kowsar Publishing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.