OMICS Publishing Group
discredited academic publishing company
OMICS Publishing Group is a predatory publisher of open access academic journals. It started publishing its first journal in 2008. By 2015, it claimed over 700 journals, although about half of them were defunct. Its subsidiaries and brands include Allied Academies, Andrew John Publishing Inc., Ashdin Publishing, Conference Series LLC LTD, EuroSciCon LTD, Hilaris Publishing, Insight Medical Publishing (iMedPub) LTD, International Online Medical Council (IOMC), International Research Journals, IT Medical Team, Longdom Publishing SL, Open Access Journals, Meetings International, Prime Scholars, Pulsus Group, Research & Reviews, Scholars Central, SciTechnol, Trade Science Inc, Life Science Events and Walsh Medical Media.
OMICS has come under attack by numerous academics and the United States government over the validity of the peer review by OMICS journals, the appropriateness of its fees and marketing, and the apparent advertising of the names of scientists as journal editors or conference speakers without their knowledge or permission. The U.S. National Institutes of Health sent a cease-and-desist letter to OMICS in 2013, demanding it to discontinue with false claims of affiliation with U.S. government entities or employees. In August 2016, OMICS became the first academic publisher to be sued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for deceptive practices; nearly three years later, the FTC was awarded a summary judgement of over US$50 million.
OMICS has responded to criticisms by avowing a commitment to open access publishing, claiming that detractors are traditional subscription-based publishers who feel threatened by their open-access publishing model. It responded to the FTC suit by maintaining that their practices were legal and claiming that corporate interests were driving the suit. It has also threatened a prominent critic, Jeffrey Beall, with a $1 billion lawsuit for defamation.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7072722. VIAF identifies the subject as 293226128. The Library of Congress control number is no2012152373. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008, 2015, 2013 and 2016.
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