Bentham Science Publishers
academic publishing company that publishes scientific, technical, and medical journals and e-books
Bentham Science Publishers is a company that publishes academic journals and scholarly publications in the scientific, technical, and medical fields, as well as e-books in the same areas. It publishes over 120 subscription-based academic journals and around forty open access journals.
As of 2023, a total of 66 different Bentham Science journals have received JCR impact factors, and they are a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. Bentham Open, its open access division, has received criticism for questionable peer-review practices as well as invitation spam. Bentham Open was listed as a "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open access publisher" in Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory publishers, before the list went defunct.
History
Bentham Science Publishers was incorporated in 1994 by Atta-ur-Rahman and his friend Matthew Honan as a private business entity at the Sharjah Airport International Free Trade Zone in the United Arab Emirates. An investigative profile from Sujag notes the publisher had, in reality, however, operated out of Pakistan — for the first six years, from the premises of International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences and then, from private residential blocks at Karachi — under the banner of a tax-exempt proxy firm, owned by Rahman's sons.
As of 2022, the publisher publishes more than 120 subscription-based journals, indexed in Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, MEDLINE, EMBASE, etc. Bentham Open Access published more than 150 peer-reviewed, free-to-view online journals under Bentham Open.
Criticism of Bentham Open
The Bentham Open journals claim to employ peer review, although there have been disputes with this claim.
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