Future Medicine

Future Medicine is a privately owned company based in London, England, United Kingdom. It is part of Future Science Publishing Group, primarily to publish peer-reviewed medical journals. Future Medicine publishes hybrid and full open access journals.[1]

Future Medicine Ltd
IndustryAcademic publishing
Founded2001 
HeadquartersUnitec House, 2 Albert Place, London, N3 1QB, UK
Websitewww.futuremedicine.com

Business model

Future Medicine publishes open access or subscription journals, which are owned by the respective societies they serve. The open access journals require authors to pay an article processing charge.[2] The company also provides an accelerated publication option, with speedy processing and publication of accepted articles within 6 weeks of submission.[3]

Journals

In 2016, the company sold several of its journals to OMICS Publishing Group, who moved them to Pulsus Group, a company they recently acquired.[4][5] OMICS is widely regarded as predatory publisher.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

The journals sold were[12]

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References
  1. "Future Science Group". EurekAlert!. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  2. "Open Access Authors Option". future-science-group.com. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  3. "Accelerated publication option". futuremedicine.com. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  4. Chown, Marco; Favaro, Avis; St. Philip, Elizabeth (29 September 2016). "Canadian medical journals hijacked for junk science". Toronto Star. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  5. Puzic, Sonja (29 September 2016). "Offshore firm accused of publishing junk science takes over Canadian journals". CTV News. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  6. Beall, Jeffrey. "The OMICS Publishing Group's Empire is Expanding". Scholarly OA. Archived from the original on 2015-10-22.
  7. Stratford, Michael (2012-03-04). "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle.com. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
  8. Beall, Jeffrey (2010-07-01). "Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers". The Charleston Advisor. Charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com. 12: 50. doi:10.5260/chara.12.1.50.
  9. Declan Butler, "Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing", Nature, 27 March 2013
  10. Jocelyn Kaiser, "ScienceInsider: U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement" Archived 2013-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, Science, 09 May 2013
  11. "On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind" The Hindu, 26 September 2012.
  12. "Pulsus Acquires openaccessjournals.com: The Peer Reviewed Open Access Journals Publisher". PRWeb. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
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