Science Publishing Group

Science Publishing Group (SPG) is an open-access publisher of academic journals and books established in 2012.[1] It has an address in New York City[2] but is actually based in Pakistan.[3] The company has been criticized for predatory publishing practices.[4][5][6] As of 2019, it publishes 430 journals in various fields.[7]

'Bioprocess Engineering' redirects here. Not to be confused with 'Bioprocess Engineering' (ISSN 0178-515X), now known as 'Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering' (ISSN 1615-7591) published by Springer.
'Education Journal' redirects here. Not to be confused with several other publications of the same name.
'Humanities and Social Sciences' redirects here. Not to be confused with 'Humanities and Social Sciences. Latvia' (ISSN 1022-4483) published by the University of Latvia.
'Industrial Engineering (journal)' redirects here. Not to be confused with 'Industrial Engineering' (ISSN 1866-2269) published by Marcel Dekker.
'International Journal of Data Science and Analysis' redirects here. Not to be confused with 'International Journal of Data Science and Analytics' (ISSN 2364-415X) published by Springer.

SPG uses an Gold open-access model of publishing which charges the authors. The company claims that articles are peer reviewed by scientific experts before publication.[8]

Criticism of publishing practices

The company has been criticized for predatory open-access publishing.[4][5][6] In an experiment, university professor Fiona McQuarrie submitted an article to International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science from Science Publishing Group, using pseudonyms "Maggie Simpson" and "Edna Krabappel" (characters from the cartoon series The Simpsons). Although the article had been generated by the SCIgen computer program and was nonsense, it was accepted for publication.[9] Librarian Jeffrey Beall, creator of a list of predatory open-access publishers, cites a nonsensical article in American Journal of Applied Mathematics, containing an alleged proof of Buddhist karma.[1]

gollark: Monads are in fact unfathomable to mortals.
gollark: Oh, or rewrite it in Haskell and use as many monads as possible.
gollark: Well, you could make it more annoying by having your code execute entirely out of order.
gollark: This is not really, as far as I know, practical for machine-code-y systems, because they don't need to go through a function call or whatever to load new code for execution.
gollark: What I had to do one time to reverse some obfuscated code on potatOS was hook `load` to log newly loaded code to a file, it's called "Protocol Epsilon debug mode" and is still in there.

References
  1. Beall, Jeffrey (June 1, 2018). "Predatory journals exploit structural weaknesses in scholarly publishing". 4Open. 1 (1). "Life Sciences – Medicine" section, article 1. doi:10.1051/fopen/2018001. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  2. "Contact Us". SciencePublishingGroup.com. 2019. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
  3. Beall, Jeffrey (2018). "Scientific soundness and the problem of predatory journals". In Kaufman, A. B.; Kaufman, J. C. (eds.). Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science. pp. 183–300. ISBN 9780262037426.
  4. "Science Publishing Group (SciencePG)". Flaky Academic Journals. January 28, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2018 – via BlogSpot.
  5. "Science Publishing Group: A Complete Scam". Emerald City Journal. May 24, 2016.
  6. Woit, Peter (March 7, 2013). "American Journal of Modern Physics". Not Even Wrong. Department of Mathematics, Columbia University. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  7. "List of Journals". SciencePublishingGroup.com. 2019. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  8. "Open Access is the Future of Academic Publishing". Science Publishing Group. March 30, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2018 – via Finanzen.at. Press release.
  9. "Predatory Journals: An Experiment". All About Work. January 26, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
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