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Posted on April 3, 2019April 4, 2019

Hyderabad-based OMICS fined $50 million for ‘unfair, deceptive business practices’

A court in the U.S. has slapped a $50 million fine on Hyderabad-based OMICS International, which publishes over 700 questionable scientific journals, many of which appear predatory, for “unfair and…

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Posted on March 14, 2018March 15, 2018

OMICS to translate all Open Access journal papers to Indian languages

The Hyderabad-based “predatory journal” publisher OMICS International’s venture to translate papers to a few Indian languages will not be restricted to OMICS and Pulsus Group of journals it owns. Plan…

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Posted on February 23, 2018February 24, 2018

Indian scientific community should act now to stop the journal paper translation centres

Starting centres employing thousands to translate into Indian languages the papers published in “predatory” journals is singularly aimed at gaining legitimacy for a fraudulent practice. Keeping the predatory journal industry in…

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Posted on February 22, 2018March 14, 2018

Hyderabad-based OMICS group to translate their journal papers to Indian languages

Predatory journal publishing in India is gaining more ground, legitimacy, and credibility. The CEO of OMICS Group, a “potential, possible, or probable” predatory journal publisher, has signed an MoU with the…

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Posted on November 25, 2017November 27, 2017

Injunction against Hyderabad’s OMICS group to stop ‘deceptive practices’

In a preliminary injunction, a U.S. federal court has ordered Hyderabad-based OMICS to remove all misleading claims from its websites. This includes removing the names of eminent scientists who never…

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Posted on June 13, 2017June 14, 2017

At last, Jeffrey Beall reveals the reasons for shutting down his blog on predatory journals

  Unlike what most people had guessed, it was not a lawsuit from any of the predatory journal publishers that forced Jeffrey Beall, Librarian at the University of Colorado Denver…

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Posted on August 28, 2016November 25, 2017

OMICS in the dock for duping researchers

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged OMICS Group Inc, a Nevada corporation with Hyderabad, India, as its principal place of business, the publisher of “hundreds of purported online academic…

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