American Journal of Biomedical Science and Research

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The journal's publisher Biomedgrid LLC was first registered in California in 2018 by Sasidhar Vontethina and Sushma Manchikanti. [3] The journal has been publishing online articles since January 2019. It uses an open-access model of publishing which charges the authors. The company claims that articles are peer reviewed. [4]

The journal has no editor-in-chief. [5] Time between submission of an article and its publication after the process of peer review, commenting, revision and editing frequently does not extend beyond 15 days, and might even require only 6 days. [6] [7] Such times are very short, compared with those required for a thorough peer review process in recognized academic journals. [8]

The journal reports an "ISI impact factor". [9] This impact factor is not from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) or its successor Clarivate, but from a company named International Scientific Indexing. [10] [11] That company has been listed as potentially misleading on Beall's list of potential predatory open-access journals and publishers. [12]

Criticism

The journal was listed in the updated Beall's List of potential predatory open-access journals. [1] It has been criticized for sending out email spam to scientists, calling out for papers for the journal. [6] The ISI impact factor reported by the journal was criticized as misleading, since it does not refer to the recognized Web of Science ISI index, but to the product of a company which does not reveal how the alleged impact factor is actually calculated. [13]

In March 2020, the journal published the fake research paper "Cyllage City COVID-19 outbreak linked to Zubat consumption". The paper blamed a fictional creature for an outbreak of Covid-19 in a fictional city, cited fictional references (including one from author Bruce Wayne in a made-up journal named "Gotham Forensics Quarterly" on using bats to fight crime), and was cowritten by fictional authors such as Pokémon’s Nurse Joy and House, MD. [14] The author was a scientist from National Taiwan University, who acted under a pseudonym. [2] Four days after submission the paper was accepted for publication. Since the line in the article “a journal publishing this paper does not practice peer review and must therefore be predatory” was not objected to, the submitting author concluded that the paper had not been reviewed at all. [15] The paper was later removed as the author did not pay the publication fees. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Potential predatory scholarly open-access journals. Accessed July 4, 2022
  2. 1 2 3 Opinion: Using Pokémon to Detect Scientific Misinformation. The Scientist , November 1, 2020. Accessed July 4, 2022
  3. ↑ "BIOMEDGRID LLC :: California (US) :: OpenCorporates". Archived from the original on 2022-06-27.
  4. ↑ PEER REVIEW_4 (PDF)
  5. ↑ Editorial Committee. Biomedgrid, archived December 4, 2020; Editorial Committee. Biomedgrid, archived June 18, 2022
  6. 1 2 Where in the World is the American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research? Flaky Academic Journals (weblog), January 27, 2022. Accessed July 4, 2022
  7. ↑ Am J Biomed Sci & Res. 2022 - 16(5) AJBSR.MS.ID.002263; Am J Biomed Sci & Res. 2022 - 16(4) AJBSR.MS.ID.002257; Am J Biomed Sci & Res. 2022 - 16(4) AJBSR.MS.ID.002260; J Biomed Sci & Res. 2022 - 16(5) AJBSR.MS.ID.002261; [https://biomedgrid.com/pdf/AJBSR.MS.ID.002262.pdf J Biomed Sci & Res. 2022 - 16(5) AJBSR.MS.ID.002262
  8. ↑ Janine Huisman, Jeroen Smits: Duration and quality of the peer review process: the author’s perspective. Scientometrics, volume 113, pages 633–650 (2017)
  9. ↑ Indexing. biomedgrid.com, accessed November 29, 2022
  10. ↑ American Journal of Biomedical Science AND Research. International Scientific Indexing, accessed November 29, 2022
  11. ↑ Fraudulent and false metric indexes. A scam for publishers and authors. revistacomunicar (weblog), November 17, 2016, accessed November 29, 2022
  12. ↑ Misleading Metrics. Beall's list of potential predatory open-access journals and publishers, accessed November 29, 2022
  13. ↑ When is ISI not ISI? Predatory Publishing (weblog), accessed July 4, 2022
  14. ↑ Utsugi Elm et. al.: Cyllage City COVID-19 Outbreak Linked to Zubat Consumption. American Journal of Biomedical Science and Research, March 18, 2020. Archived November 2, 2020
  15. ↑ Scourge of pay-for-play predatory journals: American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research publishes Pokémon satire on COVID with Bruce Wayne quote from Gotham Forensics Quarterly. Genetic Literacy Project, November 19, 2020. Archived July 29, 2021
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