Gedela Srinubabu | |
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Born | Allena, Srikakulam, India |
Alma mater | B.Pharma, MTech, PhD at Andhra University, and Post Doctorate at Stanford University |
Occupation(s) | Scientist, industrialist |
Employer(s) | CEO, Pulsus Group |
Title | Vice-President of Federation of Asian Biotech Association (FABA) and Delegation of India to the European Union [1] [2] |
Website | http://www.srinubabu.com |
Gedela Srinubabu is the chief executive officer of Pulsus Group. [3] He founded the OMICS Publishing Group publishing group, scientific journal publishing company that publishes science findings online for free. [4]
Srinubabu served as the co-convenor of the Health, Pharma, and Tech Summit Series, executed across G20 countries to promote AI in healthcare and technology advancements. [5] [6] He is also serving as BC Leader, participated in farmer empowerment programs and also serving as executive council member of Dr Ambedkar University. [7] [8] [9]
However, OMICS journals and other journals, conferences have been characterized as predatory publishing journals and predatory conferences with poor quality controls and a lack of legitimate services [10] [11] [12] As a result of this business model, Srinubabu's journals have been banned from indexing within the National Institutes of Health's PubMed Central. [13] Additionally, in 2019, his company OMICS Publishing Group [14] was required to pay 50.1 million dollars in damages [15] following a US Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company was deceiving researchers [16] and the academicians. [17] [18]
Srinubabu completed his PhD from Andhra University and his post-doctorate from Stanford University. In 2007, he received the Young Scientist Award from the Human Proteome Organization in Seoul, South Korea. [19] [13] [20]
Srinubabu has published research articles on how to study biological phenomena using mathematical models and how to detect cancer or diabetes early. He has published about 30 articles in various peer-reviewed journals. According to Google Scholar, Srinubabu's articles have been cited about 580 times, giving him an h-index of 13. [21]
Srinubabu founded the notorious open-access publisher, OMICS Publishing Group, widely regarded as predatory. He purchased Pulsus Group in 2016, causing controversy and putting the future of the journals that it published into question. [12] The company has been placed on Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable" predatory open-access publishers. [22]
In 2013, Srinubabu served as the Vice President of the Federation of Asian Biotech Association (FABA) to improve the global trade, BS Bajaj said that the representation and services of Gedela is crucial in increasing FABA's global growth. [1] [23] In 2019, Srinubabu worked for Bilateral investment treaty of India and China. [24] [25]
Belgium Embassy delegates and European delegation team visited the Pulsus Group office in Hyderabad in 2018 to sign an agreement to establish a Pulsus center in Belgium. [26] At the 2019 Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) held in Greece, Srinubabu along with Indian Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri participated as Indian delegation and met with the Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis to discuss the translation of health care and agriculture information into regional languages. [2] [27] [28]
Since 2013, US-based blogger Jeffrey Beall has used his personal blog, scholarlyoa.com, to criticise the publishing practises of Omics Group and Srinubabu. Through his blog, allegations were made against Omics regarding the quality of its scientific journals and its business practises. [29] [30] Omics files a lawsuit against Jeffrey Beall, seeking damages of $1 billion. [31] Effective January 2017, Jeffrey Beall resigned from his services at University of Colorado Denver and shut his blogs. However, no further follow-up was made about damages of $1 billion in legal affairs. [32]
In 2016, based on blog postings by Beall, the Trade Commission of the United States filed a lawsuit against Omics publishing practices, citing their detrimental effects on American publisher's loss of trade to the United States. If 10,000 articles article is published in open access journals, the publication cost is about $10 million with an average $2000 article processing cost, depending on the open-access journal publisher's model, and if the same 10,000 articles are published under a subscription business, they can generate about $500 million annually by giving subscriptions to thousands of universities and research institutions across the world. Subscription models are followed by the majority of Western publishing companies, including academic publishing companies of United States. [33] [34] In April 2019, the court imposed a fine of US$50.1 Million on Omics companies. [35] [36] [37] Omics' lawyer said that this was an unfair allegation and that Omics had sued the US Federal Trade Commission for $3.11 billion in damages, saying it had caused loss of revenue and reputation. [36] [38] Srinubabu commented on the case filed by the Federal Trade Commission. "The Federal Trade Commission's allegation is completely wrong... They don't know what a journal is. Don't know what peer review is. They are illiterate in this matter. But scientists are not illiterate, they know which article to publish in which journal." [38]
The party announced Srinubabu as the Jana Sena candidate for the Visakhapatnam parliamentary constituency in the 2019 general elections [39] But after two or three days, Srinubabu left the party and joined the YSR Congress party. [40] He has been appointed as State Secretary by Telugu Desam Party in 2024. [41]
In 2018 Srinubabu visited areas affected by Cyclone Titli and observed distribution of food, blankets and clothing. [42] [43] [44] His organization has donated one crore rupees to Government of Andhra Pradesh, twenty five lakh rupees to Government of Telangana and distributed masks and sanitizers in various districts for the relief of coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, [45] [46] and also donated Rs 20 lakhs to Ram Mandir construction. [47]
Srinubabu received the Pride of the Nation Award in 2019, [48] and the Government of India Champions of Change 2018 award. [49]
Srinubabu is the owner of Vizag Warriors, of the Andhra Premier League T20 cricket league in Andhra Pradesh. [50] [51] [52]
Indian actor, producer and businessman Ram Charan has invested in the team with Srinubabu, aiming to get the team promoted to the IPL in 2024. [53] [54]
Andhra University is a public university located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1926. It is graded as an A++ institution by NAAC receiving a score of 3.74 on a scale of 4.
Daniel G. Bogden is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
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