Jacobs Publishers is a publisher of various international journals based in Hyderabad, India. Jacobs Publishers has been included on Beall's List of predatory open-access publishers and has faced other criticisms of its publishing practices.
Activities Jacobs Publishers LLC was created in 2013.corporationstx.com Accessed 2 October 2018 The company uses an Open Access model of publishing, which charges the authors. Articles are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers. The company claims that articles are peer reviewed before publication.About us. Jacobs Publishers. Accessed 2 October 2019
In 2018 the company published about 75 journals in the fields of clinical and medical science, life sciences, chemistry, engineering, and pharmacy.Journals list. Jacobs Publishers, accessed 2 October 2018
Criticism Jacobs Publishers was listed on Beall's List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers. Beall's List of Predatory Publishers. Exploring the Evidence Base (weblog), 23 January 2017. Accessed 2 October 2018 The company has been criticized for sending out email spam to scientists, calling out for papers,List of spamming journals. Homepage of Takeshi Igawa, PhD. Accessed 2 October 2018Jacobs Publishers. Flaky Academic Journals (weblog), January 1, 2017. Accessed 2 October 2018Jacobs Journal of Experimental Dermatology. Scam or Spam? Dodgy journals & conferences (weblog). Accessed 2 October 2018 and for having provided infrastructure for other publishers who send out email spam.ISaMed Journals. scientificspam.net (weblog), 27 August 2017. Accessed 2 October 2018 It has further been criticized for giving incoherent advice to journal authors, for unqualified journal editors, and that their editors are also active for predatory publishers like OMICS Publishing Group.
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