SCOPUS Dumps OMICS Journals

A database of scientific journal titles has removed several OMICS titles for “publication concerns.”

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WIKIMEDIA, JENS MOHRThe oft-berated OMICS Publishing Group has suffered yet another blow, this time at the hands of the Elsevier’s SCOPUS publication database, which removed several of OMICS’ open-access journals citing “publication concerns,” according to Retraction Watch.

OMICS has fielded complaints from research circles and federal science agencies alike for years. In 2013, the US Department of Health and Human Services told the publisher to stop using mentions of the National Institutes of Health, its employees, or PubMed Central in misleading manners in the pages of its journals. And last year the US Federal Trade Commission sued OMICS for so-called predatory publishing practices.

SCOPUS offered no specific clarification, beyond “publication concerns,” as to why it recently discontinued multiple OMICS titles.

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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