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Bentham Science Publishers
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Bentham Science Publishers
Bentham Science Publishers Logo.png
Founded   1994
Country of origin   United Arab Emirates
Headquarters location   Sharjah
Distribution   Global
Publication types   Scientific journals, e-books
No. of employees   300 - 500
Official website   benthamscience.com

Bentham Science Publishers is a company that publishes scientific, technical, and medical journals and e-books. It publishes over 100 subscription-based academic journals[1] and almost 40 open access journals.[2] It is based in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates,[1] and has offices in the United States, Japan, China, India, and the Netherlands. [3][1] As of 2021, 40 Bentham Science journals have received JCR impact factors, and they are a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.[4]

Bentham Open, its open access division, has received some criticism for its questionable peer-review practices, and was listed as a "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open access publisher" in Jeffrey Beall's list of Predatory Publishers.[5]


Contents
1   Publishing divisions
2   Criticism of Bentham Open
3   See also
4   References
5   External links
Publishing divisions
Bentham Science has three main operating divisions: subscription-based journals, open access titles, and e-books. They publish research literature in all areas of science, medicine and technology which is available in both electronic and print versions.

Bentham Science publishes more than 100 subscription-based journals. These titles are indexed in Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubsHub, etc.[6]

Bentham Open Access published more than 150 peer-reviewed, free-to-view online journals under Bentham Open, and has since reduced to a roster of 39 open access journals. In 2020, Bentham announced a new open-access journal, Coronaviruses, to cover COVID-19 related research.[7]

Criticism of Bentham Open
Bentham Open journals employ peer review;[8] however, a fake paper that was generated using SCIgen in 2009 was accepted for publication, though it was never officially published in any of Bentham's journals - and the publisher contends that the acceptance was an attempt to catch the author who submitted the paper.[9] Another SCIgen generated fake paper submitted to the Open Software Engineering Journal in 2009 as part of the same operation was rejected by the publisher after peer review.[10][11][12]

Bentham Open was accused of spamming scientists with invitations to become members of the editorial boards of its journals in 2008,[13] prompting the fake submission.[11] The emails sent by Bentham included invitations to the editorial board of subjects where the recipient had no expertise.[11] In consequence, some editors quit the collaboration with Bentham.[10][12]

In 2009, the Bentham Open Science journal The Open Chemical Physics Journal published a study contending dust from the World Trade Center attacks contained "active nanothermite",[14] a well known 9/11 conspiracy theory. Following publication, the journal's editor-in-chief Marie-Paule Pileni resigned stating, "They have printed the article without my authorization… I have written to Bentham, that I withdraw myself from all activities with them".[15]

In a July 2009 review of Bentham Open for The Charleston Advisor, Jeffrey Beall noted that "in many cases, Bentham Open journals publish articles that no legitimate peer-review journal would accept, and unconventional and nonconformist ideas are being presented in some of them as legitimate science." He concluded by stating that "the site has exploited the Open Access model for its own financial motives and flooded scholarly communication with a flurry of low quality and questionable research."[16] Beall has since added Bentham Open to his list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers".[17]

In 2013, the now-discontinued The Open Bioactive Compounds Journal was one of the journals that accepted an obviously bogus paper submitted as part of the Who's Afraid of Peer Review? sting.[18]

In a 2017 study of invitation spam by publishers, Bentham Open was one of the most frequent invitation spammers.[19]

See also
Category: Bentham Science Publishers academic journals
References
 "Bentham stays small for high impact". ACCESS – Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Product & Service (50). September 2004. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
 "Bentham Science - International Publisher of Journals and Books". Retrieved 2010-12-26.
 "Contacts ::: Bentham Science Publishers".
 "Bentham Science Publishers". COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
 Stuart Yeates (December 2017). "After Beall's List of predatory publishers: problems with the list and paths forward". Information Research. 2 (4).
 "Bentham Science Publishers SCOPUS Index". SCOPUS. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
 "Bentham Science announces new journal to cover latest research on coronaviruses". News-Medical.net. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
 "Bentham Open Home Page". Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. Archived from the original on 2010-07-27. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
 https://www.chronicle.com/article/Science-Publisher-Suggests-It/47768
 "Chefredaktør skrider efter kontroversiel artikel om 9/11". Videnskab.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 2009-12-01. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
 "CRAP paper accepted by journal – opinion – 11 June 2009". New Scientist. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
 "Editors quit after fake paper flap". The Scientist. Retrieved 2010-07-29./
 Some background on Bentham Open, but just some Peter Suber, Open Access News, April 24, 2008
 "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe". Open Chemical Physics Journal. Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
 "Chefredaktør skrider efter kontroversiel artikel om 9/11". Vindeskab.dk. 28 April 2009. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
 Beall, Jeffrey (July 2009). "Bentham Open" (PDF). The Charleston Advisor. 11 (1): 29–32.
 Beall, Jeffrey. "List of publishers". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2014-12-28.
 Bohannon, John (1 October 2016). "Data and Documents". Science. 342 (6154): 60–65. doi:10.1126/science.2013.342.6154.342_60. PMID 24092725 – via www.sciencemag.org.
 Clemons, Mark; Silva, Miguel de Costa e; Joy, Anil Abraham; Cobey, Kelly D.; Mazzarello, Sasha; Stober, Carol; Hutton, Brian (2017-02-01). "Predatory Invitations from Journals: More Than Just a Nuisance?". The Oncologist. 22 (2): 236–240. doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2016-0371. ISSN 1083-7159. PMC 5330713. PMID 28188258.
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