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Kowsar
StatusActive
Founded2002
Country of originThe Netherlands
Headquarters locationHeerlen
DistributionWorldwide
Key peopleSeyyed Mohammad Miri (CEO)
Publication typesOpen access scientific journals
No. of employees30 (in 2019)[1]
Official websitewww.kowsarpub.com

Kowsar is an STM publishing company which was founded in 2002 by S.M. Miri and Seyed-Moayed Alavian. Kowsar journals have been peer reviewed and are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License Non Commercial 4.0.[2] The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.[3]

The publisher has been included in several studies of predatory journals,[4][5] and was included on Beall's List prior to its shutdown in 2017.[6] In 2018, PubMed Central conducted a re-evaluation of 16 Kowsar journals indexed in the database; 14 were found to "no longer satisfy PMC's Scientific Quality Standard" and were accordingly delisted.[7] Some of its journals, like Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, incorrectly claimed to be included in the Directory of Open Access Journals.[8] The issue has been resolved in December 2019.[9]

List of journals

The first journal published by Kowsar was Hepatitis Monthly. As of October 2019, Kowsar publishes 49 journals.[10] It has published more in the past.[7] The following journals are or were published by Kowsar.

References

  1. ^ "Kowsar Publishing". www.kowsarpub.com. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Open Access Statement & Copyright Policy". 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  3. ^ "COPE: KOWSAR, 56 Member Journals". Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  4. ^ Manca, Andrea; Martinez, Gianluca; Cugusi, Lucia; Dragone, Daniele; Dvir, Zeevi; Deriu, Franca (June 2017). "The surge of predatory open-access in neurosciences and neurology". Neuroscience. 353: 166–173. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.04.014. PMID 28433651. S2CID 3917134.
  5. ^ Gasparyan, Armen Yuri; Nurmashev, Bekaidar; Voronov, Alexander A.; Gerasimov, Alexey N.; Koroleva, Anna M.; Kitas, George D. (2016). "The Pressure to Publish More and the Scope of Predatory Publishing Activities". Journal of Korean Medical Science. 31 (12): 1874–1878. doi:10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1874. PMC 5102848. PMID 27822923.
  6. ^ "Beall's List of Predatory Journals and Publishers". Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  7. ^ a b McCook, Alison (2 April 2018). "In unusual move, gov't database delists 14 journals from one publisher". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Some journals say they are indexed in DOAJ but they are not". DOAJ. 23 January 2019. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Some journals say they are indexed in DOAJ but they are not". DOAJ. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  10. ^ "List of Kowsar Journals". Retrieved 26 October 2019.

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