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Bentham Science

Although the Bentham Science website promises "authentic peer review," Wikipedia (12/21/16) notes that 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". 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." ... In 2013, 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. It has since been discontinued. I received the following request to be a peer-reviewer of an article outside my expertise: From: Editorial Office [editorial@benthamscience-reviews.com] Sent: Feb. 21, 2018, 12:50 PM Dr. DH Kaye, Penn State Univ, Sch Law, University Pk PA 16...