OMICS International
Horror stories abound. See Wikipedia | Australian Broadcasting Corp. | Beall ( 1 | 2 ) | Individuals: ( 1 | 2 ). In August 2016, the FTC charged the OMICS Group , its tentacles (iMedPub LLC and Conference Series LLC), and Managing Director and CEO Srinubabu Gedela, with multiple deceptive acts or practices. See also Kevin Carey, Fake Academe, Looking Much Like the Real Thing , N.Y. Times, Dec. 30, 2016. The website boasts "700+ leading-edge peer reviewed, Open Access Journals that operates with the help of 50,000+ Editorial Board Members and esteemed reviewers and 1000+ Scientific associations." If that is not enough, would you believe "more than 15 million readers" study these journals? It might take that many to decipher some of the articles. For example, the webpage of the Journal of Scientific and Industrial Metrology includes the "relevant topic" of electricity and magnetism , which is defined -- mind-numbingly -- as follows: This article pre...