Future Medicine

Future Medicine is a privately owned company based in London, England, United Kingdom. It is part of Future Science Publishing Group, primarily to publish peer-reviewed medical journals. Future Medicine publishes hybrid and full open access journals.^[1]

Future Medicine Ltd

Industry	Academic publishing
Headquarters	Unitec House, 2 Albert Place, London, N3 1QB, UK
Website	www.futuremedicine.com

Business model

Future Medicine publishes open access or subscription journals, which are owned by the respective societies they serve. The open access journals require authors to pay an article processing charge.^[2] The company also provides an accelerated publication option, with speedy processing and publication of accepted articles within 6 weeks of submission.^[3]

Journals

Main category: Future Science Group academic journals

In 2016, the company sold several of its journals to OMICS Publishing Group, who moved them to Pulsus Group, a company they recently acquired.^[4][5] OMICS is widely regarded as predatory publisher.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}

The journals sold were^[12]

• Clinical Practice
• Diabetes Management
• Imaging in Medicine
• International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology
• Interventional Cardiology
• Neuropsychiatry

References

1. "Future Science Group". EurekAlert!. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
2. "Open Access Authors Option". future-science-group.com. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
3. "Accelerated publication option". futuremedicine.com. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
4. Chown, Marco; Favaro, Avis; St. Philip, Elizabeth (29 September 2016). "Canadian medical journals hijacked for junk science". Toronto Star. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
5. Puzic, Sonja (29 September 2016). "Offshore firm accused of publishing junk science takes over Canadian journals". CTV News. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
6. Beall, Jeffrey. "The OMICS Publishing Group's Empire is Expanding". Scholarly OA. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015.
7. Stratford, Michael (4 March 2012). "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle.com. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
8. Beall, Jeffrey (1 July 2010). "Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers" (PDF). The Charleston Advisor. 12: 50. doi:10.5260/chara.12.1.50.
9. Butler, Declan (March 2013). "Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing". Nature. 495 (7442): 433–435. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..433B. doi:10.1038/495433a. PMID 23538810. S2CID 4425229.
10. Jocelyn Kaiser, "ScienceInsider: U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement" Archived 2013-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, Science, 09 May 2013
11. "On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind" The Hindu, 26 September 2012.
12. "Pulsus Acquires openaccessjournals.com: The Peer Reviewed Open Access Journals Publisher". PRWeb. Retrieved 7 May 2019.

External links

• Official website