Scientific Research Publishing
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is a predatory academic publisher of open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies that are considered to be of questionable quality. As of December 2014, it offered 244 English-language open-access journals in the areas of science, technology, business, economy, and medicine.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Huaibei Zhou |
| Headquarters location | Wuhan, China |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Huaibei Zhou |
| Publication types | Academic journals and books |
| Nonfiction topics | Life sciences, economics, chemistry, computer science, environmental sciences, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, social sciences |
| Owner(s) | Wuhan Erwan Culture Communication Co., Ltd. Wuhan Grand Technology Service Co., Ltd. |
| No. of employees | About 160 |
| Official website | www |
The company has been accused of using email spam to solicit papers for submission. Although it has an address in southern California, according to Jeffrey Beall it is a Chinese operation. In 2014 there was a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, Advances in Anthropology, with the outgoing editor-in-chief saying of the publisher "For them it was only about making money. We were simply their 'front'."