Juniper Publishers is a publisher of various academic journals. It has a postal address in Irvine, California, USA, located in a residential neighborhoodContact us. Juniper Publishers, accessed June 29, 2022 but has employees in Hyderabad, India.Juniper Publishers. Ambitionbox, accessed June 29, 2022 Juniper Publishers has been included on Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers,Beall's List of Potential Predatory Publishers, accessed June 29, 2022 and has faced other criticisms of its publishing practices.
Activities Juniper Publishers has been active at least since 2015.About us. Juniper Publishers, accessed June 29, 2022 The company uses an Open Access model of publishing, which charges the authors. Articles are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers. The company claims that articles are peer reviewed before publication. In 2022 the company published about 75 journals in the fields of clinical and medical science, life sciences, chemistry, engineering, and pharma.Journals list. Juniper Publishers, accessed June 18, 2022. As of 2022, most of its journals do not have a scientific editor in chief.Examples: AJPN, AIBM, ARGH, AJOP, ADOH, APBIJ, ASM, AAPS, CTBEB, IJESNR, JGWH, JDVS OAJS, TTSR, accessed June 30, 2022 Juniper Publishers' journals are not listed in Clarivate's Web of Science,Master Journal List. Web of Science Group, accessed October 13, 2022 which calculates Impact factors for scientific journals; nevertheless Juniper Publishers displays so-called Impact Factors for its journals, whose origins are not explained.Examples IJESNR, JGWH, accessed October 13, 2022 Its journals are not indexed in National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE, but articles are included in PubMed Central and may be accessed through the PubMed access platform.
Criticism Juniper Publishers was listed in Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers. The company has been criticized for sending out email spam to scientists, calling for papers,Juniper Publishers and the Journal of Forensic Science & Criminal Investigation . Flaky Academic Journals (weblog), January 21, 2017, accessed June 29, 2022Predatory journals want my papers on reproduction and aquaculture. Why Evolution is True (weblog), November 14, 20018, accessed June 29, 2022 and for publishing at least one paper that violated research integrity (missing conflict of interest statement, missing informed consent by patients, and plagiarism).It's written in the scars. Science Integrity Digest (weblog), May 24, 2019, accessed June 29, 2022
In 2020, two biologists published a non-sensical study in Juniper's Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal, which amongst other included the claim that barn swallows and flying fish are sister lineages, thus demonstrating that the peer review promised by the publisher and paid by the customers was non-existent or deeply flawed.Fishy birds, birdy fish, poisonous fungi, and pizza: Our “scientific breakthroughs” published in predatory journal. Martin Stervander Evolutionary Biologist PhD (weblog), January 12, 2021, accessed June 29, 2022
Keith Taber, Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge,Keith Taber. University of Cambridge, accessed March 3, 2023 analysed several articles from an author named Rahul Hajare. These articles were characterized by "titles not reflecting the paper, abstracts that do not actually discuss the study, conflation of unrelated topics, nonsensical sentences that any editor or reviewer should ask to be revised/corrected, glaring inconsistencies, and citing only his own publications", and had been published in Juniper's journals Advanced Research in Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Trends in Technical & Scientific Research,Hoaxing the post-truth journals. Is Rahul Hajare the Alan Sokal for the Open Access era?: Part 1. Science-Education-Research (weblog), November 29, 2021, accessed March 3, 2023 Advances in Biotechnology & Microbiology,Can academic misconduct be justified for the greater good? Is Rahul Hajare the Alan Sokal for the Open Access era?: Part 2. Science-Education-Research (weblog), November 30, 2021, accessed March 3, 2023 and Organic & Medicinal Chemistry International Journal."A cure for this cancer of stupidity. The scholarly community needs to shame academics who knowingly offer respectability to obviously dishonest practices and the dissemination of fabricated research reports. Science-Education-Research (weblog), November 28, 2021
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