Herald Scholarly Open Access is an Indian publisher of various academic journals. Herald Scholarly Open Access has been included on Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers,Beall’s List of Potential Predatory Publishers, accessed 29 June 2022 and has faced other criticisms of its publishing practices.
Activities Herald Scholarly Open Access has been active at least since 2015. 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.Herald Scholarly Open Access, accessed 1 July 2022 , the company was publishing 74 journals in the fields of clinical and medical science, life sciences, and pharma. Its journals are not indexed in Medline, Scopus or Web of Science.
Criticism Herald Scholarly Open Access was listed in Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers. In an analysis of predatory publishing blacklists and whitelists, Michaela Strinzel, Anna Severin, Katrin Milzow and Matthias Egger note that Herald appears both on Beall's List and the Directory of Open Access Journals.
The company has been criticized for sending out email spam to scientists, calling out for papers, and for choosing journal titles mimicking the titles of established, indexed journals.
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