1994 country of origin united arab emirates headquarters location sharjah publication types scientific journals ebooks official website www.benthamscience.com bentham science publishers is a publishing company of scientific technical and medical literature based at sharjah united arab emirates . 1 2 bentham publishes more than 116 subscription based academic journals 2 and over 230 open access journals and e books . 3 bentham science publishers has operating units in the united states japan china india and the netherlands . more than 90 percent of the workforce is outsourced to pakistan . 4 5 other outsource operations include china uk usa india and other countries . its open access branch bentham open science has received attention for its questionable peer review practices . contents 1 publishing divisions 1.1 subscription based journals 1.2 open access 1.3 e books 2 controversies and criticism 3 see also 4 references 5 external links publishing divisions edit bentham science has three main operating divisions subscription based journals open access titles and e books . they publish research literature in all areas of science medicine technology humanities and social sciences which is available in both electronic and print versions . subscription based journals edit bentham science publishes 116 journals in the fields of biotechnology biomedical pharmaceuticals technology engineering computer and social sciences . these titles are indexed in scopus chemical abstracts medline embase pubshub etc. citation needed open access edit bentham open access publishes more than 100 peer reviewed free to view online journals under bentham open . this imprint has been identified as a predatory publisher by jeffrey beall . 6 e books edit bentham ebooks publish text books handbooks monographs biographies autobiographies conference proceedings and review volumes in the areas of medicine technology humanities natural and social sciences . controversies and criticism edit bentham open journals claim to employ peer review ; 7 however the fact that a fake paper generated with scigen had been accepted for publication has cast doubt on this . 8 9 10 furthermore the publisher is known for spamming scientists with invitations to become a member of the editorial boards of its journals . 11 in 2009 the bentham open science journal the open chemical physics journal published a study contending dust from the world trade center attacks contained active nanothermite . 12 following publication the journal s editor in chief marie paule pileni resigned stating they have printed the article without my authorization i have written to bentham that i withdraw myself from all activities with them . 13 in a review of bentham open for the charleston advisor jeffrey beall noted that in many cases bentham open journals publish articles that no legitimate peer review journal would accept and unconventional and nonconformist ideas are being presented in some of them as legitimate science . he concluded by stating that the site has exploited the open access model for its own financial motives and flooded scholarly communication with a flurry of low quality and questionable research . 14 beall has since added bentham open to his list of potential possible or probable predatory scholarly open access publishers . 15 in 2013 the open bioactive compounds journal was one of the journals that accepted an obviously bogus paper submitted as part of the who s afraid of peer review sting . 16 it has since been discontinued . 17 see also edit journals published by bentham science publishers references edit contact us . homepage . bentham science publishers . retrieved 2010 12 26 . a b bentham stays small for high impact . access asia s newspaper on electronic information product & service . retrieved 2010 12 26 . bentham science publishers . home page . retrieved 2010 12 26 . welcome to i.t.s . access asia s newspaper on electronic information product & service . beall jeffrey . list of publishers . scholarly open access . retrieved 2014 12 28 . bentham open home page . bentham science publishers ltd. retrieved 2010 07 29 . chefredakt r skrider efter kontroversiel artikel om 9 11 . videnskab.dk in danish . retrieved 2010 07 29 . crap paper accepted by journal opinion 11 june 2009 . new scientist . retrieved 2010 07 29 . editors quit after fake paper flap . the scientist . retrieved 2010 07 29 . some background on bentham open but just some peter suber open access news april 24 2008 active thermitic material discovered in dust from the 9 11 world trade center catastrophe . open chemical physics journal . retrieved 2012 07 23 . chefredakt r skrider efter kontroversiel artikel om 9 11 . vindeskab.dk . retrieved 2012 07 23 . beall jeffrey july 2009 . bentham open pdf . the charleston advisor . 11 1 29 32 . list of publishers . 15 january 2012 . data and documents . 1 october 2016 via www.sciencemag.org . the open bioactive compounds journal . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bentham science publishers & oldid 743256954 categories book publishing companies of the united arab emiratesacademic publishing companiespublishing companies established in 1994media in sharjahcompanies based in sharjahopen access publishershidden categories cs1 danish language sources da all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 20 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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