founded 1984 headquarters 323 kerr st. 207 oakville ontario canada area served worldwide products medical journals parent omics publishing group website www.pulsus.com pulsus group is a publisher of scientific technical and medical literature . it was formed in 1984 primarily to publish peer reviewed medical journals . as of 2016 update pulsus publishes 19 hybrid and full open access journals 7 of which have been adopted as the official publications of the related medical societies . 1 the company has been placed on jeffrey beall s list of potential possible or probable predatory open access publishers . 2 contents 1 history 2 business model 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in 1984 by robert kalina to provide canadian doctors with an alternative to american journals . in december 2015 pulsus sold four of its journals to the open access publisher hindawi publishing corporation . 3 pulsus was bought by omics publishing group an open access publisher widely regarded as predatory 4 5 6 7 8 9 in 2016 causing controversy and putting the future of the journals into question . 10 11 kalina the owner of pulsus group was retiring but could not find buyers for pulsus group s remaining journals but claimed that the sale negotiated with omics would continue to protect the interests of the societies that own the journals . 12 the ceo of omics has promised that the journals published by pulsus will be run independently by the respective societies that they belong to with omics only providing hosting pdf formatting and design . 13 nonetheless jeffrey beall added pulsus group to his list of potential possible or probable predatory open access publishers . 14 in september 2016 pulsus group acquired another canadian publisher andrew john publishing including 17 medical journals associated with medical societies of the middle east and canada 15 and openaccessjournals.com . 16 business model edit pulsus group publishes 19 open access or subscription journals 7 of which are owned by the respective societies they serve . the open access journals require authors to pay an article processing charge . since the takeover by omics several editors in chief have resigned 11 and a number of societies have decided to take their journals to a different publisher . 10 see also edit pulsus group academic journals references edit pulsus profile . pulsus group . retrieved 2016 10 07 . beall jeffrey . list of publishers . scholarly open access . retrieved 2016 09 21 . brown c. 3 october 2016 . alleged predatory publisher buys medical journals . canadian medical association journal . doi 10.1503 cmaj .109 5338 . beall jeffrey . the omics publishing group s empire is expanding . scholarly oa . stratford michael 2012 03 04 . predatory online journals lure scholars who are eager to publish . chronicle.com . retrieved 2012 10 02 . beall jeffrey 2010 07 01 . update predatory open access scholarly publishers . the charleston advisor . charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com . retrieved 2012 10 02 . declan butler investigating journals the dark side of publishing nature 27 march 2013 jocelyn kaiser scienceinsider u.s. government accuses open access publisher of trademark infringement science 09 may 2013 on the net a scam of a most scholarly kind the hindu 26 september 2012 . a b chown marco ; favaro avis ; st. philip elizabeth 29 september 2016 . canadian medical journals hijacked for junk science . toronto star . retrieved 29 september 2016 . a b puzic sonja 29 september 2016 . offshore firm accused of publishing junk science takes over canadian journals . ctv news . retrieved 30 september 2016 . canadian medical association journal alleged predatory publisher buys medical journals . 3 october 2016 . retrieved 11 october 2016 . full statement by srinubabu gedela ceo and managing director of omics group . ctv television network . retrieved 2016 10 06 . beall jeffrey 2016 09 29 . scam publisher omics international buying legitimate journals . scholarly open access . retrieved 2016 10 07 . babu abhishek 2016 09 16 . pulsus group takes over andrew john publications a major break through in medical publishing press release . pulsus group . prweb . retrieved 2016 09 17 . babu abhishek 2016 09 20 . pulsus acquires openaccessjournals.com the peer reviewed open access journals publisher press release . pulsus group . prweb . retrieved 2016 09 17 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pulsus group & oldid 743856532 categories academic publishing companiespublishing companies of canadapublishing companies established in 19841984 establishments in ontariohidden categories use canadian english from july 2016all wikipedia articles written in canadian englishuse dmy dates from october 2015articles containing potentially dated statements from 2016all articles containing potentially dated statements 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 add links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 17 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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