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Kowsar
Status
Active
Founded
2002
Country of origin
The Netherlands
Headquarters location
Heerlen
Distribution
Worldwide
Key people
Seyyed Mohammad Miri (CEO)
Publication types
Open access scientific journals
No. of employees
30 (in 2019)[1]
Official website
brieflands.com
Kowsar - now Brieflands - is an STM publishing company which was founded in 2002 by S.M. Miri and Seyed-Moayed Alavian. Kowsar journals have been peer reviewed and are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License Non Commercial 4.0.[2] The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.[3]
The publisher has been included in several studies of predatory journals,[4][5] and was included on Beall's List prior to its shutdown in 2017.[6] In 2018, PubMed Central conducted a re-evaluation of 16 Kowsar journals indexed in the database; 14 were found to "no longer satisfy PMC's Scientific Quality Standard" and were accordingly delisted.[7] Some of its journals, like Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, incorrectly claimed to be included in the Directory of Open Access Journals.[8] The issue has been resolved in December 2019.[9]
In 2022, the company - formerly known as KowsarMedical Publishing - became Brieflands.
^"Kowsar Publishing". www.kowsarpub.com. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
^"COPE: KOWSAR, 56 Member Journals". Retrieved 1 September 2019.
^Manca, Andrea; Martinez, Gianluca; Cugusi, Lucia; Dragone, Daniele; Dvir, Zeevi; Deriu, Franca (June 2017). "The surge of predatory open-access in neurosciences and neurology". Neuroscience. 353: 166–173. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.04.014. PMID 28433651. S2CID 3917134.
^Gasparyan, Armen Yuri; Nurmashev, Bekaidar; Voronov, Alexander A.; Gerasimov, Alexey N.; Koroleva, Anna M.; Kitas, George D. (2016). "The Pressure to Publish More and the Scope of Predatory Publishing Activities". Journal of Korean Medical Science. 31 (12): 1874–1878. doi:10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1874. PMC 5102848. PMID 27822923.
^"Beall's List of Predatory Journals and Publishers". Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
^McCook, Alison (2 April 2018). "In unusual move, gov't database delists 14 journals from one publisher". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
^"Some journals say they are indexed in DOAJ but they are not". DOAJ. 23 January 2019. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
^"Some journals say they are indexed in DOAJ but they are not". DOAJ. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
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