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They want to sound like BioMed Central.
JSciMed Central is a questionable open-access publisher of 36 journals. It lists two U.S. addresses as its headquarters locations, and I’ve long suspected these were dummy addresses. Now I’ve learned the publisher’s real headquarters location.
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The publisher wants you to think it’s based in the U.S., but it’s not.
These are the two addresses that JSciMed Central gives on its ‘contact us’ page. The first one is really the address of Harvard Business Services, Inc. in Lewes, Delaware, United States. It’s a company that does easy, cheap, and fast business incorporations.
The second address belongs to Market Street Shipping, a company itself mysterious because it lacks a website. The link here goes to a Google Plus website for the business.
JScimed Central is really located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. This is confirmed by looking up the company in an Indian online business directory called companyinfoz.com.
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Finally, the honest address.
Another online directory also gives the same information. Both list the company’s director as Jacob Nixon Geddam.
So, I think it’s very likely that Jacob is also the owner of Jacobs Publishers, another highly-questionable publisher on my list:
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Jacob Nixon Geddam, that is.
Note that the “J” symbol here matches that used on JSciMed Central. This publisher purports to be headquartered at this address:
9600 GREAT HILLS
TRIAL # 150 W
AUSTIN, TEXAS
78759 ( TRAVIS COUNTY)
E-MAIL : info@jacobspublishers.com
Phone : 512-400-0398 512-400-0398 FREE
But I suspect this is also a dummy address.
What other publishing brands does this guy own? Hyderabad, India is also the home of OMICS Publishing Group, so predatory publishing seems to be the growth industry of the Hyderabad area.
Publishers have an ethical obligation to provide full and honest information about their operations. I think it is unethical to hide or misrepresent information as these two publishers have done.
I recommend against submitting papers to dishonest, non-transparent, and sneaky publishers such as these. If they are dishonest about basic things like their address, they will probably be dishonest about other things as well.
Hat tip: James Sarrel
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