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Pulsus Group Ltd
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Srinubabu Gedela
(Chief executive officer)
ProductsMedical journals
ServicesScience, technology, and medicine
Number of employees
5,000 (2019)
Websitepulsus.com

Pulsus Group is a

full open-access journals, 15 of which had been adopted as the official publications of related medical societies.[3] Pulsus Group also conducts conferences in association with scientific societies.[4][5]

predatory, purchased Pulsus in 2016, causing controversy and putting the future of the journals into question.[6] Pulsus was placed on Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable" predatory open-access publishers,[7]
before the list shut down in 2017.

History

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

editors-in-chief have resigned[16] and several societies have decided to take their journals to a different publisher.[15] 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.[18] Nonetheless, Jeffrey Beall added the Pulsus Group to his list of "potential, possible, or probable" predatory open-access publishers.[19]

Acquisitions

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,

Future Science Publishing Group operating as openaccessjournals.com.[21]

Predatory behavior

In 2019, it was reported that Pulsus journals were listing on their mastheads three professors from the University of Toronto, two of whom had disassociated themselves from the journals in 2014 and 2016, and the third of whom had never agreed to be associated with the journal. After this discovery, the professors' names were removed from the journals.[22]

Indian operations

Pulsus is operating from Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Visakhapatnam providing services in HealthTech, health informatics, medical publishing, and pharmacovigilance services.[23][24][25] with 5,000 employees.[26]

Pulsus' Visakhapatnam and Chennai offices translate their annual conferences and medical journals' information into local languages such as Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali.[27]

Pulsus Visakhapatnam has created more women employment since its inception,[28] through the campus placements in and around Andhra Pradesh.[29][30] Taking inspiration from Narendra Modi, Pulsus employees conducted a "Say no to plastic campaign" in association with Software Technology Parks of India[31] and conducted rallies to support the Andhra Pradesh Disha Act and to secure women employees.[32]

See also

References

  1. ^ Basu, Arpit M. (1 January 2021). "Smaller tech firms homing in on Visakhapatnam". The Times of India.
  2. ^ "Pulsus opens healthcare informatics, pharmacovigilance facility in Chennai". The Times of India. 9 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Pulsus Profile". Pulsus Group. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Pulsus 2017 16th International Conference on Nephrology". Biospace.com. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Annual World Congress on Biomarkers and Clinical Research". Military-Technologies.net. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  6. ^ Deprez, Esmé E.; Chen, Caroline (29 August 2017). "Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 25 January 2019.
  7. ^ Beall, Jeffrey. "LIST OF PUBLISHERS". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
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  9. ^ Beall, Jeffrey. "The OMICS Publishing Group's Empire is Expanding". Scholarly OA. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015.
  10. ^ Stratford, Michael (4 March 2012). "'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
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  13. ^ Kaiser, Jocelyn (9 May 2013). "U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement". Science.
  14. ^ "On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind" The Hindu, 26 September 2012.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ a b Puzic, Sonja (29 September 2016). "Offshore firm accused of publishing junk science takes over Canadian journals". CTV News. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  17. ^ "Canadian Medical Association Journal: Alleged predatory publisher buys medical journals". 3 October 2016. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  18. ^ "Full statement by Srinubabu Gedela, CEO and Managing Director of OMICS Group". CTV Television Network. 29 September 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  19. ^ Beall, Jeffrey (29 September 2016). "Scam Publisher OMICS International Buying Legitimate Journals". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  20. PRWeb
    . Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  21. PRWeb
    . Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  22. ^ Heimlich, Peter M. (22 April 2019). "Medical journals published by "predatory" publisher claim three University of Toronto faculty members are editors". The Sidebar. See also "Weekend reads". Retraction Watch. 27 April 2019.
  23. ^ Basu, Arpit M. (1 January 2021). "Smaller tech firms homing in on Visakhapatnam". The Times of India.
  24. ^ "Pulsus opens healthcare informatics, pharmacovigilance facility in Chennai". The Times of India. 9 March 2018.
  25. ^ "Pulsus campaign in association with STPI against plastic use". The Hans India. 4 October 2019.
  26. ^ "Pulsus CEO, Dr. Srinubabu Gedela received Pride of the Nation Award". The Hans India. 22 July 2019.
  27. ^ "Now, healthcare information in Telugu just a click away". The New Indian Express. 15 March 2018.
  28. ^ "'Upcoming IT hub will employ more women': Pulsus CEO". The New Indian Express. 15 February 2022.
  29. ^ "Andhra Pradesh: job mela evokes good response from pharmacy, engineering students". The Hindu. 26 February 2022.
  30. ^ "PULSUS unit coming up at IT-Special Economic Zone". The Hans India. 15 March 2018.
  31. ^ "Pulsus campaign in association with STPI against plastic use". The Hans India. 4 October 2019.
  32. ^ "Disha Act-2019 gaining popularity in North Andhra districts". The Hindu. 6 February 2020.

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