Bentham Science Publishers

Bentham Science Publishers is a company that publishes academic journals and scholarly publications in the scientific, technical, and medical fields, as well as e-books in the same areas. It publishes over 120 subscription-based academic journals and around forty open access journals. As of 2023, a total of 66 different Bentham Science journals have received JCR impact factors, and they are a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. Bentham Open, its open access division, has received criticism for questionable peer-review practices as well as invitation spam. Bentham Open was listed as a "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open access publisher" in Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory publishers, before the list went defunct.

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