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We consider SCIREA's revenue in an attempt to estimate how much profit this publisher makes. We estimate their revenue to be USD 151,340, with a profit of about USD 121,072.
SCIREA is a scientific publisher that has a portfolio of 39 journals. These 39 journals have 13,288 editors, meaning that each journal has an average of 341 editors. Each of these editors has handled...
Google Scholar and the International Journal of Management (IAEME Publication)
The International Journal of Management (ISSN: 0976-6502), which is published by IAEME Publication has two Google Scholar entries. Each one shows a different number of publications, citations,...
Vanity and predatory academic publishers are corrupting the pursuit of knowledge
Radio National’s Background Briefing recently presented a grim academic tale of identity theft, shambolic conferences, exploitation, sham peer review and pseudoscience. This article was originally...
One of the features (we like to believe) of our Twitter account are the regular posts we do that feature “Soundbites” and “EMAIL snippets”. But what are they, why do we feature these, why do...
We show an email exchange between the International Journal of Biosensors & Bioelectronics (ISSN: 2573-2838), which is published by MedCrave, and a potential author. We show the full email exchange...