Dove Medical Press

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Dove Medical Press
Founded 2003
Country of origin New Zealand
Headquarters location Auckland
Distribution Worldwide
Key people Tim Hill, Publisher
Nonfiction topics Science and Medicine
Number of employees 50
Official website www.dovepress.com

Dove Medical Press is an academic publisher of open access peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals, charging a publication fee to the authors or their institutions or funders. It is a member of the Open Archives Initiative.[1] It publishes 131 journals (as of April, 2013) [2] in related scientific, medical, and technical subjects. Dove Medical Press is a privately held company founded in 2003. It has offices in Manchester and London in the United Kingdom; Memphis, Tennessee in the United States; and editorial offices in Auckland, New Zealand.

As of 11 April 2013 (2013-04-11), 42 of the 131 journals were indexed in PubMed, while 30 of the 131 journals had fewer than 10 articles. The journals with the most articles were International Journal of Nanomedicine with 1320, Clinical Ophthalmology with 1,273, Vascular Health and Risk Management with 784 articles, and Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management with 649 [2] In 2012, the company was included on a list of "predatory open access publishers."[3]

History

Dove Medical Press was founded in Manchester, United Kingdom, in 2003.[4]

See also

  • Journals published by Dove Medical Press

References

  1. "Registration Record". Dove Medical Press. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dove Press journal browse Accessed 11 April, 2013
  3. Beall, Jeffrey (2012). "Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers". University of Colorado Denver Website. Retrieved 29 January 2014. 
  4. "Dove Medical Press publishes 10,000 academic papers". Scoop.co.nz. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2014. 

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