Whois & Analysis for omicsgroup.org

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work.

It constitutes a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field.

Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards of quality, improve performance, and provide credibility.

In academia, scholarly peer review is often used to determine an academic paper's .

Peer review can be categorized by the type of activity and by the field or profession in which the activity occurs, e.g., .

OMICS Publishing Group is a publisher of open access journals that is widely regarded as predatory.

It issued its first publication in 2008.

According to a 2012 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about 60 percent of the group's 200 journals had never actually published anything.

Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." They remove price barriers (e.g. subscription, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and most permission barriers (e.g. copyright and licensing restrictions).

While open access journals are freely available to the reader, there are still costs associated with the publication and production of such journals.

Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.

The impact factor (IF) or Journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.

It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field; journals with higher impact factors are often deemed to be more important than those with lower ones.

The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information.

Impact factors are calculated yearly starting from 1975 for those journals that are listed in the Journal Citation Reports.

Copy editing (also copy-editing or copyediting, sometimes abbreviated ce) is the process of reviewing and correcting written material to improve accuracy, readability, and fitness for its purpose, and to ensure that it is free of error, omission, inconsistency, and repetition.

In the context of publication in print, copy editing is done before typesetting and again before proofreading, the final step in the editorial cycle.