Kowsar Publishing#List of journals

{{Short description|Dutch publishing company}}

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| status = Active

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| founded = 2002

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| country = The Netherlands

| headquarters = Heerlen

| distribution = Worldwide

| keypeople = Seyyed Mohammad Miri (CEO)

| publications = Open access scientific journals

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| numemployees = 30 (in 2019){{Cite web |url=https://www.kowsarpub.com |title=Kowsar Publishing |website=www.kowsarpub.com |access-date=1 September 2019 |date=1 September 2019}}

| website = {{URL|https://brieflands.com}}

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Kowsar - now Brieflands - is an STM publishing company which was founded in 2002 by S.M. Miri and Seyed-Moayed Alavian. Kowsar journals have been peer reviewed and are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License Non Commercial 4.0.{{cite web |url=http://hepatmon.com/en/knowledgebase/category/tree.html#open_access_statement.html|title=Open Access Statement & Copyright Policy |year=2019 |access-date=1 September 2019}} The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.{{cite web |url=https://publicationethics.org/taxonomy/term/551/ |title=COPE: KOWSAR, 56 Member Journals |access-date=1 September 2019}}

The publisher has been included in several studies of predatory journals,{{cite journal |last1=Manca |first1=Andrea |last2=Martinez |first2=Gianluca |last3=Cugusi |first3=Lucia |last4=Dragone |first4=Daniele |last5=Dvir |first5=Zeevi |last6=Deriu |first6=Franca |title=The surge of predatory open-access in neurosciences and neurology |journal=Neuroscience |date=June 2017 |volume=353 |pages=166–173 |doi=10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.04.014|pmid=28433651 |s2cid=3917134 }}{{cite journal |last1=Gasparyan |first1=Armen Yuri |last2=Nurmashev |first2=Bekaidar |last3=Voronov |first3=Alexander A. |last4=Gerasimov |first4=Alexey N. |last5=Koroleva |first5=Anna M. |last6=Kitas |first6=George D. |title=The Pressure to Publish More and the Scope of Predatory Publishing Activities |journal=Journal of Korean Medical Science |date=2016 |volume=31 |issue=12 |pages=1874–1878 |doi=10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1874|pmid=27822923 |pmc=5102848 }} and was included on Beall's List prior to its shutdown in 2017.{{Cite web |url=https://beallslist.weebly.com/ |title=Beall's List of Predatory Journals and Publishers |access-date=26 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204151436/https://beallslist.weebly.com/ |archive-date=4 February 2019 |url-status=dead }} In 2018, PubMed Central conducted a re-evaluation of 16 Kowsar journals indexed in the database; 14 were found to "no longer satisfy PMC's Scientific Quality Standard" and were accordingly delisted.{{cite web |last=McCook |first=Alison |date=2 April 2018 |title=In unusual move, gov't database delists 14 journals from one publisher |url=https://retractionwatch.com/category/by-publisher/kowsar/ |website=Retraction Watch |access-date=26 October 2019}} Some of its journals, like Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, incorrectly claimed to be included in the Directory of Open Access Journals.{{Cite web |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y_Sza4rPDkf-NNX9kwiErGrKeNTM75md9B63A_gVpaQ/edit |title=Some journals say they are indexed in DOAJ but they are not |publisher=DOAJ |date=23 January 2019 |access-date=2019-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409102244/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y_Sza4rPDkf-NNX9kwiErGrKeNTM75md9B63A_gVpaQ/edit |archive-date=2019-04-09}} The issue has been resolved in December 2019.{{Cite web |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y_Sza4rPDkf-NNX9kwiErGrKeNTM75md9B63A_gVpaQ/edit |title=Some journals say they are indexed in DOAJ but they are not |publisher=DOAJ |access-date=2019-12-11}}

In 2022, the company - formerly known as KowsarMedical Publishing - became Brieflands.