Baishideng Publishing Group (BPG; zh, 百世登出版集团) is a publisher of

medical journals Medical literature is the scientific literature of medicine: articles in journals and texts in books devoted to the field of medicine. Many references to the medical literature include the health care literature generally, including that of denti ...

based in

Pleasanton, California Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. Located in the Amador Valley, it is an upscale suburb in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 79,871 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 cens ...

. It was established on January 15, 1993, and originally published only one journal: the Chinese-language ''Journal of New Digestology'' (renamed to the ''World Chinese Journal of Digestology'' in 1999; ). Its second journal was the '' World Journal of Gastroenterology'', originally launched in 1995 as the ''China National Journal of New Gastroenterology''. As of 2017, the company published 43 journals, 42 in English and one in Chinese. The company joined the

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(ALPSP) in 2017. They are also a member of the

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(OASPA). All 43 of BPG's journals are members of the

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(COPE). Baishideng Publishing Group was listed on the 'original' Beall's List of potential

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. The publisher has persisted in being listed at a successor to Beall's List, Stop Predatory Journals. BPG was named in a 2019 cover story of ''

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'' as a "junk publisher" alongside

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, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, and

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Journals

BPG used the "F6Publishing system" as of 2017, an integrated web-based platform designed by BPG to facilitate the multiple processes, reviews and approvals involved in academic publishing.

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