Future Medicine is a privately owned company based in

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, England, United Kingdom. It is part of Future Science Publishing Group, primarily to publish

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. Future Medicine publishes hybrid and full open access journals.

Business model

Future Medicine publishes

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

subscription The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century. It ...

journals, which are owned by the respective societies they serve. The open access journals require authors to pay an

article processing charge An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors. Most commonly, it is involved in making an academic work available as open access (OA), in either a full OA journal or in a hybri ...

. The company also provides an accelerated publication option, with speedy processing and publication of accepted articles within 6 weeks of submission.

Journals

In 2016, the company sold several of its journals to

OMICS Publishing Group OMICS Publishing Group is a predatory publisher of open access academic journals. It started publishing its first journal in 2008. By 2015, it claimed over 700 journals, although about half of them were defunct. Its subsidiaries and brands in ...

, who moved them to Pulsus Group, a company they recently acquired. OMICS is widely regarded as predatory publisher.Jocelyn Kaiser
"ScienceInsider: U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement"
, ''Science'', 09 May 2013"On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind"
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'', 26 September 2012. The journals sold were *''

Clinical Practice ''Clinical Practice'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access medical journal. It covers good clinical practice and health care. The journal was established in 2004 as ''Therapy'' by Future Drugs Ltd, obtaining its current name in 2012 when it wa ...

'' *'' Diabetes Management'' *'' Imaging in Medicine'' *'' International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology'' *''

Interventional Cardiology Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplast ...

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Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with psychiatry as it relates to neurology, in an effort to understand and attribute behavior to the interaction of neurobiology and social psychology factors. Within neuropsychiatry, the mind i ...

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