Medknow Publications also known as Wolters Kluwer Medknow or simply Medknow, is a

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s on behalf of learned societies and associations. Previously an independent Indian

, Medknow is now part of within

Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a Dutch information services company. The company serves legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets. Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a merger bet ...

's Health Division, and is part of Wolters Kluwer India. Medknow is not a member of the

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. Some, but not all of its journals are listed in the

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. The publisher briefly appeared on Beall's list in 2011, but was taken down, being described as " publisher for many well-respected Indian professional societies and is disseminating abundant, high-quality research."

History

Medknow Publications was founded in 1997 in Mumbai, India by Devkumar Sahu. Sahu opted for the

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 ...

model of publishing services. In 2006, Medknow had 33 scientific technical and medical journals in its portfolio, at the time, one of the largest open access publishers of medical content in the world. Medknow was acquired by

in December 2011, extending its publishing partnerships in China, the Middle East, and other regions. As of August 2016, Medknow publishers over 370 medical society journals in over 40 specialties. In 2013,

John Bohannon John Bohannon is an American science journalist and scientist who is Director of Science at Primer, an artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California. He is known for his career prior to Primer as a science journalist a ...

submitted a fake paper to the ''Journal of Natural Pharmaceuticals'', published by Medknow, as part of the ''

Who's Afraid of Peer Review? "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" is an article written by ''Science'' correspondent John Bohannon that describes his investigation of peer review among fee-charging open-access journals. Between January and August 2013, Bohannon submitted fake s ...

'' sting investigating open-access publishing. The journal accepted the fake paper, and was subsequently closed by Wolters Kluwer, citing 'deep concerns'. Many Medknow journal websites are now hijacked by spam websites rendering the journals inaccessible.See for example:

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