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Status | Active |
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Founded | 2002 |
Country of origin | The Netherlands |
Headquarters location | Heerlen |
Distribution | Worldwide |
Key people | Seyyed Mohammad Miri (CEO) |
Publication types | Open access scientific journals |
No. of employees | 30 (in 2019) [1] |
Official website |
brieflands |
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. [2] The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. [3]
The publisher has been included in several studies of predatory journals, [4] [5] and was included on Beall's List prior to its shutdown in 2017. [6] 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. [7] Some of its journals, like Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, incorrectly claimed to be included in the Directory of Open Access Journals. [8] The issue has been resolved in December 2019. [9]
In 2022, the company - formerly known as KowsarMedical Publishing - became Brieflands.
The first journal published by Kowsar was Hepatitis Monthly. As of October 2019, Kowsar publishes 49 journals. [10] It has published more in the past. [7] The following journals are or were published by Kowsar.
![]() | A major contributor to this article appears to have a
close connection with its subject. (December 2019) |
Status | Active |
---|---|
Founded | 2002 |
Country of origin | The Netherlands |
Headquarters location | Heerlen |
Distribution | Worldwide |
Key people | Seyyed Mohammad Miri (CEO) |
Publication types | Open access scientific journals |
No. of employees | 30 (in 2019) [1] |
Official website |
brieflands |
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. [2] The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. [3]
The publisher has been included in several studies of predatory journals, [4] [5] and was included on Beall's List prior to its shutdown in 2017. [6] 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. [7] Some of its journals, like Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, incorrectly claimed to be included in the Directory of Open Access Journals. [8] The issue has been resolved in December 2019. [9]
In 2022, the company - formerly known as KowsarMedical Publishing - became Brieflands.
The first journal published by Kowsar was Hepatitis Monthly. As of October 2019, Kowsar publishes 49 journals. [10] It has published more in the past. [7] The following journals are or were published by Kowsar.