e-Century Publishing Corporation

e-Century Publishing Corporation is an American academic publishing organization headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. Its business is centered on publishing open-access scientific journals rather than consumer books, newspapers, or general-interest periodicals. The publisher is associated with a portfolio of seventeen journals covering areas of biomedical and clinical research. According to reference material about the organization, eleven of these journals have been indexed in the Web of Science, giving the portfolio visibility within established scholarly citation and discovery infrastructure. Among the journals associated with e-Century are the American Journal of Translational Research, the American Journal of Cancer Research, the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, and the American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. These titles span translational medicine, oncology, clinical research, pathology, nuclear medicine, and molecular imaging. Their common orientation is toward research communication in the life sciences and medicine, with open access serving as the primary distribution model. The publisher has also been discussed in relation to debates about the quality controls and business practices of open-access scholarly publishing. It was included on Beall's list, a formerly maintained compilation of publishers and journals that librarian Jeffrey Beall identified as potentially predatory or otherwise questionable. Beall's list was discontinued and removed from public access in 2017, and inclusion on it should be understood as a disputed external assessment rather than a legal finding or definitive institutional judgment. One e-Century journal, the American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, was involved in the 2013 “Who's Afraid of Peer Review?” sting operation organized by Science journalist John Bohannon. The journal rejected the deliberately flawed manuscript submitted as part of that investigation. This result distinguished the journal's response from the many journals that accepted the fabricated paper, although the episode itself became part of wider criticism and discussion about peer review in open-access publishing. Publicly available reference material provides limited information about the company's founding, ownership, leadership, financial performance, and current operating structure. Its identifiable public role is that of a specialized scientific publisher maintaining a multi-title open-access journal portfolio, with a particular concentration in biomedical and medical research.

e-Century Publishing Corporation is identified as an academic publisher based in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Available reference material does not establish a founding year, founder, corporate ownership structure, or detailed chronology of its development. The organization is known primarily through its publication of a portfolio of seventeen open-access scientific journals. The journal portfolio is concentrated in biomedical and medical research. Representative titles include the American Journal of Translational Research, the American Journal of Cancer Research, the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, and the American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The subjects covered by these journals include translational research, cancer science, clinical medicine, pathology, nuclear medicine, and molecular imaging. The portfolio therefore places e-Century within the specialized scholarly communications sector, where publishers distribute peer-reviewed research and provide electronic access to journal content. A reported measure of the portfolio's academic visibility is its inclusion of eleven journals in the Web of Science. Indexing in a major citation database can support discoverability and citation tracking, although it does not by itself establish the quality of every article or the overall standing of a publisher. The available material does not identify the exact dates on which individual journals entered or left the index. The publisher's reputation has also been shaped by criticism surrounding open-access publishing standards. It was included on Beall's list, which was maintained by librarian Jeffrey Beall as a list of publishers and journals he regarded as potentially predatory. Beall's list was removed in 2017. Inclusion was an external and contested classification, not a court ruling or regulatory determination, and the available references do not provide a detailed response from e-Century. In 2013, the American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging was one of the journals involved in the “Who's Afraid of Peer Review?” investigation. The operation submitted a scientifically defective, fabricated manuscript to a range of open-access journals to test editorial and peer-review procedures. The e-Century journal rejected the paper. The result was notable because the investigation found that many other journals accepted the submission, but it formed part of a broader public debate about peer review, editorial screening, and the rapid expansion of open-access publishing. Beyond its journal portfolio, public reference material offers little verified information about e-Century's internal management, commercial performance, editorial staffing, acquisitions, or strategic changes. Its documented history is therefore best characterized as the operation of a Madison-based open-access scientific publishing house with a substantial biomedical journal portfolio and a public profile shaped both by indexing claims and by controversy over publisher evaluation.

• 2017

  Beall's list is taken down

  [1]E-Century Publishing Corporationen.wikipedia.org

  The publisher had previously appeared on Beall's list, which was removed from public access in 2017.

• 2013

  Journal participates in the “Who's Afraid of Peer Review?” investigation

  [1]E-Century Publishing Corporationen.wikipedia.org

  The American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging rejected the deliberately flawed manuscript submitted during the peer-review sting operation.

A specialized open-access scholarly publisher focused primarily on biomedical, clinical, pathology, oncology, and related medical research journals.

• Biomedical research journal

  American Journal of Translational Research

  An open-access scientific journal associated with e-Century's biomedical publishing portfolio. Its subject area connects basic laboratory findings with clinical applications and medical research, reflecting the publisher's emphasis on translational and clinical science.

• Oncology research journal

  American Journal of Cancer Research

  An open-access journal focused on cancer research. It represents the oncology segment of e-Century's portfolio and publishes research intended for an international scientific and medical readership.

• Clinical and experimental medicine journal

  International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

  An open-access medical research journal covering clinical and experimental work. It is one of the e-Century titles reported as indexed in the Web of Science.

• Pathology research journal

  International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology

  An open-access journal serving clinical and experimental pathology research. The title illustrates the publisher's concentration on specialist biomedical disciplines and is among the journals associated with Web of Science indexing.

• Nuclear medicine and imaging journal

  American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

  An open-access journal focused on nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. It became known outside its specialty in connection with the “Who's Afraid of Peer Review?” investigation, during which it rejected the fabricated manuscript submitted to test editorial review.

1. 1E-Century Publishing Corporationen.wikipedia.org
2. 2e-Century Publishing Corporation official websitee-century.org