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]
| 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 |
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.
List of journals
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.
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
- Annals of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
- Annals of Military and Health Sciences Research
- Archives of Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Archives of Critical Care Medicine
- Archives of Neuroscience
- Archives of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Archives of Razi Institute
- Archives of Trauma Research
- Asian Journal of Sports Medicine
- Dental Clinical and Experimental Journal
- Educational Research in Medical Sciences Journal
- Gene Cell Tissue
- Health Scope
- Hepatitis Monthly
- Hormozgan Medical Journal
- International Journal of Cancer Management
- International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
- International Journal of Health and Life Sciences
- International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction
- International Journal of Infection
- International Journal of Sport Studies for Health
- Iranian Journal of Orthodontics
- Iranian Journal of Pediatrics
- Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Iranian Journal of Radiology
- Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal
- Jentashapir Journal of Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Journal of Archives in Military Medicine
- Journal of Clinical Research in Paramedical Sciences
- Journal of Comprehensive Pediatrics
- Journal of Kermanshah University of Medical Science
- Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgical Sciences
- Journal of Skin and Stem Cell
- Jundishapur Journal of Chronic Disease Care
- Jundishapur Journal of Health Sciences
- Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology
- Jundishapur Journal of Natural Pharmaceutical Products
- Medical – Surgical Nursing Journal
- Middle East Journal of Rehabilitation and Health
- Modern Care Journal
- Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Annals
- Nephro-Urology Monthly
- Nursing Midwifery Studies
- Reports of Radiotherapy and Oncology
- Research in Cardiovascular Medicine
- Scimetr
- Shiraz E Medical Journal
- Social Pharmacy
- Strides in Development of Medical Education
- Thrita
- Trauma Monthly
- Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences