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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medical journals. Future Medicine publishes

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and full open access journals.

Business model

Future Medicine publishes

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

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. 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'' *''

Diabetes Management The term ''diabetes'' includes several different metabolic disorders that all, if left untreated, result in abnormally high concentration of a sugar called glucose in the blood. Diabetes mellitus type 1 results when the pancreas no longer produces ...

'' *'' Imaging in Medicine'' *'' International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology'' *'' Interventional Cardiology'' *'' Neuropsychiatry''

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