Dove Medical Press is an

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and

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s, with offices in

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(United Kingdom),

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(United States), and

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(New Zealand). In September 2017, Dove Medical Press was acquired by the

Taylor and Francis Group Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, Routledge, F1000 Research or Dovepress. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kin ...

. As an open access publisher, Dove charges a publication fee to authors or their institutions or funders. This charge allows Dove to recover its editorial and production costs and to create a pool of funds that can be used to provide fee waivers for authors from lesser developed countries. Articles published are available via an interface following the

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, a set of uniform standards promulgated by the

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allowing

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on archive holdings. Dove is a member of the

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, the

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, and the

. , it published a total of 135 journals, although 43 have now ceased publication. In 2012, the company was included on

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of predatory open access publishers, but was later removed.

History

Dove Medical Press is a privately held company founded in 2003 by Tim Hill, a former managing director of Adis International and five other founders. , 42 of the 131 journals were indexed in

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, while 30 of the 131 journals had fewer than 10 articles. In 2013, the Dove Medical Press journal '' Drug Design, Development and Therapy'' accepted a false and intentionally flawed paper created and submitted by an investigative journalist for ''

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'' as part of a "

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" to test the effectiveness of the peer-review processes of open access journals (''

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''). The

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terminated Dove's membership as a result of the incident. After satisfying The

Membership Committee that new editorial and peer review procedures were in place to address the concerns raised during its investigation, Dove Medical Press was reinstated as a full member of

in September 2015. In September 2017, Dove Medical Press was acquired by the

Taylor & Francis Group Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, Routledge, F1000 Research or Dovepress. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kin ...

Copyright

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license.

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History

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