PRO-SCIENCE
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- Overall, we rate BMC Biotechnology as a Pro-Science open-source journal. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to a clean fact check record.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: PRO-SCIENCE
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: United Kingdom
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Organization/Foundation
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
History
BMC Biotechnology is a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by BioMed Central (BMC) covering research on biotechnology. According to its about page, “BMC Biotechnology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on technologies and methodologies of relevance for the manipulation or optimization of biological molecules or organisms, the environment, cellular and tissue engineering, or the pharmaceutical/biomedical, agricultural and biotechnological industries.”
Founded in 2000, BioMed Central, or BMC, is a United Kingdom-based, for-profit scientific open-access publisher. They publish more than 300 journals that are entirely online. According to their about page, “Our leading research journals include selective titles such as BMC Biology, BMC Medicine, Genome Biology and Radiation Ocology, academic journals such as Journal of Hematology & Oncology, Radiation Ocology, and Microbiome, and the BMC series, 65 inclusive journals focused on the needs of individual research communities. We also partner with leading institutions and societies to publish journals on their behalf.”
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Funded by / Ownership
BioMed Central is owned by Springer Nature, an academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group’s Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education. The company reported revenues of over 1 billion USD.
Analysis / Bias
BMC Biotechnology is an open-access journal that publishes information and research related to biotechnology. The journal primarily publishes research like this: Comparison of vector elements and process conditions in transient and stable suspension HEK293 platforms using SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain as a model protein.
BioMed Central (BMC) is an open-access publisher of scientific journals. There are two types of Open Access Journals, legitimate and predatory, both of which charge the author for publication. Predatory journals often lack peer review and are generally considered not credible. BioMed Central is considered a legitimate, open-access publisher that is frequently indexed in PubMed. However, BMC journals have been criticized for retracting numerous studies due to fake peer reviews or poor methodology.
Although BMC has retracted some studies in other publications that were found to be of poor methodology and not thoroughly peer-reviewed, BMC Biotechnology publishes credible scientific studies that are factual and appropriately peer-reviewed.
Failed Fact Checks
- None by BMC Biotechnology; however, BioMed Central has.
Overall, we rate BMC Biotechnology as a Pro-Science open-source journal. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to a clean fact check record. (D. Van Zandt 06/13/2024)
Source: https://bmcbiotechnol.biomedcentral.com/
Last Updated on June 13, 2024 by Media Bias Fact Check
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