 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 PubMed, 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 "Science" as part of a "sting" to test the effectiveness of the peer-review processes of open access journals ("Who's Afraid of Peer Review?