It started its first open-access journal, the Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics, in 2008.[1] In 2012, OMICS Group had more than 200 journal titles, about 60% of which had no content.[2] By 2015, it claimed over 700 titles, but about half of them were defunct.[3] Several OMICS journals have names similar to existing publications. For instance, BioMed Central established the Journal of Biomedical Science in 1994,[16] while OMICS established the Journal of Biomedical Sciences in 2012.[17]