OMICS Publishing Group is a predatory publisher of open access academic journals.[1][2][3][4][5][6][9] It started publishing its first journal in 2008.[8] By 2015, it claimed over 700 journals, although about half of them were defunct.[9] Its subsidiaries include iMedPub LTD, Conference Series LLC LTD, SciTechnol, and Pulsus Group. Other organisations linked to OMICS are EuroSciCon Ltd, Allied Academies, Trade Science Inc, and Meetings International.[11][12]