It has also been suggested that OMICS provides fake lists of scientists as journal editors to create an impression of scientific legitimacy, even though they are not involved in any review or editing process.[1][2] One such editor-in-chief was contacted by Science, and he stated that he had never handled any papers;[3] in an interview with The Hindu, another said he had not been informed of his purported editorship.[4] Other academics have said that OMICS published articles unaltered in spite of their request for revisions.[5] The company has also been slow to remove the names of editorial board members who requested to terminate their relationship with OMICS activities, in some cases taking almost two years.[6][10] One author received an invoice for $2,700 after her paper was accepted; this fee was not mentioned in the email message OMICS sent her to solicit a submission.[7] In 2012, while one OMICS journal rejected a paper after the reviewer noticed it was plagiarized from one of his own co-authored papers, another OMICS journal published the same paper later that year. When the reviewer again pointed this out, the paper was removed from OMICS' website in 2014, but no official retraction was posted.[25] In 2013, an OMICS journal accepted a bogus and obviously flawed publication submitted as part of a sting operation by Science.[26][27] Critics assert that the main purpose of the publisher is commercial rather than academic.[4][11]