Allied Academies, founded by NC professors, now under FTC-sanctioned Indian parent company
An academic publisher called Allied Academies, founded by two Western Carolina University professors in 1996, now operates as a subsidiary of OMICS Group — an Indian company that was ordered by a federal court to pay $50.1 million in 2019 for deceptive academic publishing practices in an FTC case. Despite this, many professors, including in North Carolina, continue to publish in their journals. The article also notes the prominence of Robert Tian in both Allied Academies and the North American Business Press publishing networks, raising questions about whether these groups are part of a wider network of questionable academic publishing operations.
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An academic publisher founded by two Western Carolina University professors three decades ago now operates as a subsidiary of an Indian company that a federal court ordered to pay $50.1 million in 2019 in a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case over deceptive academic publishing practices.
And many current professors, including in North Carolina, still publish in their journals.
Robert Tian appears prominently in both the Allied Academies and the North American Business Press publishing networks. It is unclear what the relationship between these two large publishing groups may be or if they are both part of a wider network.
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