Medcrave Predatory Publisher Hoax

What Medcrave Predatory Publisher Hoax does

MedCrave Group is a privately held, for-profit open access scientific publishing company founded in 2014 and operating through MedCrave Group Kft, a Hungarian-registered entity with operational offices in Edmond, Oklahoma (USA), Budapest (Hungary), New Delhi and Hyderabad (India), and Barcelona (Spain). The company publishes a portfolio of more than 35 peer-reviewed open access journals spanning medical specialties (orthopedics, immunology, dermatology, ophthalmology, anesthesia), life sciences (aquaculture, marine biology, proteomics), public health, hydrology, and interdisciplinary fields, plus a separate eBooks division. All content is published under Creative Commons licensing and made freely accessible to readers worldwide, with articles archived via PORTICO and indexed across Crossref, ORCiD, iThenticate, BASE, Scilit, OCLC WorldCat, ROAD, Sherpa Romeo, CEEOL, and CAS.

The underlying platform is an open access digital publishing system built around standard scholarly infrastructure integrations: Crossref for DOI assignment, Similarity Check, and CrossMark versioning; iThenticate for plagiarism screening on all submissions; ORCiD for persistent author identifiers; and PORTICO for long-term digital preservation. Manuscripts flow through an online submission portal into an editorial workflow managed by named editorial boards and associate editors, culminating in typesetting, DOI assignment, and publication in bi-monthly or tri-monthly journal cycles. The company publicly lists 2,986 published articles and 103 eBooks as of the homepage footer.

MedCrave's entire revenue base is generated through Article Processing Charges (APCs) paid by authors upon acceptance, with no advertising, subscription, grant, or institutional funding. Pricing is set per article type — ranging from $899 / €873 for Letters to Editor, Opinions, and Short Communications to $1,900 / €1,845 for Research Articles (with case reports and review articles in between). Waivers are offered on a case-by-case basis to authors from low- and middle-income economies. Customer acquisition relies on indexed journal listings, editor-recruiter networks, media partnerships with universities and professional societies (Karolinska Institutet, Chiang Mai Medical University, Naresuan University, Universiti Putra Malaysia, SEDAR, among others), and minimal social media presence (Twitter @medcraveonline). No external funding rounds, acquisitions, M&A activity, or executive hires were disclosed.

Name

Medcrave Predatory Publisher Hoax

Legal name

MedCrave Group

Website

https://medcraveonline.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

MedCrave Group is a for-profit open access scientific publisher operating 35+ peer-reviewed journals across medical and life sciences, generating revenue solely from article processing charges paid by authors, with offices in the US, Hungary, India, and Spain.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Open Access Scientific Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120), Periodical Publishers (51312), Book Publishers (513130)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ), Medical, Clinical & Biomedical Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAB), Life Sciences (Biology, Ecology, Agriculture) Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAC)

Keywords

• Open access publishing
• Scientific journals
• Article processing charges
• Peer review services
• Academic publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Edmond

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Article Processing Charges (APC): MedCrave is a for-profit open access publishing company that generates all revenue through manuscript processing fees charged to authors at the time of publication. The company does not receive governmental, educational, or charitable funding and does not sell paid advertisements. Refund policies apply for cancellations within 24 hours (full refund minus processing fee), within 3 days if no DOI allocated (50% refund), and for incorrect/extra payments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

MedCrave operates a for-profit open access scientific publishing platform that publishes peer-reviewed journals and eBooks across medical, life sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. Authors pay article processing charges (APCs) ranging from $899 to $1,900 per manuscript to publish in journals spanning 35+ disciplines, while readers access all content freely online without subscription fees.

Product overview

MedCrave is an open access publishing platform offering a portfolio of peer-reviewed journals and eBooks across multiple scientific disciplines. The platform operates as a for-profit open access publisher funded solely through article processing charges, providing journals in fields including immunology, orthopedics, rheumatology, public health, hydrology, marine biology, aquaculture, and anesthesia/critical care. All content is freely accessible under Creative Commons licensing. The International Journal of Hydrology (IJH) demonstrates the scope with publications spanning from groundwater quality analysis to hydrological modeling using tools like HEC-HMS. The platform integrates with ORCiD for author identification, iThenticate for plagiarism verification, and Crossref services for content metadata and versioning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MOJ Journals: Series of medical and scientific open access journals under the MOJ prefix (e.g., MOJ Immunology, MOJ Orthopedics & Rheumatology, MOJ Public Health, MOJ Surgery, MOJ Proteomics & Bioinformatics)
• MedCrave eBooks
• Journal of Aquaculture & Marine Biology (JAMB)
• International Journal of Hydrology (IJH)
• Journal of Anesthesia & Critical Care: Open Access (JACCOA)

Products and services

• MedCrave Online Publishing Platform Open access online publishing platform providing journals and eBooks of original research and case studies with comprehensive peer review process, plagiarism checking, DOI assignment, and permanent digital archiving.
• MOJ Immunology Open access journal publishing immunology research and information to enhance access to medicine for developing countries.
• MOJ Orthopedics & Rheumatology (MOJOR) Medical journal covering bones, arthritis, rheumatism, osteoarthritis and other bone diseases with content including research articles, reviews, rapid communications, case reports and editorials.
• MOJ Public Health (MOJPH) International multidisciplinary peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on global health, disease prevention and treatment, health promotion, population health analysis, biostatistics, and health economics.
• International Journal of Hydrology (IJH) Peer-reviewed open access journal covering hydrology topics including distribution and movement of water, hydrologic cycle, water resources, environmental watershed sustainability, hydrometeorology, hydrogeology, and water quality.
• Journal of Aquaculture & Marine Biology (JAMB) Open access peer-reviewed journal focused on aquaculture and marine biology including farming of aquatic organisms, aquaculture nutrition and physiology, water quality, marine ecology, and marine pollution.
• Journal of Anesthesia & Critical Care: Open Access (JACCOA) Peer-reviewed open access journal publishing original research, review articles, case reports, and commentaries related to anesthesia, perioperative care, critical care medicine, and pain management.
• MedCrave eBooks Digital book publishing service covering scientific and medical topics including Complementary and Alternative Medicine and other disciplines, operating under the separate domain medcraveebooks.com.
• Article Processing Charges (APC) Publication Service Author-facing publication fee service where manuscript processing charges are paid at time of publication, ranging from $899 (Letter to Editor, Opinion, Short Communication) to $1,900 (Research Article), with waivers available for authors from low and middle income economies.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2,986 published articles and 103 published eBooks publicly listed on the platform

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Technological Institute of PUT Sakarya (TIP), TurkeyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of MedCrave Online Journal of Immunology. The partnership provides institutional endorsement and cross-promotion of the journal to Turkish academic audiences.
• Thai Stroke Society, ThailandminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of Advances in Obesity, Weight Management & Control journal. Provides institutional affiliation for journal promotion in Thailand.
• Chiang Mai Medical University, ThailandminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of Journal of Human Virology & Retrovirology (multiple affiliations).
• Naresuan University, ThailandminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of Journal of Human Virology & Retrovirology.
• Cryobank Association of UkraineminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of Gastroenterology & Hepatology: Open Access journal, with cross-promotion to Ukrainian cryobank community.
• Georgian Technical University, GeorgiaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of MOJ Ecology & Environmental Sciences journal.
• Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), MalaysiaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of MOJ Food Processing & Technology journal.
• The University of Western Australia (UWA), AustraliaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of Hospice & Palliative Medicine International Journal.
• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), BrazilminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of International Journal of Hydrology (multiple affiliations).
• Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina (IFSC), BrazilminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of International Journal of Hydrology.
• Western University, ThailandminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of Journal of Human Virology & Retrovirology.
• ICN Health Foods, USAminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of MedCrave Online Journal of Public Health.
• Karolinska Institutet, SwedenminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of MOJ Orthopedics & Rheumatology journal.
• Sociedad Española de Anestesiología y Reanimación (SEDAR) / Anestesia Dolor, SpainminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a media partner and supporter of Journal of Anesthesia and Critical Care: Open Access (JACCOA).
• PORTICOcoreTechnology or IntegrationPORTICO provides permanent digital archiving of MedCrave article metadata according to their standards. Articles are stored digitally to ensure long-term preservation.
• iThenticate (via Crossref)coreTechnology or IntegrationMedCrave uses iThenticate for similarity/plagiarism checking on all submitted manuscripts as part of its quality control process before peer review.
• CrossrefcoreTechnology or IntegrationCrossref provides DOI reference numbers, Similarity Check (plagiarism detection), CrossMark content maintenance, and Cited-by citation tracking services for MedCrave articles.
• ORCiDcoreTechnology or IntegrationMedCrave Group Kft is a participating organization of the ORCiD proposal. Authors are required to present their ORCiD IDs at submission when available, and Crossref automatically updates ORCiD records with published article information.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• PLOS (Public Library of Science): Nonprofit open access pioneer publishing peer-reviewed journals across life sciences and medicine using an APC model; serves the same author pool as MedCrave but with substantially higher prestige and indexing.
• Hindawi (Wiley): Large open access publisher (now part of Wiley) with hundreds of peer-reviewed journals funded by APCs — a comparable OA publisher with a substantially larger scale and stronger institutional relationships.
• SAGE Open: Open access journal from SAGE Publishing covering a broad range of disciplines with APC funding; competes for the same multidisciplinary academic author pool as MedCrave's MOJ-series journals.
• BioMed Central (BMC, Springer Nature): Large established open access publisher of peer-reviewed journals across biomedical and life sciences; competes for the same medical-researcher author base as MedCrave with deeper indexing and institutional relationships.

Emerging players

• PeerJ: Open access publisher of peer-reviewed journals in life sciences, medicine, and computer science using APCs; overlaps with MedCrave in OA scholarly journals with a similar pay-to-publish model but with stronger editorial reputation.
• Cogitatio Press: Open access academic publisher running a smaller portfolio of peer-reviewed journals funded by APCs; comparable to MedCrave in being a smaller OA publisher targeting niche scientific communities.

Direct peers

• Dove Medical Press (Taylor & Francis): Open access medical publisher running a portfolio of peer-reviewed clinical journals funded by APCs — directly comparable to MedCrave's medical-journal offering in target author and pricing model.
• MDPI: Large Basel-based open access publisher running hundreds of peer-reviewed journals across scientific and medical disciplines funded by author APCs — the closest direct functional peer to MedCrave in scale, model, and journal breadth.
• Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP): Open access publisher widely flagged in predatory-publisher discussions; operates an APC-funded portfolio of journals across scientific disciplines with a comparable scale and author-processing-charge model to MedCrave.
• Frontiers Media: Swiss open access publisher with a large portfolio of peer-reviewed scientific journals operating on an APC model; directly comparable to MedCrave in target author base and journal title breadth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/medcraveonline
• Facebookfacebook.com/607778282623936
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/4828170

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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