What Imr Press does

IMR Press is an independent, privately held academic publisher headquartered in Singapore with a secondary office in Hangzhou, China, operating a portfolio of approximately nine peer-reviewed, open-access journals under Creative Commons Attribution licensing. Its journals span bioscience (Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, founded 1996), cardiovascular medicine (Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine), neuroscience (Journal of Integrative Neuroscience), nutrition (International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research), and — most recently — global health and hospital management (Global Health and Hospital Management, launched 2025). All titles are indexed in SCIE (Web of Science), Scopus, DOAJ, and MEDLINE/PubMed, with DOI assignment via Crossref and long-term preservation through CLOCKSS.

The company's core technology is the ProPub submission and peer-review management portal (imr.propub.com), which supports direct author manuscript submission, editorial workflow, and review tracking. Third-party integrations layer integrity controls onto the workflow: iThenticate for plagiarism detection, ImageTwin for image manipulation screening, and the STM Integrity Hub (rolled out across the portfolio in 2025) for broader publication-ethics checks. Supporting the journals are an education platform offering short video courses for early-career researchers and a webinar/interview content engine used for top-of-funnel author engagement.

IMR Press monetizes exclusively through Article Processing Charges (APCs) paid by authors upon acceptance, with waivers and discounts available to authors from Low and Middle Income Countries and to participants at sponsored conferences (e.g., Keystone Symposia). Go-to-market combines direct online submission through ProPub, active conference participation (Zhuhai, Keystone Symposia, and various specialty conferences), society partnerships (Chinese Nutrition Society, FANS, ZCMU, China Society of Geriatrics), and content marketing via the corporate website, webinars, and editorial-board interviews. The publisher is a member of OASPA, COPE, and STM, and operates without disclosed external venture or private-equity investment.

Name

Imr Press

Legal name

IMR Press

Website

https://imrpress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Short description

IMR Press is an independent Singapore-headquartered open-access academic publisher operating approximately nine peer-reviewed journals across bioscience, cardiovascular medicine, neuroscience, nutrition, and global health, monetizing via author-paid Article Processing Charges and serving researchers, editors, and learned societies globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (51312), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Medical, Clinical & Biomedical Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAB), Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK)

Keywords

• Academic journal publishing
• Open access publishing
• Peer reviewed journals
• Scholarly publishing services
• Article processing charges

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Article Processing Charges (APC): Authors pay Article Processing Charges upon acceptance of their manuscript for publication. The APC varies by journal. Discounts and waivers are available for authors from Low and Middle Income countries on a case-by-case basis.
2. APC Waivers and Discounts: Fee reductions offered to researchers from developing countries and participants at sponsored conferences who receive APC discounts

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

IMR Press publishes a portfolio of peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journals covering bioscience, neuroscience, cardiovascular medicine, nutrition research, and global health/hospital management under CC-BY licensing. Authors submit manuscripts via the proprietary ProPub platform, undergo peer review, and pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) upon acceptance, with waivers available for researchers from low- and middle-income countries. Journals are indexed in SCIE (Web of Science), Scopus, DOAJ, MEDLINE/PubMed, and registered with Crossref for DOI assignment.

Product overview

IMR Press is an international academic publisher operating a multi-journal platform across scientific disciplines. The core offering consists of peer-reviewed, open-access journals spanning bioscience (Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark), neuroscience (Journal of Integrative Neuroscience), cardiovascular medicine (Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine), nutrition (International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research), and health management (Global Health and Hospital Management). Supporting the journal portfolio are an online education platform providing courses for researchers and editors, and the ProPub submission portal for manuscript management and peer review. All journals operate under Creative Commons licensing and are aligned with COPE publication ethics standards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ProPub: Online submission and editorial management system used by IMR Press journals

Products and services

• Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark (FBL) International peer-reviewed open-access bioscience journal focused on cellular and molecular biology, publishing advances in biochemistry, biophysics, physiology, pathology, and biotechnology, with a 2025 Impact Factor of 4.1 and CiteScore of 5.7.
• Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine (RCM) International peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to publishing review papers and research on cardiovascular medicine including clinical, translational, and basic studies, with a 2025 Impact Factor of 2.2 and CiteScore of 3.1.
• Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (JIN) International peer-reviewed open-access journal publishing cutting-edge research in all areas of neuroscience including molecular, cellular, systems, and translational neuroscience, with a 2025 Impact Factor of 3.3 and CiteScore of 5.
• International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research (IJVNR) Peer-reviewed open-access international journal publishing nutrition research at molecular, cellular, biochemical, physiological, clinical, and population levels, with a 2025 Impact Factor of 3.0 and CiteScore of 6.7.
• Global Health and Hospital Management (GHHM) International peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to advancing research and practice in global health, healthcare services, and hospital management.
• Online Courses and Education Platform Educational platform offering step-by-step video courses for early-career researchers, journal editors, and medical publishing professionals covering topics like Informed Consent, How to Write Abstracts and Titles, and REB Approval.
• ProPub Submission Portal Proprietary online manuscript submission and peer review management system used by all IMR Press journals, allowing authors to submit manuscripts directly for peer review.

Quantifiable outcome

• Median 5 days from submission to initial decision
• +4 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular BiologycoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 13 January 2025Media partnership renewal with Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, a nonprofit organization convening 50-60 open peer-reviewed conferences annually across life-science topics. The partnership includes APC discounts for conference participants and collaborative efforts to advance scientific communication.
• OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership in OASPA demonstrates commitment to open access publishing standards and best practices.
• COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership and alignment with COPE guidelines for publication ethics. Journals like JIN and FBL are COPE members. IMR Press aligns publishing and ethical policies with international COPE standards.
• STM (Science, Technology and Medicine)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIMR Press became a member of STM in 2024/2025, indicating adherence to industry standards for scientific publishing.
• CrossrefcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Crossref for DOI assignment, metadata registration, and article citation linking.
• CLOCKSScoreTechnology or IntegrationParticipation in CLOCKSS (Controlled LOw-energy Permanent Web-based Archive) for digital preservation of published content.
• ResearchGateminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership for article visibility and discoverability on the ResearchGate academic network.
• iThenticatecoreTechnology or IntegrationUse of iThenticate for plagiarism and originality checking of manuscript submissions.
• ImageTwincoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration of ImageTwin image integrity review tool in the manuscript review process.
• Chinese Nutrition Society (CNS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration between IJVNR journal and Chinese Nutrition Society for joint publication initiatives in nutrition research.
• Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies (FANS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial publication partnership with FANS for the International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research.
• Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (ZCMU)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJIN is the Official Journal of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, with dedicated page for ZCMU content.
• Wenzhou Medical University Big One Health Development Research InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial Publication partnership with Wenzhou Medical University Big One Health Development Research Institute for Global Health and Hospital Management journal.
• Wenzhou Cross-Strait Big Health Development AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial Publication partnership for Global Health and Hospital Management journal.
• China Society of GeriatricsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic support partnership with China Society of Geriatrics for Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine journal.
• Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerJIN sponsors two awards (Best Talk and Best Poster) at SfNC 2025 Annual Meeting in Paris, with APC discounts for participants.
• Xiehe/PUMCHminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMedia partnership for content sharing and visibility.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Bentham Science: Bentham Science publishes peer-reviewed open-access journals and books across medical, pharmaceutical, and life-sciences, directly competing with IMR Press in the OA scholarly publishing category.
• Hindawi: Hindawi (now under Wiley) ran a large open-access journal program using APCs across multiple scientific disciplines, serving the same author profile as IMR Press with very similar monetization.
• Dove Medical Press: Dove Medical Press is an open-access publisher focused on medical and clinical journals with APC-based fees, directly comparable to IMR Press's cardiovascular, neuroscience, and biomedical titles.
• BioScientifica: BioScientifica is a society-connected publisher of bioscience journals including the well-known Bioscience journals portfolio, comparable in its bioscience journal focus to Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark.
• MDPI: MDPI is one of the largest open-access journal publishers globally with a wide multi-discipline journal portfolio using an APC revenue model, directly comparable in business model and target market to IMR Press.
• Frontiers Media: Frontiers operates a large portfolio of peer-reviewed open-access scientific journals across biosciences, medicine, and neuroscience using APCs, overlapping heavily with IMR Press's subject coverage and author base.

Broad incumbents

• Springer Nature (BMC): BMC, now part of Springer Nature, is the largest fully open-access journal publisher with a broad biomedicine and life-sciences portfolio; an incumbent peer competing with IMR Press across most disciplines.
• Wiley Open Access: Wiley's open-access journal program includes hundreds of OA titles across scientific disciplines, representing a broad incumbent with overlapping subject coverage to IMR Press.
• SAGE Open: SAGE Open is the open-access division of SAGE Publishing, one of the large established publishers offering similar OA journal services at much greater scale than IMR Press.
• Taylor & Francis (Cogent OA): Taylor & Francis operates the Cogent OA open-access journal portfolio spanning multiple disciplines, a large incumbent with comparable OA publishing infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ImrPress

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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