[4][5][6] As of December 2014[update], it offered 244 English-language open-access journals in the areas of science, technology, business, economy, and medicine.

[8] In 2014 there was a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, Advances in Anthropology, with the outgoing editor-in-chief saying of the publisher "For them it was only about making money.

[citation needed] SCIRP generated controversy in 2010 when it was found that its journals duplicated papers which had already been published elsewhere, without notification of or permission from the original author and of the copyright holder.

The study has been criticized for not taking into account the fact that 2010 was a year with an unusually low number of births with thyroid problems.

[6] The company has been included in a list of questionable open access publishers,[15][16] according to Jeffrey Beall's criteria.

First, it exists to exploit the author-pays Open Access model to generate revenue, and second, it serves as an easy place for foreign (chiefly Chinese) authors to publish overseas and increase their academic status."