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==Blackwell Publishing history==
Blackwell Publishing was formed by the 2001 merger of two [[Oxford]]-based [[academic publishing]] companies, Blackwell Science,
The merger created the world's leading learned society publisher.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Change Is Very Exciting| access-date = 2019-05-05| url = http://www.infotoday.com/IT/sep03/poynder.shtml |first=Richard|last=Poynder|date=September 2003|website=Information Today}}</ref> The group then acquired BMJ Books from the [[BMJ Publishing Group]] (publisher of the ''[[British Medical Journal]]'') in 2004.<ref>{{cite journal|doi = 10.1136/bmj.328.7444.854-d|title = BMJ Publishing Group sells its books department|journal = [[British Medical Journal]]|year = 2004|volume = 328|issue = 7444|page = 854|first = Owen|last = Dyer|pmc = 387509}}</ref> Blackwell published over 805 journals and 650 text and reference books in 2006, across a wide range of academic, medical, and professional subjects.<ref>{{cite web |title=Blackwell Timeline |url=https://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/Blackwell.htm |work=The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition |author= Mary H. Munroe |year=2004 |via= Northern Illinois University }}</ref> On November 17, 2006, [[John Wiley & Sons]] announced it had "entered into a definitive agreement to acquire" Blackwell Publishing.<ref>[http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/wiley.pdf Wiley to Acquire Blackwell Publishing (Holdings) Ltd.], John Wiley & Sons, Inc., November 17, 2006</ref> The acquisition was completed in February 2007, at a purchase price of £572 million. Blackwell Publishing was merged into Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to create Wiley-Blackwell.<ref name=aboutWB/> From June 30, 2008, the journals previously on Blackwell Synergy were delivered through [[Wiley InterScience]].
==Controversy==
In April, 2022, the journal [[Science (journal)|''Science'']] reported that a Ukrainian company, International Publisher Ltd., run by Ksenia Badziun, operates a Russian website where academics can purchase authorships in soon to be published academic papers. During the 2 year period analyzed by researchers, they found that at least 419 articles "appeared to match manuscripts that later appeared in dozens of different journals" and that "More than 100 of these identified papers were published in 68 journals run by established publishers, including [[Elsevier]], [[Oxford University Press]], [[Springer Nature]], [[Taylor & Francis]], [[Wolters Kluwer]], and Wiley-Blackwell." Wiley-Blackwell claimed that they were examining the specific papers that were identified and brought to their attention.<ref>{{cite news|title=Russian site peddles paper authorship in reputable journals for up to $5000 a pop|date=6 April 2022|author=AMBYDALMEET SINGH CHAWLA|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/russian-website-peddles-authorships-linked-reputable-journals|work=Science}}</ref>
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