Bentham Science Publishers is a company that publishes scientific, technical, and medical journals and e-books. It publishes more than 100 subscription-based academic journals and over 150 open access journals. It is based at Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, and has operating units in the United States, Japan, China, India, and the Netherlands. More than 90 percent of the workforce is outsourced to Pakistan. Other outsource operations are in China, UK, USA, India and other countries. Its open access branch, Bentham Open Science, has received attention for its questionable peer-review practices.