Almost all top journals are in the hands of just a few global players such as DeGruyter, Elsevier, Springer, Sage, and Oxford Journals. These companies have lur

Almost all top journals are in the hands of just a few global players such as DeGruyter, Elsevier, Springer, Sage, and Oxford Journals. These companies have lured independent journals into their traps by offering free Editorial Management Systems and other help to them or buying them. They have been doing that for many decades, with the result that there are only very few independent journals run by universities themselves left. We are trying to fight this by making our own open source journals, but it will take decades to replace to old, well-established journals if it happens at all. Until then, if you don't publish in a sizable number of firewalled/copyrighted top journals, your career will end at the postdoc level.