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[disclaimer, work for Digital Science, whose parent company owns the parent (or just merged?) company that produces Nature, my own thoughts etc.] Nature have p
by IanCal 9y ago
[disclaimer, work for Digital Science, whose parent company owns the parent (or just merged?) company that produces Nature, my own thoughts etc.]
Nature have paid editors who also review articles before they go out for peer review, which means they have fairly obvious costs per article submitted (on top of other things like organising peer review). However, you don't pay to submit, you only pay if you're accepted. Nature accepts, I think, about 5% of the articles submitted to them. That means that for every fixed cost per submission the cost per paper published is 20x higher.
- remus 9y agoIs paying editors typical for a journal? Id guess Nature is comparatively well off financially, so would smaller journals be able to afford to pay editors in the same way?
- IanCal 9y agoIn general (as far as I'm aware), no, it's not usually the case.
- IanCal 9y agoI'd just like to clarify this: > However, you don't pay to submit, you only pay if you're accepted. I should have been clearer that the main Nature journal does not, I believe, charge for accepted papers as it charges readers instead. However the general setup is that with open access papers people pay only if accepted.