> It seems it earns by taking $5,200 for "processing charges" from every submitter No, only published articles. > Still, it is still somewhat unclear to me wh

> It seems it earns by taking $5,200 for "processing charges" from every submitter No, only published articles. > Still, it is still somewhat unclear to me why would a serious cosmologist publish there It's an extremely well known, high 'ranking' journal if you go by IF as your figures show. There aren't many higher they could have published in, and they're extremely competitive.