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Bear in mind that a lot of papers are initially rejected by journals simply because the journals want another $99 submission fee.
by shatnersbassoon 7y ago
Bear in mind that a lot of papers are initially rejected by journals simply because the journals want another $99 submission fee.
- sideshowb 7y agoWow is that a thing? I have submitted to many journals and none wanted fees before acceptance.
- dagw 7y agoThere is whole cottage industry of journals that will publish basically anything in exchange for a submission fee, being kept alive by desperate PhD students who need a couple of more papers published so they can just get their degree and get out of there.
- shatnersbassoon 7y agoWhen it happened to me it was a "reputable" high-impact neuroscience journal, not Cross-stitch Monthly.
- shatnersbassoon 7y agoThis is certainly what used to happen - my experience was from 2007 so they might not be getting away with it any more.
- mattkrause 7y agoCerebral Cortex is the only (legit) neuro journal I know of that charges a submission fee. Are there others?
- glofish 7y agoI have never heard of submission fees. There is plenty wrong with the "scientific publication" process as it is firmly rooted in the 19th-century mentality, but submission fees are not among the problems.
- shatnersbassoon 7y agoNot having heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist.
- dekhn 7y agoOoh, wait until you have to struggle to pony up $5K for color figures in a major journal! Note: $5K is a lot for a researcher.