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There is whole cottage industry of journals that will publish basically anything in exchange for a submission fee, being kept alive by desperate PhD students wh

by dagw 7y ago

There 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 ago
When it happened to me it was a "reputable" high-impact neuroscience journal, not Cross-stitch Monthly.
- dagw 7y ago
  Was it for open access? Lots of journals charge a fee if you want to make your paper generally available.
  - sideshowb 7y ago
    Yes, but they charge after acceptance, not before.
- deleted 7y ago
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- sideshowb 7y ago
  username checks out ;-)