4 ms·
Article authors often pay as well. Either directly because the journal is a science-tabloid or because the authors want to make their work accessible to all. Or
by ta988 6y ago
Article authors often pay as well. Either directly because the journal is a science-tabloid or because the authors want to make their work accessible to all. Or indirectly through the indirect cost the universities are taking from grant agencies to pay for their confidential agreements with publishers. Try to do a FOIA of a state university to get that information you will see how hard they will fight the fact that they get scammed.
Authors write because this is how you justify that you are really working, be it for your university, department or your grant agency. Also you want others to build upon your work, but academics would publish a lot less if it was not for the huge pressure from funders and employers (increasing numbers is all that count for many of them).
- jrochkind1 6y agoRight. Peer review is also essential to the production of research articles. And is done largely by the same people who are writing articles; but they are incentivized non-monetarily to write articles, but not as much to review. To restate my point perhaps more clearly: If reviewing were rewarded/expected as part of one's role at a university, department, or grant agency similarly to authorship, that would do far more to incentivize it than paying a relatively modest amount for a review.