Publishing paper in top journal costs about $1,000, says study

Publishing charges are scandalous and prohibitive. There should be rules and a requirement for publishing houses to be transparent. The proliferation of journals everywhere shows how profitable this sector is but the overcharging is damaging the quality of the science.

Publishing charges are scandalous and prohibitive. There should be rules and a requirement for publishing houses to be transparent. The proliferation of journals everywhere shows how profitable this sector is but the overcharging is damaging the quality of the science.

And the willing referees still working for free!

The Springer Nature spokesman missed that part of our article where we explain that web hosting of course is included: 3. Content dissemination/archiving a. Web OA platform and hosting b. Long-term digital preservation (CLOCKSS/Portico, etc.) c. Distribution to indexing services (Scopus, PMC, DOAJ, etc.) He also missed how, if we didn't include submissions and rejections, the numbers would not change with rejection rate, so one does not even need to read the article to understand that also this aspect is of course included in our calculations. If this really is the best justification for their huge prices, we have already won.