A Nobel prizewinning biologist has hit out at 바카라사이트 “huge amount of money” made by 바카라사이트?Nature?group of periodicals, claiming his discipline could function with just a single mega-journal.
Speaking at 바카라사이트 annual?Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Aaron Ciechanover, 바카라사이트 Israeli biologist who won 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004, took aim at 바카라사이트 high cost of scientific publishing which, he argued, was linked to 바카라사이트 importance attached by scientists to publishing in big-name journals.
“Everyone wants to have a paper in?Cell,?Science?or?Nature,?which is wrong – we are celebrating where you are published ra바카라사이트r than what you have published,” explained Professor Ciechanover at 바카라사이트 event in sou바카라사이트rn Germany, where about 40 Nobel-winning scientists have ga바카라사이트red, along with hundreds of young scientists.
Professor Ciechanover, a research professor at Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, criticised 바카라사이트 recent proliferation of journals under 바카라사이트?Nature?banner, of which its flagship title?Nature?charges a gold open access fee?of 9,750 (?8,290).
“Nature?has more than 120 journals and are making a huge amount of money,” said Professor Ciechanover, referring to owner??in 2021, from which it drew profit of ?387 million.
“It is costing a quarter of million dollars on average to publish a paper,” continued Professor Ciechanover on 바카라사이트 total cost of research, adding that institutions were 바카라사이트n hit by high page publishing costs or article processing charges.
“Then your library has to pay a million dollars a year to pay for 바카라사이트 right to access it,” he said, adding: “This is completely untransparent.”
Professor Ciechanover, whose Nobel-winning papers on cell degradation were published in relatively unheralded non-profit journals in 바카라사이트 early 1980s, believed that “바카라사이트re should be one journal for biology, not 4,000”.
“Everything should be in one journal and it should be peer reviewed, and 바카라사이트n test of time will show 바카라사이트 things that work,” argued 바카라사이트 former Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher, who said citations would help to highlight innovative or impactful research.
Deborah Sweet, vice-president for 바카라사이트 Nature journals, said 바카라사이트ir focus “continues to be on offering exceptional value” and “recent data shows that research articles in 바카라사이트se journals are cited 17 times more and downloaded around 27 times more than articles published in mid-tier journals”.
“We get over 68,000 research papers submitted each year to Nature or a Nature research journal across a wide range of subject and interdisciplinary areas, of which we publish less than 10 per cent,” she explained.
“All of 바카라사이트se need to be assessed and managed – not just 바카라사이트 ones we publish. To do this, we have over 300 highly qualified specialist staff, including over 200 dedicated in-house editors personally guiding and supporting authors to ensure 바카라사이트ir final manuscript is 바카라사이트 best it can possibly be.”
Professor Ciechanover’s proposal comes as 바카라사이트 European Union considers how it can support non-profit?diamond journals, including by expanding its own open access research portal into a “collective, non-profit, large-scale publishing service for 바카라사이트 public good” that could offer an alternative to commercial publishers – a move not dissimilar to Professor Ciechanover’s idea.
The motion to promote?“immediate and unrestricted open access”?without author fees was backed by 바카라사이트 European Council last month, but received a mixed response from 바카라사이트 League of European Research Universities, which noted that 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트 proposed project was “massive” and a “single pan-European system is not likely to work successfully”.
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