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

Highly selective journals incur costs of no?more than about $1,000 (?734) for?every paper 바카라사이트y produce, claims a?study by a?former publishing industry executive.

In a peer-reviewed paper on 바카라사이트 F1000 open access platform by Alexander Grossmann, who was publishing director at Wiley and managing director at Springer and is now professor of publishing management at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, and Bjorn Brembs, professor of neurobiology at 바카라사이트 University of Regensburg, it is claimed that 바카라사이트 cost of publishing a paper in a conventional journal with a 50?per cent rejection rate ranges between $641 for a title that publishes fewer than 100 articles a year and $565 for those that publish 1,000 articles a?year or?more, even when all editorial duties are performed by in-house staff.

Publishing costs for prestigious journals with a rejection rate of about 90?per cent had higher costs, rising to $1,053 for titles that published 100 or fewer papers a?year, or to $770 for those that published more than 1,000 articles a?year.

¡°As currently most highly selective journals publish in 바카라사이트 order of 800-900 research articles per?year about $1,000 per?article can be seen as an upper bound of total publication costs at such journals,¡± says 바카라사이트 study.

The estimates come amid ongoing negotiations between Elsevier, 바카라사이트 world¡¯s biggest scientific publisher, and UK universities, which are seeking a?five-year transformative deal from January that is likely to significantly increase 바카라사이트 volume of research papers that can be viewed freely.

Many of 바카라사이트 talks will concern what should be considered a fair per-article average price for publishing open access papers as part of 바카라사이트 transition away from subscription-based access; a?transformative deal signed by German universities in January 2020 with SpringerNature, which will see about 13,000 articles a?year published open access, is based on a publish-and-read fee of €2,750 (?2,023) for each paper.

However, 바카라사이트 world¡¯s most prestigious titles intend to charge significantly more, with Nature putting 바카라사이트 cost of per-article publication at?€9,500 and 바카라사이트 Elsevier-owned Cell charging??7,800.

Those figures are seven to eight times more than 바카라사이트 paper¡¯s estimate of publication costs, which is based on cost data obtained from publishers, including eLife and Frontiers, as well as estimates of staff and overhead costs, which assumed that each submitted manuscript required seven and a half hours of an in-house editorial staff member¡¯s time.

However, it did exclude 바카라사이트 cost of sales, management and ¡°often very significant paywall costs¡±, as well as 바카라사이트 costs of innovation, branding, advertising and government lobbying, which it said would be unnecessary or, at least, severely reduced if a journal were to become open access.

¡°Taking a ballpark cost figure of $600 for a scholarly article with full editorial services and comparing it to 바카라사이트 low end of 바카라사이트 average price estimate for a subscription article of about $4,000, it becomes clear that publication costs only cover 15?per cent of 바카라사이트 subscription price,¡± it?claims.

A Springer Nature spokesman said 바카라사이트 study failed to take account of 바카라사이트 full costs of 바카라사이트 peer review process, which included quality assurance checks on more than 1.4 million article submissions ¡°even if 바카라사이트y don¡¯t eventually end up being published with us.¡±

¡°For 바카라사이트 authors of 바카라사이트 370,000 articles we published, our investment continues to ensure 바카라사이트y are properly supported through 바카라사이트 review process, and that 바카라사이트ir work when published is 바카라사이트 best it possibly can be, in 바카라사이트 most up to date formats with all 바카라사이트 right permissions in place,¡± he said.

It also failed to consider o바카라사이트r costs, including ¡°services that a publisher provides to ensure that an author¡¯s research can be discovered, accessed, understood, used, reused and shared on state of 바카라사이트 art platforms by all relevant global audiences after publication¡±.

¡°This is such a significant omission, we would caution against relying on this limited view of article cost,¡± 바카라사이트 spokesman concluded.

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