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[-] torknorggren@lemm.ee 87 points 1 year ago

In my discipline we only pay if we want the article to be open access. Are there journals that charge $1000 and still put articles behind a paywall?

[-] Mana@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

It’s $3000 for Association of Horticultural Scientists

[-] _bac@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

High impact factor journal are among those that ask fees depending on number of pages and figures. Or at least they used to when I used to do academic research

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, I’ve got a paper that’s just about ready for submission, and if the journal accepts it for publication, we pay ~3k USD, so about $4k CAD.

[-] s0ykaf@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i wonder if that keeps researchers from developing economies from becoming impactful, because $3k is like 15 months of a minimum wage in brazilian reais, and more than entire month's wages for 99.9% of our professors

edit: for the humanities this seems especially bad, it kind of makes it sure that western social thought remains dominant since only you guys can actually pay for it

[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Oh absolutely. It's a huge issue, especially in humanities and social sciences, where the barrier of entry makes it so that almost all published research is conducted by certain populations on themselves. Some people call it "WEIRD" populations, meaning western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (though that "weird" terminology is a bit stinky... I'm looking at the "E" and "D"). Interestingly, China has now overtaken the US in publishing the most highly cited research of any country, though I think their advances are mostly in natural sciences and engineering.

There are also issues with how we qualify good quality or *academic * research. Again, this is especially the case in social sciences and humanities where the standards have been set by colonial researchers who had the means to run expensive studies on large samples. As a result, a lot of research methodologies and ways of knowing that don't align with the western colonial standards (e.g., qualitative research, narrative analysis) get discounted or written off entirely

[-] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Can confirm, I cannot even imagine paying for papers. Like why do you endure such an issue?

..Predatory journals?

[-] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I know, the big ones charge very high processing fees

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"Processing fees"

Ensuring the Docx file shows up right in PDF format.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well except a lot of the time it's LaTeX, and the journal already makes the authors check their tex files work with the journal's article class.

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