[GOAL] Re: Who benefits from for-profit open access publishing? A case study of Hindawi and Egypt

2015-04-21 Thread Dana Roth
You might want to check further re: Hindawi … I noticed that some of their journals seem to have an enormous increase in the number of published articles … seemingly far above what could be reasonably be peer reviewed? This data is from journals indexed by Web of Science or PubMed … and I

[GOAL] Re: Who benefits from for-profit open access publishing? A case study of Hindawi and Egypt

2015-04-21 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Dana Roth dzr...@library.caltech.edu wrote: Some of the Hindawi journals are publishing ~10 papers a day. That could be over two million dollars a year income (@$600/article) for a single journal (e.g. Scientific World Journal). I have no involvement with

[GOAL] Re: Who benefits from for-profit open access publishing? A case study of Hindawi and Egypt

2015-04-21 Thread Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI
Amongst the largest 200 journals in the world (by number of articles published with a doi number assigned), there are about 50 journals that published 10 papers or more per business day in 2014. There are also many large, established journals in chemistry and physics, see: