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
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 (@$600/article) for a single
journal (e.g. Scientific World Journal).
I have no involvement with
Amongst the largest 200 journals in the world (by number of articles
published with a doi number assigned), there are about 50 journals that
published 10 papers or more per business day in 2014. There are also
many large, established journals in chemistry and physics, see:
Just to be silly:
US$ 6000 for the high end western APC is more than the amount of one month
salary of a senior scientist here in France. :-(
Serge
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Le 11 avr. 2015 à 19:04, Bo-Christer Björk bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi a
I agree completely with what Jan and David have said.
If the purpose a journal is to communicate between author and reader
without frills and publisher-junk (cf. Tufte's chart-junk) then Hindawi
journals come high up my list. Conversely many mainstream publishers'
technical offerings are simply
David, Jan Peter: thank you for your comments. I agree with some of what you
say, would like to point to where we said basically the same things in the
original post. and have some comments to add:
Agreed - Hindawi has a deserved reputation as a leader in scholarly publishing,
and in
Hi all,
The 1500 USD charged by Hindawi for the journal in question is by global
standards fairly reasonable, given the impact factor level of the
journal. The problem is that uniform APCs for all countries is probably
unsustainable in the long run. For this reason many gold OA journals
give
