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:
http://sciforum.net/stati
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Dana Roth
wrote:
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> Some of the Hindawi journals are publishing ~10 papers a day. That could
> be over two million dollars a year income (@$600/article) for a single
> journal (e.g. Scientific World Journal).
>
I have no involvement with Hindawi and no comment o
lobal Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); David Solomon
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Who benefits from for-profit open access publishing? A case
study of Hindawi and Egypt
Hi all,
The 1500 USD charged by Hindawi for the journal in question is by global
standards fairly reasonable, given the impact facto
Just to be silly:
US$ 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" a
> écrit :
>
> Hi all,
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 W
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 particul
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 ap
I completely agree with David. Let me add a few comments. Although they are
coming at it from different angles, it seems to me that this is where Heather
Morrison and Jeffrey Beall converge in what looks like thinly veiled disdain
for open access publishers from regions outside N America and Eur
I’m rather confused by this blog post. If the argument is that Egypt should
invest more in research and build greater safeguards to intellectual and
academic freedom then I’m sure that we would all agree wholeheartedly.
However, it appears to be trying to make a point about Hindawi and for-prof
