From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:43:11 +1000

Thanks Brian,

An interesting thought experiment. He does make a fairly strong casual
observation:

However, open access journals charge the authors of articles a substantial
fee to publish, in order to make up for the dollars lost from not requiring
subscriptions. So, instead of making more money the more copies of the
journal they sell, open access journals make more money as a function of
how many articles they accept. Authors are willing to pay more to get their
articles published in more prestigious journals. So, the more exciting the
findings a journal publishes, the more references, the higher the impact
the journal, the more submissions they get, the more money they make.


This statement is simply incorrect in many cases. It is always annoying
when people do this kind of thing.

Danny


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On 31 Oct 2019, at 13:52, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Brian Simboli <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:27:33 -0400

Pursuant to earlier points about the publishing glut:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/were-incentivizing-bad-science/

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