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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Pursuant to earlier points about the publishing glut:
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