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And he left out the part where you have to pay hundreds of dollars to submit a paper (in some fields anyway).


It is commonly thousands. And this is the norm in many fields.


Yes, this is driving the massive proliferation of journals that keep spamming me to publish with them. Never heard of the journal, but there is a USD$2400 fee for 'processing'. It's a good business model, particularly if all your staff are in countries with cheap labour.

The people funding science should cap publication related payments to some nominal sum. Whole swarms of predatory journals would instantly die.




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