Open Access Publishing - Science topic

As Editor-in-Chief of Apollo Medicine, I'm excited to announce we're looking for passionate and experienced medical researchers to join our Editorial Board. Our DOAJ-indexed, multispeciality journal is dedicated to publishing impactful research that advances medical practice.

We're seeking individuals committed to quality, integrity, and open-access publishing. If you're ready to contribute your expertise and shape the future of medical publishing, I encourage you to reach out.

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Please send your CV and a brief cover letter directly to me. I look forward to hearing from you!

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I recently came across Qeios, an open-access publishing platform that allows real-time publishing with open peer review. It seems like an innovative approach to scientific communication, but I’d love to hear from researchers who have used it.

Any insights or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Are there other methods or other methods that can be used to search for studies that can be add?

The article I want to share is not published open access. Do I have to upload the link to the article?

I came across the Green Building and Sustainable Architecture collection under Nature Scientific Reports some weeks ago. https://www.nature.com/collections/gajghaebce

The special issue/collection is highly relevant to the manuscript I am planning to submit for consideration for publication with my co-authors. However, we do not have funding for Open Access publication.

Does anyone know if Nature Scientific Reports only publishes open access now i.e. publishing Open Access mandated by the journal now? Or there a way to publish non-open access? Or get a waiver?

After all the research is based on our industry data collected and insights gleaned from built projects over the years which we feel has valuable lessons learned for the wider industry and academia.

The authors in this manuscript are based in Singapore and the USA so we don't qualify under the Low Income Countries category article processing charge (APC) waiver either.

It feels unfair if industry authors who don't have access to university open access waivers want to publish their findings but don't have a chance to do so because of high APCs.

I have already written to journal but didn't hear back.

Any suggestions or insights will be useful. Thank you.

Hello everyone, where can I publish my research in Ecology for free? My current research for publication is on phylogenetic analysis and niche differentiation of freshwater crabs.

I am also considering the impact factor of journals. Unfortunately, publishing open-access journals would cost 1000 USD minimum and I do not have funds for it. I prefer to publish my work as open-access to widen the readers.

Thanks so much!

1) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381651064_Metaphysics_of_Specifics

2) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381662475_Trigonometric_Fractal_Differential_Equations

3)https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381469939_Critical_Rationalist_Physics

Sign the Diamond Initiative for Publishing Open Access Are you upset/frustrated about the unsustainable profiteering of commercial publishers which put papers behind a paywalls and/or require authors to pay the journal to make their paper open access (i.e., "Gold" OA)? Do you want to make a difference and help us change this system, towards a more community led publishing system? The collective action in science committee at freeourknowledge.org is launching a petition to encourage researchers to publish at least one scholarly paper with a non profit / diamond open access agreement within a five-year period. Diamond Open Access refers to a publishing model in which authors are not charged for making their work publicly available to all readers. We hereby invite you to contribute to this initiative by signing the pledge here. By signing the pledge, you will contribute to an increased demand for alternative community-led and university-led publishers. The pledge's activation is contingent on a threshold of 500 people which will demonstrate that researchers can reach a critical mass to change the status quo.

Follow this link: https://freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-collective-action-in-science-diamond/

Joint our group: https://freeourknowledge.org/committee/

Hello, I am 4th year medical student from Mexico and I lead a research group conformed mainly of other medical students with senior researchers as advisors. We are currently conducting 2 systematic reviews. Specifically, we are in the protocol writing stage. We would like to, apart from registering in PROSPERO, publish the protocol in Systematic Reviews (ISSN: 2046-4053) or any other journal that accept protocols for publications. How can we get funds for APC? Is it common for medical students to get funding from their universities to publish Open Access?

Any Journal recommendations for publishing the protocols, preferably if no open access fee is mandatory would be great.

Thank you in advance!!

I would like to know whether there are some scientific journals in Linguistics that publish open access without fees (APC) on authors and/or institution. Some renowned journals in the field ask around 3000 USD for a full open access publication, I think it is a bit expensive..

In my observations, I have come across a practice where some researchers include foreign authors, particularly from underdeveloped countries, as the last author in their papers. This is done in order to obtain waivers or discounts in Hindawi journals. I am curious to understand the strategies researchers employ to overcome financial constraints in open-access publishing.

However, I have concerns about the ethical implications of this practice. I would like to explore whether this approach could be considered unethical within the research community.

Open Journal of Clinical and Medical Case Reports (ISSN 2379-1039)

(jclinmedcasereports.com)

Not indexed on PubMed but NLM/PubMed ID: 101658769 (citations only)

It claims Impact Factor: 2.1

Thanks in advance

Here's the case , For papers accepted for publication in (JES or JSS, )authors choose whether to publish their articles as open access.(ie via standard subscription mode)

All articles accepted for publication in (ECS Advances or ECS Sensors Plus) are published open access. My question is " Should I pay for journal subscription for jes Or jss for opting golden access.. Or without journal basic subscription can i publish my paper in jss Or jes..

Open access journals often attract high publication cost as opposed to the subscription-access journals. What are the benefits of open access publishing? Thanks.

Although the preprints submissions can be interesting to check the repercussions, criticisms and suggestions pointed out, I think that a not very good choice of platform can have limited results. Among the platforms researched, I observed that OSF, Scielo and Elsevier preprints offer a reasonable structure for preprints submissions and analysis. In this sense, I kindly ask for suggestions on which platform may be the most indicated for a preprint submission in the field of social sciences.

Over my career, I have published many invited reviews that have been refereed, often as part of major conference proceedings. These articles often end up as chapters in books. In some circumstances, these books are an annual production but in most cases they disappear into the ether, rarely cited (and thus, I presume, read) and perhaps never to be seen again except on eBay. Certainly, in the modern era of electronic access, they do not work. Often, the editing and production takes over 12 months by which time, much of the discussion can be out of date. One such case pains me in particular: a 1992 review into which my postdocs and I put a lot of energy and imagination, and risked a lot of our novel ideas. We were given the impression that this would article would be published in a special ediition of a regular journal. It ended up in a relatively obscure book. As a consequence, now I put little effort into such writings and I warn my team mates to be wary of releasing their ideas. Sad. But in these days of measurement by citation and extreme competition for research funds, I am wondering if science books are dead.

Hi. I am conducting research on the topic "Promoting Open Access in Higher Institutions of Learning. Challenges and Prospects". All necessary Ideas are welcome. Thanks!

I have an accepted peer-reviewed chapter contribution by an Open Access publisher. I cannot afford even the subsidised charge. Any way out?

Thanks

Dear Researchers,

Could you assist to find out which Journal Q1 in pharmaceutical sciences is free open access publishing

Thank you in advance

Kind regards

I'm helping set up a new journal, and I'm trying to avoid building Word/LaTeX templates from scratch. There are a ton of templates out there for existing journals, of course! I would love to simply reuse any of them, perhaps tweaking them slightly for our own journal. But I haven't found a template that explicitly allows for modification and reuse. Does anyone have any suggestion where to look or if you have one you are willing to share?

With the advances in community review and Web3 on the horizon, I've been starting to wonder if the way in which traditional peer-review works is outdated. Have y'all found any systems out there that feel like the future of peer-review?

Research chemists continue in their slow uptake of preprints. I've lately suggested one key reason for this unique behaviour of scholars in the basic sciences in two OA studies, one published by Publications:

and another by Insights:

What is your opinion on the origin of this delay? Has your team recently embraced preprint publishing? What are your favorite preprint repositories?

Thank you in advance for your insight.

Dear community,

let me preface by saying my field is functional morphology (of the dentition), in both biological and paleontological contexts. Through my current position in a multidisciplinary institute, and on a highly diverse campus, I have made many friends from different disciplines. Amongst them a lot of physicists, and naturally we talk about work and the subject of publishing papers of course comes up, too.

I noted a striking difference: they often say "we just published this paper" and mean, they have just uploaded on arXiv.org. Moreover, first uploading to pre-print archives, and seeking publication much later, is totally accepted, it even seems encouraged and just the norm.

I feel in my field, we are still thinking of pre-prints as being "no real publications", and will seek peer-reviewed publication first - only uploading to pre-print servers if the journal permits to upload the submitted version.

My question is, what is he perception in your field? Are we robbing ourselves of opportunities by not engaging with pre-print archives more? Should this change?And where do these different publication practices in the different sciences come from?

I am interested in your insight.

Recently all Peer-Reviewed (SCI) Journals are consistently supporting open access publishing practices. My concern is that, it will not be very arduous for researchers from poor country to publish articles in such journals?. Most of researchers from different countries who cannot afford that much money due to lack of research grants including funds crisis etc.. Is this really a good move in scientific academia?. It is like benefiting the same rich sections and it seem like scientific business rather than good freely quilty research? Now the house is open for enlightened thought in this regard.

Dear researchers. If we want to publish a paper in a hybrid-type journal and choose the non-open access option (for subscribers only), is it literally free, or is there still a possibility of paying a less charge than APC in their open access option? How can we identify it?

One of my research papers was rejected without being sent for peer review but I have just found a highly similar paper published by the same journal. Now can I request for an explanation from the journal for this double standard policy?

I recently got an invitation as a potential reviewer from "info@peer-review.net", In the email (see below), there was no mention of the group to which the journal belonged and the email has not been mentioned on the website of the journal.

Have you had any encounters with The Open Civil Engineering Journal yet? What do you think of them? Or do you think it is a fake email?

Thank you very much to you all for your valuable contributions which will benefit us all.

Here is the email in question:

Dr. AB Alsamawi

Univ Tlemcen

Fac Technol

Dept Civil Engn

EOLE Res Lab, BP 230, Tilimsen

ALGERIA

Dear Dr. Alsamawi,

In view of your work in the field, your name has been recommended, as a potential reviewer, for the manuscript entitled “...........” that has been submitted for publication in the journal “The Open Civil Engineering Journal”. Please review the abstract below, to see if it comes in your direct field of expertise, and provide us a confirmation of your willingness to review the complete manuscript. I hope that you will be able to help us.

Title: .......

Abstract: Aims: ........... Background: .......... Objective: ........ Results: ............

I would appreciate it if you could kindly respond to this message at your earliest. Since we are endeavoring to provide an efficient review process for our authors, we would request that you send your comments and recommendations, if any, back to us as soon as possible.

In addition to carrying out this review, we would also like to propose your name, as a reviewer, to be included in the Reviewer Panel of this journals, and possibly others relevant to your field. Our Reviewer Portal will also offer its reviewers the following benefits and discounts on other Bentham services:

•         A free eBook of their Choice, on completion of two reviews

•         A 50% Fee Waiver on Quick Track rates on completion of 3 reviews

•         A 40% discount on Open Access Plus rates on completion of 4 reviews

As a member of our Reviewer panel, you would be expected to review a maximum of 3 articles every year. Please also note that to expedite the review, this request has been sent to several qualified researchers and once we get the first three commitments to review, we will not entertain any further acceptances.

Thank you for your consideration.

Regards,

Editorial Manager

It is the link of a beneficial Q&A page with more than 320 answer by R^G colleagues.

Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization (JIMO) is an open access journal. You pay a substantial amount to publish a paper. When you go to the website of its publisher, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS Press), it seems that it is not really based in the United States. I am not sure if it is a legitimate professional organization or if it is a predatory publisher. They have a large number of open access journals. On the other hand, their handling of papers is terrible: extremely slow and low-tech, which is not typical for predatory journals. It may take 13 months to get an editorial rejection, for instance. Furthermore, they don't have an online submission system with user profiles on it, you just submit the paper on a website, and they give you a URL to check your paper's status, which makes your submission open to anyone who has the URL. It has an impact factor of 1.3, which makes me puzzled. Any comments on this organization and the journal will be appreciated.

A journal has accepted my paper which has multiple indexing including google scholar and is open access. But it ain't scopus indexed. Does that make the journal less desirable or credible?

The problem is that I can not recognize what is predatory publisher and what is not. Why? Because some superiors (often professors or groups with certain interests) claim that this or that publisher is bad, with predatory traits.

This negative campaign is being run against publishers whose journals are indexed in the Web of Science or Scopus databases.

Do you think it's perfectly okay to publish in journals indexed in WoS / Scopus? Or can these databases index stacks of predatory publishing journals?

Of course, there can be some mistakes in the order of units..

Please help share this including your opinions, thanks.

Have you read the paper of "Bohannon J. Who’s Afraid of Peer Review? Science, 2013, 342: 60-65"? The results are surprising that over 50% of the 304 OA journals accepted a Deliberately-fabricated article. Is it true that all those 157 open access journals do not conduct peer review, and have very poor scholarly quality?

In order to achieve more views and downloads for my open access papers, is posting them in SSRN can be a good idea?

Is SSRN a similar website like Research Gate?

I'm interested in repositories like zenodo, figshare, etc., where open-access papers (previously published) can be uploaded in order to improve the visibility of papers. Thanks a lot for your suggestions!

Does anyone have experience with Columbus Publishers?

trustworthy or predatory journals?

The Publishing Industry is a robber of knowledge democracy, especially for us who live in the Global South. The Publishing Industry, of late, has been asking for a mandatory so-called Article Processing Fee (APC). In my opinion, this is pure theft. These publishers are increasing limiting options to choose from when submitting a manuscript. They will not, for example, give you a choice to NOT PAY A FEE, or ASK FOR A WAIVER. The only option you are given is: I AM WILLING TO PAY THE APC upon acceptance of my paper. This is daylight robbery.

For knowledge democracy and decolonization of knowledge, works from the Global South should be published open access and with APCs waived. It is encouraging to see that MDPI and Hindawi are learning that and doing it very quickly. The "Western" Publishing Industry should copy what MDPI and Hindawi are doing and set researchers in the Global South free.

You are welcome to continue this discussion.

I have just published a book with a big international science publisher (CRC Press, a branch of Taylor and Francis). The multi-author edited book is nice and hopefully useful for many (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321016401_Grasslands_of_the_world_diversity_management_and_conservation), but the experiences with the publisher were so disappointing that some co-authors and I decided to start a public discussion on writing scientific books in the age of greedy publishers.

Here are some key facts of our collaboration with CRC/Francis and Taylor:

· The communication with the publisher was very unreliable and inefficient: e.g. did we receive various requests multiple times and the publisher “forgot” about previous written agreements.

· The typesetting as the only service provided by the publisher was very poor: about 90% of the changes made by the publisher introduced errors into previously correct text or tables and it was very time-consuming for us to find all these errors and remove them again.

· Instead of paying the authors a honorarium for their work, the publisher forced us to pay for the colour figures in our articles.

· The publisher refused to give the authors a complimentary print copy of their book (only the editors got one).

· First the publisher wanted to provide an electronic version of the chapter/book only to each corresponding author, not to all authors, and only after serious negotiations they accepted to provide e-books to all authors. We assumed that these would be functional pdf’s, but instead they received the books in a very weird e-book format with a display in an ugly and hardly readable layout (e.g. all text in bold), not allowing proper printing nor sharing parts of the content (e.g. single pages or figures) with others. This means that the authors did not receive any printed or electronic copy of that exactly corresponds to the published version of their own work.

I am extremely frustrated about the behaviour of CRC/Francis and Taylor and consider the last point as being at the edge of unethical. My feeling is that CRC might only reflect the strategy of most international science publishers to maximise profit by pressing money out of both authors and readers/libraries, while at the same time minimising the service they provide. On the other hand my gut feeling tells me that nowadays with cheap print-on-demand technology and the possibility to distribute printed or open access e-books without the need to involve a big marketing/distribution machinery should allow for other solutions.

Therefore, I would like to ask you two questions:

· Did you make similar experiences with other science publishers, or are they better or even worse?

· Do you see ways how those among us who would like to continue to write nice and useful books can do this without sacrificing themselves to profit-maximisation strategy of the big international science publishers?

Looking forward to your responses and hoping for a lively debate,

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dengler

(ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland)

I have enjoyed listening to podcasts to learn about scientific communication, research methodology, peer review, open access, preprints, scientometrics, and other topics. I am interested if anyone has a podcast they like that discusses any of these topics. Here are some that I have listened to so far:

The Scholarly Kitchen Podcast

InformED (ISMPP)

Everything Hertz

Science Communication Journal Club Podcast

Thank you,

Rob

I'm finishing an article about Nikolay Gumilyov (Николай Гумилёв, Gumilyev, Gumil'ev) - who, surprisingly for several Scopus-listed journals, is not the same person as his son, Lev Gumilyov, and whom I find shockingly understudied and underappreciated. Never particularly popular in the West, today, with interests shifting... well, away from Russian aristocratic aesthetes, he seems to be almost forgotten. Similarly in Central Europe, or at least in Poland, where I come from: before perestroika Gumilyov was "unpublishable" in Soviet Union, so it was difficult to get acquainted with his poetry when knowledge of Russian was fairly widespread, and today hardly anyone knows the language or has much interest in such topics (understandably, yet sadly). In Russia, on the other hand, he has his place in the canon secured, but it comes with a price of being incorporated into the lore of state ideology.

Fortunately, here I am with my article on his Italian Poems. While I think the article is very decent, it's not the most en vogue topic. On top of that, nolens volens, I end up arguing with almost every critic I refer to. And still, I need to publish it to face my supervisor with my head high, and also because turning this great poet into a misspelled footnote to Akhmatova and Mandelsham, or a banner woven from misinterpretations, is un-for-giv-a-ble.

Which leads to my point, as I can no longer ignore the burning question where I'm planning to submit my untimely meditations, composed in English. To make things worse, while I do offer some original input, there is no grand synthesis, the thing is quite specific. Too specific for a generalist journal, I guess, but I could try something on Modernism, or Decadence, or correspondence of arts, or Italy/Italianism. I will be grateful for any suggestions, or at least warnings!

Obviously, it would be good if our work would be open for access by anyone. Publishing open access, however, is expensive especially for most researchers in developing countries. Would you mind sharing insights on how you promote your work?

I would like to ask you to share your experience for publishing in MDPI special issues:

1- It seems they are getting benefit from Invited Guest Editors to write and present a short proposal about a specific topic. This is purely an honorary position and after this step, the staff of MDPI (who are not from the academy) will proceed with everything. They receive manuscripts from authors and send the manuscript for revision. In many cases, if the article is accepted with a major revision, only 5 days will be given by the assistant editor to revise the manuscript!!!

2- High publishing cost (almost 2000 CHF) is another negative point.

3- It seems 100 CHF gift for reviewers is attractive enough for many people who voluntarily work as a reviewer without having enough experience in that topic. The reviewers only ask for modifying graphs and tables and suggesting their article as a reference!!!

4- I personally prefer to submit to a journal with a professional academic editor who is really familiar with the topic and after acceptance to pay for open access.

5- The impact factor of special issues is high, but i think this is neither related to the quality of the articles nor the journal. This is mainly due to the open acces of journals that articles can receive more citations!

6- The positive point from my side is that they are quite fast and within one month you will receive the result, either accepted or rejected!

This discussion is precipitated by a discussion in a list serve that I am subscribed to concerning predatory publishing and the issue of working with and publishing in MDPI journals.

In my experience, when the subject of MDPI journals is put forward, this tends to raise polarizing discourses and opinions.

My question: What has been your experience in dealing with MDPI journals either as guest editor, author or reviewer?

Recently, researchers in Poland published this study that goes some way to addressing this polemic.

See: Krawczyk, F., & Kulczycki, E. (2021). How is open access accused of being predatory? The impact of Beall's lists of predatory journals on academic publishing. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(2), 102271. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133320301622

Choosing a journal for the publication of research articles is becoming increasingly difficult and a source of concern. Most often, the researcher struggles to determine the article's weight and is rejected. So, how should we go about choosing a journal? Do you have any suggestions that you find useful? I'd be extremely grateful.

I plan to post a research pre-print in arXiv.org of a paper that I already submitted for publication in a journal.

If the pre-print gets cited, I wonder if the citations can be attributed to its corresponding journal article once it gets published.

I hope those with experience on this can provide some insights below.

There are common terms pointing to unapproved publishing journals, like fake, predatory, phishing ... etc. Can someone help clarifying the differences between these terms?

Given your experience, which repository would you recommend to share current research results with other researchers?

The Beall's web site scholarly-oa.com does not host the Beall's list of predatory journals and publishers anymore.

I have recenly found a web site https://predatoryjournals.com/ which claims to build on it and expand this list (see https://predatoryjournals.com/about/ ).

What do you think of it?

Update [August 1, 2019]: The question was originally posted on December 26, 2017 but now it looks like the site in question remains dormant and was not updated since 2017, which makes the question somewhat moot.

Is MDPI a predatory journal publisher from China?

More info>

MDPI was included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies in 2014.

Most, if not all, publishers approach the acquisition of original work through the transfer of publication rights of the author to those of the publisher. Hence, the copyright is given to the publisher vs. the author. I propose that instead of lessening the value of published works through Open Access, publishers should offer authors the opportunity to benefit more from their own work. My interest is to create a publishing house who LEASES original works while guaranteeing copyright to the author. Of course, individual agreements would include a negotiated percentage of compensation above publishing costs, length of lease, marketing responsibilities, etc. When you answer, please tell me if you are new to publishing, have published in journals, or have published books. It would also be nice to know how many estimated items in journals and/or book publications. Thank you!

Both strategies: High Impact Factor or established journal - have different functions, other positive aspects and other limitations are not fully comparable.

Which strategies are considered to be more appropriate depends on the privities who the researcher writing the scientific papers deems more important. In the context of this issue an important question arises: Do you publish in scientific journals with a high Impact Factor but representing related or other fields of knowledge against the scientific specialty of the researcher who sends his scientific texts for publication?

Do you, however, publish in journals with a lower Impact Factor, which represent the field of knowledge in which the researcher specializes and writes his scientific texts? Which strategy is chosen by individual researchers, scientists and research and teaching staff of the university depends on whether the prime points are collected IF for the institution, which the researcher affirms, or more important is the citation of written texts in a given field, but more important is the issue of publishing in magazines whose titles are closely correlated with the problems of scientific texts written by the researcher.

Do you agree with me on the above matter?

In the context of the above issues, the following question is valid:

Please reply

I invite you to the discussion

Thank you very much

Best wishes

I founded an open-access academic journal titled Journal of Emerging Computer Technologies (JECT) that will start publishing in 2021 and it has no processing, publishing, open-access or any other charges for authors. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ject

Would you like to contribute by sending an article to a newly established journal?

What are your thoughts on newly established journals?

It starts with some background

The China/Asia On Demand (CAOD) site (https://caod.oriprobe.com/index.htm) uses the name “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research” with ISSN 1674-0440. A real Chinese subscription-based journal https://caod.oriprobe.com/journals/gwyx-yxfc/INTERNATIONAL_JOURNAL_OF_PHARMACEUTICAL_RESEARCH.htm

However, the ISSN nr. 1674-0440 uses “Guoji yaoxue yanjiu zazhi” https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1674-0440 and is linked to the same Chinese subscription-based journal but now uses the name “Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research” (http://202.38.153.236:81/Jweb_jipr/EN/article/showOldVolumn.do does not seem to work well but indicate its true existence). See also enclosed pictures (bit poor resolution but the best I was able to pick up).

If you ‘Google’ for example the paper with the title “Alliin and related active components:research advances” you see both titles popping up so indeed both are the same. The “Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research” ISSN 1674-0440 is Scopus indexed: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100881509 which seems to correspond to the above mentioned genuine Chinese subscription-based journal.

However, this journal is hijacked by “Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research” using the same ISSN nr. 1674-0440: http://ijprjournals.com/ with contact: ijprjournals@gmail.com

Since 2009 there is a journal with the similar name as the genuine Chinese one “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (IJPR)”, but with a different ISSN 0975-2366 that seems to be indexed in Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700174645 This journal “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (IJPR)” with ISSN 0975-2366 (http://ijpronline.com/Default.aspx ) presents itself as a subscription-based journal though all papers can be found on RG and/or Academia.edu and once submitting https://www.ejmanager.com/my/ijpr/ it appears you have to pay fee which is misleading and dubious. They use a SCImago link (with a picture of the wrong journal “Journal of international pharmaceutical research”): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700174645&tip=sid&exact=no

I predict that this journal will be discontinued soon, since last year they ‘all of a sudden’ published 690 papers in 2019 and 2488 papers in 2020 (while it ‘normally’ was round 50 or so).

So:

http://ijprjournals.com/ fake and hijacked version of the real one with ISSN 1674-0440

http://ijpronline.com/Default.aspx predatory and one better stay away from (presumably they will lose their Scopus indexing).

Best regards.

PS. Both the IJPRonline site and SCImago make a mess out of it since they depict the image of “Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research” ISSN 1674-0440: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100881509 while they talk about “International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research”.

We are preparing to submit a manuscript in field of Computational Chemistry (Computer aided-drug design). However. due to our current budget we won't be able to afford the cost of the processing fees charged by most open access journals.

Is there any available free-to-publish journal(s) that can publish our work - either open access or "society" journals?

In peer review,

Does the innovative of idea in article is besed on methodolgy , or study area, or the used dataset or all of them?

How editors and reviewers evaluate the innovative idea of article ?

Thanks in advance

There are several journals with varying impact factors. Still we find journals having no impact factor. I want to know whether the impact or importance of a researcher becomes less to a scientific community when he/she publishes a paper in a journal with low impact factor or no impact factor?

I like a lot this one - http://www.doaj.org

While APCs (fees for publication costs or fees for open access) vary, some of them are quite high as 1000-2000 CHF. Although some publishers have schemes for waiving APCs for researchers from underdeveloped and developing countries, the amount is still quite high for the authors.

I was wondering about the practices of different institutions and countries:

- What is the current policy of your university/research institute/country on APCs?

- Where do the funds come from for APCs? and,

- Who is eligible for the funds?

Dear all,

I am a neuroscientist with a focus on imaging analyses in stroke populations.

My first scientific works were decently well received and were published in journals like Human Brain Mapping, Neuroimage or Neuroimage Clinical. The first two journals - both leading journals in the field of brain imaging - recently transitioned from subscription to full gold open access journals, the latter was established as an gold OA journal that I paid ~1.500€ for in 2016.

Today, publishing in these journals requires a fee betwen 2.900€ and 3.200€. Due to the Wiley DEAL with German universities, the fee for HBM is actually slightly lower, at ~2.400€. The same price range applies to many other OA journals.

At my university in Germany, we can pay OA publications thanks to a publication fund of the German Research Foundation, that pays OA fees up to 2.000€. However, this fund does not support publications at all that exceed 2.000€. A fee of 2.001€ has to be fully paid by the authors.

This is a fee that I cannot pay in any legal way. Even if I had a full research project grant of 3 years (worth a few hundred thousand €) by the German Research Foundation, this would only include 2.250€ support for publication fees - for a whole 3 year project that often yields multiple publications.

Note that I am aware that I don't need to publish in these journals, because more reasonably priced alternatives exist, as well as classic subscription journals. I could just publish everything in PlosONE. However, I am not an important, well-known or powerful scientist. We do not need to pretend that we only judge scientific works after reading them, but in fact quite much by the journal they were published in. And even if YOU don't do so, the next reviewer of my grant proposal might do so, judging a large body of low-impact journal papers as bad, while preferring the grant proposal of another researcher who published a large body of medium to high impact, expensive journal papers.

My question to you: How do you handle this situation? How do you pay the fees?

I also wonder if I am just too much of a novice in science, so that I eventually missed common strategies that nobody talks about. Some colleagues - with other PIs - told me that they just submit papers without considering the fees at all, because the PIs are willing and able to pay for impact.

Or is it just normal to include the department head as a co-author in some common, but shady agreement so that the department pays for it? If yes, how does this work? Can I be open about this or do I rather have to pretend I need feedback or similar 'scientific' input first to not be considered rude?

Or is it just my PI who might be unwilling to support my research output, because it is anyway a common practice to illeagly misapplicate funding bodies for such fees?

How reputed is IntechOpen? A publisher of Open Access books. Anyone has experience?

In case my article is accepted in an open access journal (e.g. MDPI group) and I have to pay article processing charges (APC) to support open access but I do not have enough funds in my account then what are the options to pay APC.

Looking for funding agencies that can only support regarding APC and/or any individual from plant sciences (Plant Breeding and Genetics) who provides financial support on certain terms and conditions.

Dear friends, I am working on several research projects related to food waste but I don't know where to publish them. If I can get someone to suggest

Alternative models to measure the quality of research are the personal citation indexes (H-index). Is that true?

My colleagues and I issue a journal "Social Phenomena". It is an nonprofit independent platform for scholars who support the open science movement and wish to share their knowledge with others. The mission of our journal is to help authors share their ideas with the Russian-speaking scientific audience. We translate all articles into Russian and publish them for free in open access. We also do not charge authors any fees because we believe that there is no place for commerce in science.

The theme of the next issue is "Giftedness: the conditions and factors". We welcome all authors from various branches of science who are interested in this topic and want to make their research open to fellow Russian scholars.

The additional info is in the attached file and here http://journal.socialphenomena.org/en/

Now a days almost all the publishers are encouraging to do open access publications. However, many academicians says that open access or online publications are not good and publishers are compromising with the quality of research publication due to publication fee.

What is your opinion? Kindly let me know.

Is the information published by BEALL'S LIST about Potential predatory scholarly open‑access publishers available in the following link accurate and reliable?

https://beallslist.net/

The Last updated of this page was on June 09, 2020.

Many journal publishers are opening their COVID-19 researches for free to the public. Among them which are the most useful? Is more famous one the better one?

If you got a research on COVID-19 on hand, which one of the following will you submit to ?

Which one is easiest to accept your publication?

Please vote as you like!

Other than those common opened platform below, you can also suggest any new ones you think is useful for COVID-19 research.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

[2] https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus

[3] https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

[4] https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus

[5] https://taylorandfrancis.com/coronavirus/

[6] https://journals.sagepub.com/coronavirus

[7] https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center

[8] https://plos.org/covid-19/

[9] http://tools.ovid.com/coronavirus/

COVID-19 is putting a huge impact on the society by the isolation measures it brings. People are now working from home office, and every walks of life are pausing their usual work and life.

How about the booming exponential rise in COVID-19 researches? But a shut downed administrative team of the publishing office? And the loss of manpower towards battle over the. COVID-19 frontline?

With the limited journal space, will timely researches be delayed in publication? Which may miss out important messages towards the public!

Peer Review: Publishing in the time of COVID-19

DOI: 10.7554/eLife.57162

What's your view?

The book I have edited with my colleagues is now published open access. This is the link to the publication https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/311959. How to add this to the publication because it is not a file, it is a link?

Thank you!

Maritta Törrönen

If one has a (maybe transient) link to an open access version of a paper, how can we post it? Of course one can upload the unedited manuscript, but we all know that the edited one is much nicer to read...

We published one apper and I got a link, but dont know where to post it:

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XgcUKs2wuR1Y

I can't post it as supplement (file needed), nor anywhere on the article page and there is no format which can be used to created a new contribution...

I found a similar question but without a usable idea (besides building a document including the link)

What is the main aspect you take into account when you plan to publish a good journal paper?

a) Journal impact factor, b) Journal reputation in the field, c) Publication speed, d) acceptance/rejection rate, e) Open access fees, f) Other aspects (please say)

You may choose one option only or re-order the options as you think more important.

This question is only one of several questions posed in our recently published open access paper at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/11/12/1430/pdf

1. What is the minimal number of degrees of freedom needed to describe the electromagnetic field of a single moving source? Same question for a gravitational field. Same question for any field propagating with the speed of light.

2. Is it possible to capture all of the information about such a field in one scalar, complex-valued pre-potential?

3. Can such a pre-potential be defined invariantly with respect to the Lorentz group? the conformal group?

4. Can the Lienard-Wiechert potential be derived without assuming an inverse-square law?

5. Must the electromagnetic field of a single moving source be either self-dual or anti-self-dual?

For (most of) the answers, see our recently published open access paper at

I am sharing the information about the list of hijacked and predatory journals. It is very very important for scientists across the globe particularly for young scientists who have little knowledge about the journals.

I am also attaching real journals' list for your information.

This is a list of journals that appear to have been hijacked, meaning that their websites or branding have been co-opted by a predatory journal or publisher. List of Hijacked Journals: https://predatoryjournals.com/hijacked/

Potential predatory scholarly open‑access publishers, BEALL'S LIST OF PREDATORY

JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS: https://beallslist.weebly.com/

http://www.DrMehrdad.com/10.pdf