[GOAL] Re: Gold OA: Publication costs and journal impact factors

[Sally Morris]

I find it self-evident, rather than worrying

On the value side of the pricing equation, publishing in a high IF journal
is clearly of more value to an author than publishing in a lo or no IF
journal.

On the cost side, I'd guess that high IF journals tend to reject a higher %
of articles than low or no IF journals.  Accepted articles have to bear a
share of the costs of processing these articles up to the point of
rejection. 

Sally


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-----Original Message-----
From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of ANDREW Theo
Sent: 12 October 2012 15:12
To: goal at eprints.org
Subject: [GOAL] Gold OA: Publication costs and journal impact factors

Dear All,

I'd like to draw your attention to a piece of work we have carried out which
looks at Gold OA fees and journal impact factors:

http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/openscholarship/2012/10/02/impact-cost/

In short, it appears that 1) hybrid journals generally charge more than full
OA journals independent of journal impact factor, and 2) hybrid journals
with high impact factors charge significantly more than other types of
journal for gold open access. 

I find this apparent correlation between journal impact factor and cost
worrying and would welcome feedback. Is this something that other people are
seeing or have we got our facts wrong?

Kind regards, Theo
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