[GOAL] Re: Who benefits from for-profit open access publishing? A case study of Hindawi and Egypt

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Dana Roth <dzrlib at library.caltech.edu>
wrote:

>
> Some of the Hindawi journals are publishing ~10 papers a day. That could
> be over two million dollars a year income (@$600/article) for a single
> journal (e.g. Scientific World Journal).
>

I have no involvement with Hindawi and no comment on their quality, but 10
papers/day is not in itself a problem. PLoSONE publishes ca 150 papers/day
and I would assume SWJ covers a number of subjects.

There are many "established" journals with high publication rates. For
example Tetrahedron Letters (which only publishes chemical syntheses) can
publish 50 papers/week (7 papers per day)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00404039/56/2

(and a 2-page paper can cost 41 USD for 24 hours read)

If that is aggregated with Tetrahedron (the same subject matter, but longer
papers), then Elsevier can publish over 100 papers in chemical synthesis
alone in some weeks.


P.

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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