<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Dana Roth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dzrlib@library.caltech.edu" target="_blank">dzrlib@library.caltech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br><br></div><div>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)<br><br><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00404039/56/2">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00404039/56/2</a><br><br></div><div>(and a 2-page paper can cost 41 USD for 24 hours read)<br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br> <br><br></div></div>P.<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069</div>
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