Category: Article Processing Charges

Previously (and perhaps even now) We used to advise our students that publishing in special issues could be good as the reviewers are probably more aligned to the topic of the SI and the reviews...

We summarize an article entitled "Who should pay for open-access publishing? APC alternatives emerge"

Ethical concerns were raised about three years ago, saying that a paper contained fake meta-analysis. The publisher says that it is still under investigation. We give our thoughts.

The "big 5" publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley) a was over $1 billion. We look at the article that reported this.

Frontiers appear to be offering vouchers if you edit a manuscript. We ask some questions.

There appears to be a market for MDPI vouchers. You provide any vouchers you have and "they" give you an authorship.