We summarize an article entitled "Who should pay for open-access publishing? APC alternatives emerge"
Category: Article Processing Charges
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.
Revenue form article processing charges for five publishers was over US$ 1 billion between 2015-2018
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 enables you to earn points by editing a manuscript
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.
We argue that scholarly publishers should bear some of the cost in developing tools to detect AI generated content.