They could at least thank all the researchers that made it possible by paying to publish their best papers, by reviewing for free despite all the major cuts in scientific research in most countries worldwide

Unsurprisingly, there is a strong correlation between APCs and H-index, as well as between APCs and Scimago rank for both for-profit (FP) journals and for non-profit (NP)+university press (UP) journals.

4/7

It comes with no surprise but approximately 53% of all journals are either in the UK or in the USA (and even up to 65% if we include Springer Nature (Germany / UK) and Elsevier/Cell Press (Netherlands / USA) in this consideration).
#scientificPublication #AcademicSky

To my own surprise, I must confess that what I observed was the opposite: OA journals have, on average, cheaper APCs than non-OA journals (i.e. hybrid + subscription journals).

thanks for the fbk, yeah sounds likely, you can already see it on the where to publish website if you filter the data by publisher type. There are more diamond OA (0€ APC) in the non-profit group while the extreme high outliers are more concentrated in the for-profit group

Also unsurprisingly, the difference is statistically significant (p<0.001) and the average price is even higher when looking at for-profit journals that are NOT associated with one way or another to a scientific society:
2829 +/- 53€
2/4

Based on our WhereToPublish database, we were curious to see if the APCs depend on the publisher type and with relatively no surprise at all, the journals that are for-profit are way above:
For-profit journals = 2635 +/- 37€ (mean +/- sem)
Non-profit & University Press journals = 1996 +/- 63€
1/4

There is a growing consensus in academia that the current scientific publishing system needs to change. Where to Publish? was built as a database of all life-science journals to promote that change by highlighting journals that are open access and whose revenues directly serve Academia. 2/4

fediscience.org/@ungarage@ma...