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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by asperous on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:19PM (#30081648)
I get that but also consider that people are free to publish in other journals.

Although it does make me uncomfortable that its a for-profit company, they only print 7-10 articles a month, so I can understand the financials mathematics of needing to make it this amount per article if they want to continue to have a full staff maintain the journal the way they want to run it. I am just grateful these articles are now open to the public for free.

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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by exdsq on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:28PM (#30081715)
They can publish in other journals but at the expense of their career. Many publications at leading journals is your only real chance of making a career in academia - it matters more than actual impact because they're much easily measurable :)
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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by hkt on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:04AM (#30082325)
A prime example of "what can be measured can be managed". Grim news for science.
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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by exdsq on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:29AM (#30082449)
Yep! My wife is a postdoc at Stanford and has become completely disillusioned by the whole thing, pretty sad to see after so many years of loving it!
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Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11... by dash2 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:20AM (#30084175)
By contrast, another Springer journal, Scientific Reports, charges about $2000 per article… and publishes about 23,000 articles per year. So it’s not all down to high fixed costs. It’s rent-seeking.
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