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- Title
Predatory journals and their article publishing charges.
- Authors
Xia, Jingfeng
- Abstract
This study examines the payment policies of a list of standalone predatory open access journals available on scholarlyoa.com. It is found that 72% do charge article publication fees (APCs), which is a higher percentage than found in DOAJ journals. The mean number of articles published during 2013 was 227, but ranged from 4 to 2,286 articles. The majority of journals charge low APCs and can be assumed to have modest annual incomes. There was no correlation between the amount of APC charged and the number of articles published. Comparing the number of journals charging APCs compared to the percentage from DOAJ, the findings suggest a connection between predatory practices and charging author fees. However, a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of open access journal publishing beyond author charges should be done to avoid using APCs alone as a measure of whether a journal is predatory or not.
- Subjects
SCHOLARLY periodicals; OPEN access publishing; ARTICLE processing charges (Open access publishing); BEALL, Jeffrey; PUBLISHING
- Publication
Learned Publishing, 2015, Vol 28, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0953-1513
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1087/20150111