Breakdown of costs of publishing an academic article from @brembs and @SciPubLab. Conservative est. of publication costs of $600 per article, even for a prestigious journal with high rejection rate. Meanwhile, avg revenue per article is $4K. https://t.co/UXSL9nAxJm https://t.co/az59kkpqvc
@KeepItRheol @McGnty @devon_cantwell You may find this preprint https://t.co/MEwXqbjU3E by @SciPubLab and @brembs on the costs (not price!) of scientific publishing interesting. It's cheaper to publish than you would think and most of the price is tied up in non-publishing and paywall costs (and profit, of course)
For once, markets seem to induce a useful result. But as long as publishers rely on "value" (i.e. prestige), over costs, they will go on pricing their ware way over the inflation rate. Read Grossman and Brembs on this (https://t.co/AkoMKSAIIE) on this topic. It is essential. https://t.co/jyUhw4trH8
@agjedde @ajrbyers @Protohedgehog @openscience To respond, please take a look at the article by A. Grossmann and B. Brembs: https://t.co/wgkeiEnRgg or any later version ("Assessing the size of the affordability problem in scholarly publishing". See how and why we pay way too much for the information we need!
@MarcusMunafo @AcademicRogue @trnsprtst @mendel_random @PNASNews Therefore, people like @MarcusMunafo and others have been collecting data on how the journal system is counter productive:
https://t.co/1js3IXvyCl
and how modern publishing would only cost us less than 10% of today, freeing moneys for innovation:
https://t.co/Hp6Ik4Bby7