The first thing I did on seeing this article was skim through looking for graphs showing how megajournal submissions and publications have changed through time, to see whether there are visible trends or asymptotes. I was disappointing to see only tables of numbers. (I wish I'd seen the article as a preprint and so been able to contribute this observation at a point where it could have helped impr...

I'd be interested to know whether the author considered or excluded the following journals that I have identified as being mega-journals (see http://cofactorscience.com/journal-selector and choose the option 'All sound science' under 'How selective would you like the journal to be?'): CMAJ Open, Cureus, Ecosphere, F1000Research, Gigascience, SAGE Open Medicine, ScienceOpen Research. Some of these...