In the Humanities, we have no monetary incentives to publish: we pay no journal and usually no journal pays us. The several times that a journal has paid me, the journal was outside the U.S., and the honoraria were minimal. This is as it should be in our field: we are self-sufficient, depending on no (material) resources outside our own minds.
Nelson is correct within my field as well. I've never received a monetary payment from a journal. I would personally not target a journal that imposes publication fees. I've never had to - so would avoid them on principle. Books, book chapters etc are a different thing. The current business model dictates that 'royalties' are paid to the author/s. That said, some publication houses are far more generous than others.
Is it me - but the RG site has been really playing up for the last few days? I'm trying to up-vote Nelson - but it will not let me.
Never got money for papers, and almost never paid for publishing. I avoid OA journals, which seek fee, for principle. Also was never paidfor the chapter or book - but my experience here is mostly related to national piblishers.
In fact, such big sharks, as Wiley or Elsevier, could pay authors and reviewers... they earn enough.
Hi Linas,
My paid book chapters and books are mainly through Elsevier and Wiley; there's Palgrave MacMillan and Cambridge University Press as well. Actually I've never quite worked out why they pay royalties for books - but not for journals. The only time that I have ever been paid to write in a 'journal' was some years ago - for more 'magazine-style' journals. Not sure if that 'model' is still in place or not - no why they vary from academic journals.
A first happened to me a few weeks ago. I submitted an article to a popular journal (for the first time) and had to pay a $25 US fee for them to 'process' it. I got an email from one of the sub-editors a week or so later - saying it wasn't suitable to go out for review. It made me think that journal must be making a fortune as it gets thousands of submissions per year and a rejection rate of 85%!!
Hi Dean, this should make you crazy. To pay fee for getting answer that your paper is not accepted, even without reviewing - thats great! I can understand such journals, like Ursus - you pay if your paper is accepted.
Roland - sounds like national journals might have tighter costs associated with them and cannot afford to pay royalties perhaps - compared to the international competition.
Yes Linus - I will not make the same mistake in a hurry. The main reason I paid the fee was because the paper I refer to is more than 10,000 words and it's difficult to condense it any more. It was one of the few journals that I could find that would allow this word count. Maybe they allow it so that they can get all that money - and then say no!!
Hi Linus,
It's an original paper about the role of memeplexes (memes, nmemes) on organisational development - and is also a case-study design. It's an evolutionary area based on Grave's earlier work. I co-author with the 'originator' of the article - John Cook - who is also on RG. It's tricky getting the word count any lower for such an original concept.
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