there have been several questions about this situation: you are "invited" to publish your work in a journal - but you must submit your work to their "editing process". by the time they have finished with you, you are on the hook for considerable amounts of money.
everyone wants to point to a publication to say "they accepted my article".
stay with the reputable, established journals in your field. one article in a real journal is worth a hundred of the other.
i have been in writing, editing and publishing for almost 60 years. plenty of articles have been printed that were paid for by the person who wished to advertise - whether a product, a service, or her/himself. this type of article is called an advertorial. it is advertising that appears in the editorial pages of the publication, but it is advertising. many journalists will not write such articles as they are unfavourably viewed on one's resume.
this is what you are being asked to produce: advertorials. you pay the journal to publish your article. in effect you are buying space. a research article accepted by an actual journal carries a gravitas and authority those other journals cannot give it.
the industry sees what goes on: these publisher/journals etc are termed a vanity press.
gapbodhitaru.org
gapgyan.org
gapinterdisciplinarities.org
Above journals are not charging any fees for publication
When you have been approached by a journal, most probably this is a predatory (vanity) one. However, publication fees / processing charges / page charges (or whatever it is called) is not a criterium for a predatory journal. Most serious and high-ranking journals demand fees for publications. But they do not need to approach you to submit a paper. See also the following discussions:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_article_processing_charge_and_why_the_publication_fee_is_charged_to_Author
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Article_Processing_Charge
https://www.researchgate.net/post/A_research_paper_costs_more_to_publish_than_a_Car
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Publishing_open_access_for_1000
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_difference_between_Pay_and_Publish_versus_Free_Publication_in_terms_of_publishing
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is-it-quite-the-same-a-predatory-journal-and-a-journal-that-charges-for-publishing
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_know_the_journals_which_paid_royalties_to_authors
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_ACTUAL_COST_OF_A_PUBLICATION
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_true_that_only_open_access_journals_charge_publication_fee_while_subscription_journals_do_not_charge
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_impact_of_high_article_processing_charges_on_research_publication_activities_in_low_and_middle_income_countries
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-much-does-someone-pay-to-publish-in-this-journal
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_does_Nature_Open_Access_charge_so_much_to_publish
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_your_opinion_on_the_journals_where_you_pay_a_fee_to_be_able_to_publish_your_paper
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What-is-a-open-access-journal-How-can-we-recognize-it-and-what-are-the-benefits-to-publish-a-journal-in-it
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Free_science_What_do_you_think_about_paying_to_read_a_scientific_article_even_though_you_know_that_its_authors_dont_get_paid_for_it
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_all_scientific_research_be_made_open_access
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Open_access_free_of_charge_should_we_change_the_roles_of_publishing
thanks for all the links!
are you telling me that you have to pay nature or the lancet etc to publish your article? (i have looked at some of the costs that are appended to the various publications in one stable of publications and am appalled. nobody can justify the high fees - let's not forget the subscription costs and the reprint costs.)
for this discussion i was thinking of the sausage factories that focus particularly on non-native english speakers, whose manuscripts always need work, and for which work these publications charge exorbitant fees. i have come across several of these while working on ESL papers. the authors were sent flattering letters - with pages of exorbitant fees attached.
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