I would like my colleagues to comment on my next observation: Many researchers publish their texts in magazines that charge their services. Are there serious reasons for this phenomenon?
How is it possible that some researchers are willing to pay a considerable amount of money to publish their text, while, on the other hand, we have many magazines that are free
It is usually easier and sometimes faster to publish the text of lower quality in journals that charge money for that.
I already answered a similar question on RG:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_ethical_to_pay_a_journal_substantially_to_publish_a_paper
Dear Daniel,
Like Karl, I think that I answered a similar question on RG. I think that when you refer to magazines you mean scientific journals. Even so, the gist of my answer should have been the following:
(1) Journals with charging costs are generally considered by the scientific community as journals of low quality.
(2) Journals with charging costs are, to an extent, predatory journals because they look more for money than the quality of what they publish.
(3) I refuse to pay for having may papers published. To prepare a paper to have it published generally requires hard work and even material costs (e.g., to purchase a book or books on the topic aat hand). Thus, it seems to me to be almost immoral that some journals want us to work and pay for our work. It is a kind of slavery. The publish or perish policy is greatly responsible for this unfortunate state of affairs.
Best regards.
Orlando
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