.I think Most of ISI journals are without fees. Also I think the ISI journals are better than the other journals. The conclusion is the unpaid journal are better than the paid journal expect some paid ISI journals such as ASME and The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery …etc.
It depends. Some paid journals are of good quality, particularly those associated with a prestigious organisation such as the American Institute of Physics (e.g Environmental Research Letters), or the Royal Society of Chemistry (e.g Energy & Environmental Science). Both journals have good Impact Factors. Other paid journals--probably most--are not worth the effort.
It depends on many factors. However in recent years the two major open access publishers (BMC and Public Library of Science) have substantially increased their impact factor, precisely because of the free access to their contents
Paid or unpaid journal publication is immaterial! What is important is the impact factor (I.F) of the journal to the specific research area. Some of the unpaid journals, especially ones attached to institute, publish very low grade journals, but this does not suffice to say that some of the paid journals do not have questionable findings. I always advise researcher to look out for I.F and some issues of a candidate journal, if worth publishing in before manuscript submission.
I think this question is similar to a previous one about the open access journal. The open access journal requires a processing fee from authors to publish their papers. The quality of the journals are factually dependent on the papers published, instead of the fee. Some paid journals are really good with IF more than 5.0. However, I guess a larger portion of the paid journals are not as good as unpaid journals indexed or associated with good database, because most of the paid journal are now launched journals and do not have a rigorous peer-review process to control the paper quality.
Absolutely unpaid journals. Of course it depends on its impact factor and other aspects like the importance within a particular area. However, unpaid journals usually are correlated with high impact factors and relevance.
Usually I prefer unpaid Journals, with one exception: Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, which is of very good quality
There are no unpaid journals except (relatively speaking) for arXive. I always wonder why should they get all the qualified labor (like at first place research, editing, referring) for free and then sell to libraries for crazy money?! Once upon a time when universities managed their own journals on limited budget the model was justified, but now with big sharks like Elsevier and Kluwer it amounts to robbery.
You have to precise the role of the one who pays.
The authors have to pay in some journals and have not to pay in some others. The Elsevier and Springer journals in which I have published frequently have not the author fee. But, if you want to present some color photos or to get some hard-copies of your papers, you have to pay for it.
On the other hand, the readers have to pay for the possibility to read. In fact, in most cases, this are the readers institutions which pay the right to access to the journals.
Finally, the publishers have to earn some money in order to pay to their employes, owners and it is impossible to expect the miracles. Someone has to pay...
Unpaid journals are highly competitive and only a few % of papers are selected. therefore, they may be in high-quality. Further, unpaid journals are very helpful for researchers from developing countries.
Unpaid journals are possibly competitive and exercise reduced speed in processing the submitted paper relative to the paid journals. If paying money is not a problem paid journals can be considered for rapid publication. However, the introduction of paid journal created the limited options for researchers where money (fee submission) is uneasy.
People from the developing countries, and not associated with an academic institution (where most journals are available), open access is one's only choice. The cost of one paper is the equivalent of feeding a poor family for a month.
I think that, in the long term, open access will get the majority of references and their impact ratings will become comparable to that of the pay journals.
It is always better to publish in unpaid journals. More than paid or unpaid one should ensure that the article should be peer reviewed by the reputed researchers in the area of research. Also the impact and popularity of the journal matters a lot.
Thanks for all, above comments. There are also High ranked payed like Applied optics and optics express.
It depends: I know a Journal which is very reputed, in the air pollution field and is paid. It is the Journal of Air & Waste Managing Association (USA), and the reason it is paid is because the publisher is a non-profit organization.
As with everything in life, there are very serious journals that do not require a fee and meet others that are not in the fee does not have an acceptable level. From my point of view, the best options are the journals from diverse publishing houses, who have the backing of the ISI-Institute of Science Index, and I consider the best option for publishing. Even Elsevier offers the scheme of fee to open access, which is at the discretion of the author.
A very good choice for serious publishers, is Intech, which charges for publishing your scientific papers, chapters or book, but that being open access, allow greater visivilidad your scientific contributions.
Greetings.
For me, the best journal should be ISI indexed and with a high impact factor
I haven't published in a paid Journal before. I do receive emails once in a while from paid journals. What I can't really tell is if the paid journal is fraudulent or real. However for the unpaid journals, it is better to go for the established ones. Probably start with the one with low impact factor to 'cut your teeth', then you can gradually move up to the Journals with high impact factor. That has been my approach.
However in reality people take you seriously if you publish in journal with high impact factor. So for me, what matters isn't if the journal is paid or unpaid, but if the people that matter in my field read that journal. If it is a paid journal and people that matter in my field read it, I'd strive to publish there.
However, I am not aware of a paid journal with high impact factor. If you are aware of some, I'd love to have a look at their previous publications.
It depends on the impact factor of the journal, in fact more cited articles increase the repution of authors if their work are accepted by the editor of these higher IF jourals.
I never publish in a paid journal. Unpaid one apparently has far higher impacts. They sell our research articles and get paid by other users, but how come I do the research then i have to pay for it to be published.
Yes, what matters is the good scientific work that you are doing.
I did not found any unpaid journals. Can any one suggest what are those unpaid journals with good imapct factor and indexing
Most reputable unpaid journals are now publishing faster with the increasing introduction of open access option. My philosophy is also not to pay to have my research published but, if I have to, it must be in a reputable journal. Even some books will now invite contributions and then ask you to pay for publication - Quite frankly, I do not bother with those. You are better off saving your money and send your paper for publication in a reputable journal with a decent impact factor. Publishing your work in non-reputable journals will, in the long-term, not give you the recognition you and your research deserves. Better to publish less papers in reputable journals than to publish many more in non-reputable journals.
Can any one suggest me some of the websites for reputable journals with the good impact factor.
There are a huge amount of journals out there & rightly or wrongly, I find having to pay someone for your work to be published a bit suspect. The community knows the reputable publishers, so I guess to have to ask - what is your aim in getting the work published?
In terms of practical experience, rapid processing of paid journals is indeed attractive. For example I submitted a paper to an unpaid reputed journal, however the journal provided the decision in during second year following the submission. With such long time in pending it is not easy to afford publishing in paid journal. Paid journals are making decision in time of weeks. However, the question of suspect to paid journal, and working hard for research work and then arranging money for paid journal is indeed not easy till to date in several developing countries. Some journals are charging up to US $ 1000/- (researcher may wish to have that for his work award but not to pay in publishing). It may be the matter of time when paid journal should generate a more acceptable form for most researchers around the globe in terms of quality or suspect, and NO MONEY NO PROBLEM.
Some of them are equally good, for example in Elsevier journals you can choose regular form of publishing or open access. It is new option there.
Hi Robert - Elsevier OA says: 'As there are no subscription charges for Open Access Journals, a fee is payable by the author or research funder to cover the costs associated with publication. Our open access publication fees range from $500-$5000USD. Visit the individual journal homepages for specific pricing information.' http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-journals
So, paid journal publishing may get you 'quickly published', but by who, where & are the IF etc representative of the quality of work published (perhaps though this is another question) .... & who pays & why ???
I think paid ones give your work an extra point when you look for professional recognition, but I think open access publication, gives your work a much more possibilities of getting your work share and showed to as much public as possible.
Hmmm ... professional recognition.
Who is going to get the ball rolling on that one ;-)
There are many free journals with reasonable impact factors in many areas which are published fastly (turn around time to get published is only 2- 6 months). We must have the patience to search for them.
I quite impressed to read this healthy exchange views about publication.
Thanks for posting the question, I wanted to ask and I m happy I have got the answer.
We have to be patient to search for a best journal for our paper, unpaid with good impact factor.
Look for journals with high SI (Scientific Index) and known publisher such as Springer, Elsevier etc. Further, look for journal with good peer-review - it is always good to get feedback on your articles so that you can get even better the next time :) Good Luck!
.I think Most of ISI journals are without fees. Also I think the ISI journals are better than the other journals. The conclusion is the unpaid journal are better than the paid journal expect some paid ISI journals such as ASME and The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery …etc.
An interesting and comprehensive discussion related to the core of current topic may be seen at :
The OA Interviews: Ahmed Hindawi, founder of Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Open And Shut, September 17, 2012 Founded in 1997, Hindawi Publishing Corporation was the first subscription publisher to convert its entire portfolio of journals to Open Access (OA). This has enabled the company to grow very rapidly ..........
available at http://www.hindawi.com/in.the.press/
Note, that is possible to publish a paper in Hindawi journal absolute free - they often make some promo action
It becomes a problem when you have in mind that it is free but just before the paper's publication, due to special conditions, they ask for a kind of contribution.
Well, I agree with you. That case can be amusing. But they (Hindawi) not really persistent.
If payment was for online access, color photos in hard prints it is OK, it would not affect the caliber of Journal and editors. Howevere payment for editing fees is questionable. Moreover the duration of editorial processing and review is dependant upon the devotion and collaboration of editorial team and reviewers. Many high IF journal can finalize the decision of one manuscript in no more than 1 month.
I do say unpaid are better than paid journals. The cost could be covered not from authors but from other source like advertizment/public institutions. I absolutely agree that research work has to be read by scientists and therefore, authors need to publish their work without hardle of payment
Generally open access journal's take money to publish the papers. Such journal's made these papers freely available to world wide researchers. And now most of the open access journal's have good impact factor than unpaid journal's
As an active editor I have been a direct witness of the 'change' from 'unpaid' to 'paid'. From 'advertisement mafia' to 'humble authors'. I will write less but hopefully you will pick up the answers from in between the lines.
1) The best tool is bad in dishonest hands and the worst tool works well in honest hands.
2) In 'those' days when we used to publish articles without so called 'processing fee', some of us were sponsored fully or partly by our parent organizations like professional societies or universities BUT mostly we used to beg for advertisements from industry. There were a few famous incidents of dishonesty that became famous but we are all witness to the 'big companies' influencing publications (even of clinical trials) in the elitist of the journals. You can dig out these cases from internet. Mostly they involved ever corrupt medicines and diagnostic kits manufacturers. However having said this I would estimate that most of the journals at least tried to work honestly.
3) 'Processing fee virus' was endemic in late 20th century, became epidemic in early 21st century and is now pandemic. Trust me my dears it would suffice to say if the journal belongs to a trustworthy scientific organization, university or printing house, now there is least chance of corruption.
4) 100% journals of developed world have yearly audits and processing fee of the articles is hardly enough for printing and running the office of journal. There is no income at all for organizations with one or two journals. Believe u in me that most of the scientific socities do not earn anything from the journals, they rather spend on them. An example is American Physiological Society with now 8 journals, and all of them 'earning' nil.
5) Yes the big printing houses get processing fee from authors & actively look for advertisements to increase return in their investment. But most of them have given the journal and its peer review 100% in hands of trustworthy editorial boards.
6) Yes I repeat in dishonest hands even the ideal tools become bad, we editors know of some journals mainly E-journals who are suspicious.
Summary: See the organization behind the journal, and editors, and if you think they are trustworthy then take my word for a hypothesis to work on .....”Processing fee paid by the ‘poor authors’ is better than ‘advertisement or owners’ money’ for maintaining transparency and standard of scientific publications.
I think that the question of the pros and cons of paid and unpaid journals has very much to do with power. Whereas authors have some leverage (i.e. payment) with the unpaid varieties, the unpaid journals hold all power vis-à-vis would be authors.
It is often said that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Now it is a fact that universities and research centres have made it mandatory on their faculty and staff members to publish or perish, and by doing so they have relinquished whatever power they had onto research journals, and research journals in their turn have delegated this absolute power on certain reviewers of their choice who happen to have whatever credentials the said journals deem necessary in their reviewers of choice but who may or may not be worthy or capable of holding so much power over their innumerable powerless colleagues. It is further a known fact that those chosen power-holder reviewers have not always been entirely objective in their reviews and their acceptance or rejection of what is referred to them. Looking through well-established research journals one fails not to discover many a published article that is well below par. Furthermore, there is no lack of examples of good or excellent papers that have been rejected out of hand for less than objective reasons. To say that the standard of paid journals is higher on the whole than that of the unpaid journals is not necessarily true.
Quality of the Both Paid and Unpaid Journals are good only. The think is timing
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/sep/18/who-should-pay-to-publish-scientific-research
Very good article that talks about the differences of impact factor between specialities, which shows that the impact metric is a very skewed measure. It also de-bunks the myth that those who 'pay to publish' are producing inferior work. - Take time to read it :-)
In case of social sciences, the quality of the papers published in paid journals is extremely poor. An author should put the paper in dustbin instead of payment of the publication fee.
Why Isn't Academic Research Free to Everyone?
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/why-isnt-academic-research-free-to-everyone/382917/
Abul: Lots of funders demand that research is published in 'reputable journals', and some even state which level these have to be. It might not matter to us as individuals whether a journal has a high impact factor. For example, some of the scientific magazines or professional publications do not have an IF, but still have a huge readership. Personally, although I like to feel I value all forms of evidence, I am wary of journals that have no 'credential', when it comes to publishing primary research.
an any one suggest me nonpaid journals for medical image analysis.
CAN any one suggest me non paid journals got medical image analysis.
There are both good and bad paid journals out there, although the great majority of paid journals today are what are now termed 'predatory' journals. If you follow these journals in Google Scholar, you will find they have low citation rates--which means that not many find them interesting enough to cite. In unpaid journals, reviewing, it is true, is often arbitrary. For beginning researchers, it is perhaps best to start by sending your research to lower prestige reviewed journals, and more up to better paid journals as you gain experience and your research skills improve.
If the journal is indexed in SCI or SCIE, the payment or unpayment does not matter. The quality is the same...because, best and expert reviewers are invited to review the papers thoroughly. Papers may be accepted or rejected in any of the aforementioned journals.
It is better to choose an indexed journal and unpaid journal as compared to paid journal Bcs the quality of manuscripts publication may be compromised in paid journal.
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