When the nature publishing group first introduced scientific reports, there was a lot of comparison between this journal and PLOS ONE. Both had a similar philosophy: "the journal will not reject papers based on their perceived impact"
PLOS even welcomed Nature. Both charged the authors a similar fee and many argued why PLOS one was better than scientific reports. As time has progressed, scientific reports has an impact factor of around 5 now while PLOS ONE has decreased to around 3.5. PLOS ONE publishes roughly 100 papers per day.
The nature publishing group has recently converted Nature communications into a completely open access journal. Therefore, if you want to publish there, you just need to pay $5200, roughly what you will pay a project assistant for a year.
4 comments:
Ha Ha, Are you really paying 5200 dollars per year to a project asst ?
I think IISc Ph.D students get 28000 per month, add 30% HRA if they stay outside
Research associates in IISc get 40000 per month so the numbers seem to match and 5200 $$ per year or so...
"The nature publishing group has recently converted Nature communications into a completely open access journal. Therefore, if you want to publish there, you just need to pay $5200, roughly what you will pay a project assistant for a year." gives an impression that there is 100% acceptance.
In reality, they do intend to be highly selective. The actual press release is below:
"Ms Burridge said Nature Communications would continue to be highly selective, publishing only around 18 per cent of papers submitted to it, when it makes the switch from 20 October. Its article fee will also remain unchanged at £3,150 or $5,200. A range of licences will be offered, including the permissive CC BY which is required by Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust."
So it is a little more than just paying the open access fees :)
I did not say that you pay and you can publish. What I meant that if you want to publish there, you have to pay.
Scientific reports (published by Nature publishing group) and PLOS one are journals with impact factors of 4-5. Nature comm is around 10.
There are enough journals in these categories where one can publish without paying.
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