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True open-access journals can be split into two categories: diamond or platinum open-access journals, which charge no additional publication, open access or article processing fees; gold open-access journals, which charge publication fees (also called article processing charges, APCs).
While publication charges occur upon article acceptance, article submission fees are charged prior to the start of peer review; they are common among journals in some fields, e.g., finance and economics. [23] Page charge may refer to either publication or submission fees.
Fee-based open access publishing has been criticized on quality grounds, as the desire to maximize publishing fees could cause some journals to relax the standard of peer review. Although, similar desire is also present in the subscription model, where publishers increase numbers or published articles in order to justify raising their fees.
Some open access journals (under the gold, and hybrid models) generate revenue by charging publication fees in order to make the work openly available at the time of publication. [ 76 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The money might come from the author but more often comes from the author's research grant or employer. [ 77 ]
Such journals are typically smaller than equivalent commercial journals (often supported by academic societies). [5] Main criteria include: adherence to the Fair Open Access Principles that are publicly supported by many renowned scientists, publication of article titles and abstracts in English, clear publication ethics and quality assurance ...
The Forum of Mathematics, an open access journals co-created by Timothy Gowers, was the first publication to explicitly claim to be a diamond journal: "For the first three years of the journal, Cambridge University Press will waive the publication charges. So for three years the journal will be what Marie Farge (who has worked very hard for a ...
The Journal of Individual Psychology; Journal of Mind and Behavior; Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; Journal of Neuropsychology; Journal of Nonverbal Behavior; Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; The Journal of Positive Psychology ...
A study in 2015 found that predatory journals rapidly increased their publication volumes from 53,000 in 2010 to an estimated 420,000 articles in 2014, published by around 8,000 active journals. [ 29 ] [ 68 ] Early on, publishers with more than 100 journals dominated the market, but since 2012 publishers in the 10–99 journal size category ...