Wednesday, 14 February 2018

publications - Why would professors pay to publish in a good journal?


The journal that I think of specifically is Physical Review Letters. I've heard that professors pay pretty high amounts to get published in this journal, which is considered a good, if not top-tier, journal.


When then would profs use their funding to pay for this? If the work is good enough for a good journal, why not just submit it elsewhere, where there are no fees?




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