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Elsevier, a Dutch firm that is the world's biggest journal publisher, had a margin last year of 38% on revenues of £2.1 billion $3.2 billionn).
I'll tell you who: Pete Binfield, who was the editor-in-chief of PLOS ONE as it became the world's biggest journal.
Damian Pattinson, the editorial director of PLoS One, the latter group's biggest journal, calls Rubriq's service "useful", though he admits that details of how it will work have yet to be sorted out.The customers of a Finnish firm, Peerage of Science, are not authors, but journals themselves; 23 have signed up so far.
All are modeled on PLoS ONE, the publisher's biggest journal (and main revenue generator).
This has lead not only to the advent of open access publishers, such as BioMed Central, and online repository-type journals such as the PLoS ONE (part of the Public Library of Science and the biggest journal in the world, with 23,468 papers published in 2012), but also to the flourishing of "open access" practices.
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Why should the owners of the one or two biggest journals get to decide the fate of your scientific career, or even the fate of science in general?
I use a big journal for my morning pages, and I keep a running tab in it: "Did you take extra slacks, extra contact lens, extra lens solution, good perfume?" I do think there's something comforting about it.
The latest newsy study (embargoed by a big journal, no doubt) with profound political or social consequences is in most cases a modest increment to our knowledge base, and its novelty is probably a reflection of perfectly legitimate choices in research design or data collection.
He says that they were ready to publish a paper in a small dermatology journal but decided to pull it and publish more definitive results in a bigger journal.
He says they were ready to publish a paper in a small dermatology journal, but decided last monthto pull the paper and publish more definitive results in a bigger journal.
But the big journals' reputations are only partly warranted.
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