Mr. Brand and other administrators say journal price increases contribute to the rising cost of higher education, adding that universities often pay for the research their professors contribute free to profitable journals.
Once-profitable journals are bleeding money and readers.
With its credit rating classified as "junk," the company is unable to borrow money cheaply enough to make lending profitable, the Journal reported.
He goes on to reveal that staff at the profitable Wall Street Journal are none too delighted to be decoupled from the safety net of the entertainments business and yoked instead to loss-making papers, such as The Times and Sunday Times, New York Post and the struggling Australian outfit.
To be profitable a scientific journal must reject manuscripts that are not found to be sufficiently interesting to a broad readership.
It is noted that scientific heterogeneity of publications is often a consequence of the need to make journals profitable.
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There are a lot more of the low impact journals which could render them more profitable despite lower profit margins.
"She organized her territory and her personnel and got things done, in my mind more effectively and more forcefully than her predecessors," Phillips said, adding that, under House, the Journal in Asia and Europe became profitable.
We finally think that the development of this type of journal should be especially profitable for soil ecology that has developed, as we have shown, too independently from the rest of ecology, theoretical ecology and evolutionary ecology.
