I just noticed that my go-to journal increased its APC again.* Now there's a flat fee of $1095 so I am re-evaluating my options for impact neutral OA publishing. I don't think PeerJ is greedy, so I think the most likely explanation is be that their old model was not sustainable. I now feel I have been a bit to hard on some other OA publishers (e.g. here and here, but not here).
While price and impact-neutrality is the main consideration, open peer review is a nice bonus that I became accustomed to from PeerJ. In my experience it makes for much better reviews and keeps the tone civil.
Impact neutral journals
$750 ACS Omega (+ ACS membership $166/year). Closed peer review. WARNING: not real OA. You still sign away your copyright to the ACS.
$1000 F1000Research. Open peer review. Bio-related
$1095 PeerJ. Open peer review. Bio-related. PeerJ also has a membership model, which may be cheaper than the APC.
While price and impact-neutrality is the main consideration, open peer review is a nice bonus that I became accustomed to from PeerJ. In my experience it makes for much better reviews and keeps the tone civil.
Impact neutral journals
$750 ACS Omega (+ ACS membership $166/year). Closed peer review. WARNING: not real OA. You still sign away your copyright to the ACS.
$1000 F1000Research. Open peer review. Bio-related
$1095 PeerJ. Open peer review. Bio-related. PeerJ also has a membership model, which may be cheaper than the APC.
(The RSC manages "the journal’s chemistry section by commissioning articles and overseeing the peer-review process")
$1350 Cogent Chemistry. Has a "pay what you can" policy. Closed peer review.
$1495 PLoS ONE. Closed peer review.
$1760 Scientific Reports. Closed peer review
$1350 Cogent Chemistry. Has a "pay what you can" policy. Closed peer review.
$1495 PLoS ONE. Closed peer review.
$1760 Scientific Reports. Closed peer review
Free or reasonably priced journals that judge perceived impact
$0 Chemical Science Closed peer review
$0 Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. Closed peer review.
$0 Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. Closed peer review.
$0 ACS Central Science. Closed peer review. ($500-1000 for CC-BY, WARNING: not real OA. You still sign away your copyright to the ACS as far as I know)
$0 Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. Closed peer review.
$0 Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. Closed peer review.
$0 ACS Central Science. Closed peer review. ($500-1000 for CC-BY, WARNING: not real OA. You still sign away your copyright to the ACS as far as I know)
$100 Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science. Closed peer review
€500 Chemistry2. Closed peer review.
£500 RSC Advances. Closed peer review. (Normally £750)
Let me know if I have missed anything.
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€500 Chemistry2. Closed peer review.
£500 RSC Advances. Closed peer review. (Normally £750)
Let me know if I have missed anything.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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