Is the page fee of 4000 yuan expensive? Wu Kai architectural culture expert of Nanjing Tiangong believes that it depends on which journal the author publishes. If it is a general problem, the price may be expensive at first glance, but it depends on the author's specialty and direction. For example, for medical or educational subjects, the page fee is generally not cheap, and it is difficult to publish.

However, if it is a general science and engineering class, the difficulty of publishing will be relatively low. If this is the price of periodicals, then this price is not expensive. If it is the price of other publications, it must be expensive.

Different journals have different publication fees, such as 600- 1500 yuan for general journals and 2000-4000 yuan for core journals, and other journals do not charge publication fees.

Now with the reform of China HowNet, the number of words included in many publications has increased, and the edition fee has also increased. Generally, it is more than 1500 yuan, and the page fee for publishing papers is getting higher and higher.

Generally speaking, the publication fee refers to the cash fee charged by the editorial department of a regular academic journal to the author after publishing his article.

Publishing fees are generated in the prosperous environment of academic journals and academic research; Judging from the constituent elements and procedures of the page fee itself, the page fee is a voluntary contract behavior of both parties, which is a slap in the face and there is no violation of law and discipline; But fundamentally speaking, the publishing fee of academic journals is rooted in the unreasonable scientific research evaluation mechanism in China.

"Page fee" has long been an open secret of domestic academic circles, and the paper industry chain with page fee as the core has developed to a considerable scale. According to the latest media data, although the number of periodical papers published by scientific and technical personnel in China ranks among the top in the world, the average citation rate is 100, which ranks outside the world. The reason can be said that the page fee has played a great role in boosting.