First, it is a helpless move for magazines to charge page fees.

In the past, academic periodical agencies received state funding every year, and the maintenance of magazines mainly depended on state funding. However, since 2002, with the reform of the national system, all publishing units in the country have implemented "enterprise management of public institutions", and all expenses of magazines must be self-financing. Academic journals, because the distribution is generally limited to some scientific research institutions, have little income. "Self-financing" has led to the closure of many academic journals or turned to literary journals with large circulation. In 2003, a few academic journals tried to pay for publishing to make up for the lack of funds, which soon succeeded. In the following years, many academic journals followed suit. So, up to now, most journals need authors to pay for their papers.

Second, the paper publishing industry is chaotic.

In order to further expand the number of manuscripts, many academic journals have set up many paper editing or editing stations in various regions to organize manuscripts nationwide. And cooperate with influential websites to solicit contributions. For this reason, there are also many paper publishing websites (this website is naturally included). Some websites even deliberately exaggerate their working hours, claiming that they have more than ten years of experience in publishing papers. The paid publication of academic papers is actually only four or five years. I really don't know where to start with this decade's experience. What's more, the words "ranking list of paper publishing websites" are printed. I really don't know who is judging this ranking list. First of all, at present, the paper publishing industry is still in a state of rebellion and courage. Without a guild or alliance, it is naturally difficult to compare and select, let alone a "ranking". Third, the state does not allow such institutions to publish papers, let alone recognize them. Even with the problem of "page fee", the country is still depressed. Permission will encourage academic corruption. Not allowed, it will also affect the current domestic scientific research achievements and professional title selection.

Fake periodicals and illegal periodicals are rampant. Driven by interests, many criminals use fake or illegal periodicals to deceive the majority of authors. Among them, especially the Chinese core periodicals, because of the small number of periodicals and limited layout, the page fee has been high. Many authors are difficult to publish even if they spend money, so criminals look for loopholes and use illegal journals or fake journals to deceive the majority of authors.

Third, the author published a paper, how to avoid being cheated?

1, try to choose some reputable intermediaries.

Formal intermediaries should have the following standards: ① fixed telephone, which can be opened at any time; ② Fixed office space for on-site visit; And (3) when the author needs to verify the employment of the manuscript, he can provide the office phone number of the relevant editor of the relevant magazine. ④ The website design level is not very bad.

2. Submit directly to the magazine.

Writing directly to magazines is usually an insurance strategy. The only disadvantage of delivering magazines is that magazines generally have limited manpower (4-5 people are working), but there are many manuscripts. Therefore, there are often places where the service is not in place, such as losing the manuscript and not giving the manuscript inquiry process.

3. Check the website of the General Administration of Press and Publication for the regularity of publications.