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.
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; Judging from the abused and collected pages, the page fees that should not have been collected by the pages are very painful, so the page fees are very wronged, and the accusations for no reason are too much; Judging from the actual situation and people's attitude towards it, the page fee is a very common and normal natural phenomenon in running a magazine. It is common for page fees to be refunded or not, so there is no need to interfere. It is important to purify and standardize the academic environment comprehensively and effectively, and improve the academic research level as a whole.
The page fee is generated in the prosperous environment of academic journals and academic research, and its appearance is not accidental, so there is no need to make a fuss.
The number of authors, especially the number of graduate students and teachers in colleges and universities is increasing year by year, and the number of academic papers needed is also increasing. Masters and doctors generally need to publish two academic papers in public journals at or above the provincial level. If you don't publish enough papers, you won't get a degree. Teachers' evaluation of professional titles also needs to publish a certain number of academic papers in core journals. It is the demand of college teachers and students to obtain degrees and titles that makes them flock to academic journals, and paying page fees has become a conscious behavior at all costs. For example, the journals of some colleges and universities in Guangzhou have provisions for charging the page fee for papers. Receiving academic papers is usually divided into internal manuscripts and external manuscripts, and generally only external manuscripts are charged according to the length.
The editing and publishing of academic journals has a cost, and the cost is rising because of the price increase of related commodities and labor. Although there are many academic journals, especially some prestigious academic journals, they never charge a page fee, and even the authors are rewarded. However, as long as it is an academic journal, its editorial department has to modify, edit and publish the manuscript, which requires a lot of manpower and cost. In the author's opinion, the cost of a paper should include two items besides publication fee and editing fee (including manuscript fee, review fee and editing fee): the salary of the editor and the office expenses (including business membership fee) to maintain the normal operation of the editorial department.
We can do a rough calculation: for example, an academic journal, six people, bimonthly, with 28 papers published and 230,000 words issued in each issue. Publishing fee+editing fee+salary+office fee = 10000 yuan +(230000× 300 yuan+1000 yuan) +(6 people× 2000 yuan× February) +( 12000 yuan ÷ 6 issues) = 43,300 yuan/28 articles = 1546 yuan, that is, the cost of publishing 1 article is 1546 yuan. How can there be a "free dinner" nowadays? Even the "cost-only" of merchants has become a gift and warm words for customers. For example, in addition to your registration fee and other fees, people have not forgotten to charge you a dollar for the answer sheet.
There is an international practice, which is approved by China Association for Science and Technology and supported by the author. The economically developed countries in the world have always regarded the publishing industry as an information industry, and it is a common practice and a normal thing to charge for publishing papers in their countries.
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