国际顶级科学杂志(Nature Communications)狂收中国科学家文章发表费!
难道花钱就能发表所谓国际高水平论文？
Because you can pay to publish it, it simply does not make sense! We should ask a question who will benefit more from such deal.
Scientists as a whole use the tax payers money to do research, and this research would benefit the tax payers or society in an ideal case. However, how can scientists pay the journal to publish their research? In this deal, the people who run the journal make a big money or profit. The scientists publish their their research in the journal to get their reputation, so that they use such reputation to get more fund (money) from the funding agency (paid by tax payers via the government). This circle would continue, and continue. From such a circle, the tax payers benefit nothing and cannot get anything!
I think the fund agency should look into such deal - that scientists pay the journal to publish their research! Otherwise, the tax payers will not be happy with such unethical deal - 'paying the journal to publish trash research'. Why should the public continue funding those gabbage research?
See below for details.
Article processing charges | Nature Communications
www.nature.com › nature communications › about the journal
Nature Communications is an open access journal. To publish in Nature Communications, authors are required to pay an article processing charge (APC).
The APC for all published papers is as follows, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable:
£3,150 (UK and rest of world)
$5,200 (The Americas)
€3,700 (Europe)
¥661,500 (Japan)
RMB33,100 (China)
Visit our open research site for further information about Nature Communications APCs and APC payment FAQs.
This is only an example. There are so many journals that charge APCs. Too bad, unbelievable! Oh, yeh. This is a green industry! Ridiculous!