PLOS ONE Output Falls Following Impact Factor Decline

[Pikas, Christina K.]

$1350, per: http://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/
 
Plus there are new mega journals from Sage, IEEE, Nature, and other publishers that compete with PlosOne.

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I understand that it costs $3500 to have an article published in PLOS ONE.  Times have been tough economically in the world, and this may have something to do with the drop in submissions and publication.  You can post on arXiv for nothing, and Google will get you there.  Google Scholar metrics show high retrieval rates  from certain subject categories in arXiv.  This is the time not of the open access journal but the open access institutional repository.  The scientific journal system is probably not financially feasible anymore, given high cancellation rates by academic libraries, and the open access institutional repository will probably replace it.. 


Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D.
LSU Libraries
Lousiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
USA
   

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Philip Davis sent:
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Hari M. Gupta, José R. Campanha, and Rosana A. G. Pesce, "Power-Law Distributions for the Citation Index of Scientific Publications and Scientists", "Brazilian Journal of Physics", vol. 35, no. 4A, December, 2005
claimed:
"[. . .]
Table I: Citations of the 20 most cited physicists from January 1981 to June 1997 [. . .] Table II: Citations of the 20 most cited chemists from January 1981 to June 1997 [. . .] [. . .] It is interesting to note that only two of them (P.W. Anderson, and K. A. Muller, at the 13th and 17th places, respectively), out of the 20 most cited physicists, and six (J. A. Pople, R. R. Ernst, J. M. Lehn, R. E. Smalley, E.
J. Corey, and K. Tanaka, at the 2nd, 4th, 10th, 12th, 16th, and 20th places, respectively), out of the 20 most cited chemists, are Nobel laureates.
[. . .]"