Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

brogrammableben t1_iy7zwmd wrote

Reply to comment by Expert-Hurry655 in ELI5: why scientific reasearch are not free to public by Purple_zither

Authors don’t get paid from journals and if they do, it’s barely anything. When you pay for an article, you’re not paying the author. You’re paying the publisher. It’s largely a scam but one that is required by academia.

6

Purple_zither OP t1_iy8135f wrote

yes that's what i heard as well, and also apart from that authors need to pay for their papers to get published in the first place

1

tarrt t1_iyafqt0 wrote

This is more often the case with open access journals and a lot of the time the department of the researcher or the grant funding the research will have some funds set aside to pay for this. This is becoming more common, but a lot of the more prestigious journals (where publishing is more likely to help your reputation for tenure or getting more funding) aren't open access, at least not yet. It used to be the case that any journal that required you to pay to publish something was more than likely a scam: a journal with little to no review process that would publish just about anything, meaning most people wouldn't bother reading your research if they saw it published there. Things are definitely changing, but slowly.

1

Expert-Hurry655 t1_iy8169s wrote

Im not talking about the paper but the actual research, the money the scientists needs to pay to the publisher is normaly covered by the employer.

−1