Journals examines academic publishing itself: peer review, editorial practice, open access and the economics of getting research into print.
Journals examines academic publishing itself: peer review, editorial practice, open access and the economics of getting research into print.
Universities now bundle journal subscriptions and open-access fees into single contracts, and by 2025 Europe had signed several hundred of them.
Open access moved publishing costs from library subscriptions to author-side fees, and the average APC now runs from a few hundred dollars to well over ten thousand.
The registered-reports format moves the acceptance decision to before data collection, locking in methods and analysis plans to keep negative results publishable.
Anonymizing authors from reviewers is meant to strip bias from publishing, but leaks, statistical guessing, and the sheer scale of modern papers limit what blinding can do.