Cost in high impact journals: The problem for researchers from low and middle income countries
Journal Title: Public Health Review - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: Research publication is an important means of career progression for young professionals. At many universities, it is a mandatory requirement to publish a certain number of research paper for raise, promotion, or even recruitment. Today wider acceptance of the open access model has increasingly shifted the cost of publication from the reader to the researcher. The present study aims to study the processing and publication, pricing of index journals. Method: This was anobservational study, studying journals indexed in one of the freely indexing services. We retrieved list of all journals indexed in PubMed between June and December 2015 from the website. We non randomly selected 150 of these for further evaluation study. The outcome measure was publication cost, and pre-processing cost. We retrieved cost related to publication and publication site of the journal from the official website of these selected journals. For cost estimation, a typical article length of 15 pages was assumed. We excluded journals whose websites did not provide information regarding such cost or were in any language other than English. Results: Out of 5623 indexed journals in PubMed as of July 2015, 150 journals were included in the study. A total of 33 journals was excluded, remaining 117 journals formed the final sample size of this study. Nearly 80% of the journals had publication cost. The median cost of publication of a typical paper was 2590 US$. More than three quarter of the journals were published from the developed world like United States of America, United Kingdom and European region. Conclusion: Though the cost of publication was not uniformly high, the average cost was relatively high for researchers in low and middleincomecountries. It could be as much as one-month’s salary of these professionals. This could be a hindrance for publishing research and in the career advancement of these researchers
Authors and Affiliations
Arti Gupta, Venkatashiva Reddy, Hariom Kumar Solanki
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP341210
- DOI 10.17511/ijphr.2018.i1.06.
- Views 147
- Downloads 0
Health status of traffic police personnel in Chennai city
Background: The work environment constitutes an important part of man’s total environment, so health to a large extent is affected by work conditions. These personnel have to undergo physical strain in an environment pol...
Prevalence of hypertension and its risk factors among adults in central Kerala
Introduction: High blood pressure is both preventable and treatable. Community based studies on the prevalence of hypertension is now necessary to assess the prevalence of hypertension & its risk factors. Epidemiological...
Exclusive Breast feeding Practices among Yoruba and Hausa ethnic groups in South West Nigeria: a comparative Study
Introduction: Knowledge and attitude of mothers towards the practice of exclusive breast feeding is high, however, in spite of the advantages accrued to its practice, the practice of exclusive breastfeeding is low among...
Prevalence and pattern of menstrual disorders among school going adolescents in northern district of Kerala
Background: Adolescents face a range of health challenges, numerous information and guidance regarding adolescent health remaining ignored due to constraints at different levels of health system.One of the main problems...
Prevalence of depression amongst adolescents in rural area of South India – a school based cross sectional study
Introduction:Depression is common in adolescents and especially in high school students and is one of the most frequent mental disorders among teenagers. Depression in adolescents is an under recognized mental health pro...