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The cost of publishing in




                                                                                                                    Editorials
today's scientific e-world
                  Constantinus POLITIS
                  MD, DDS, MM, MHA, PhD
                  Professor & Chairperson
                  Editor-in-Chief



Dear readers,
Dear authors,

According to Stephen Buranyi, scientific writer with the Guardian, scientific publishing is a vast business,
with revenues varying between the music recording and film industries, but far more profitable. Therefore,
it is not difficult to understand why the scientific publishing business is so profitable. After all, researchers
need publications to advance in their career. The majority of scientific journals offer article submissions using
online manuscript manager platforms, which resulted in a transition from editorial staff to contributing
authors to complete the submission process and to comply with a whole series of journal guidelines.
If research teams want to access their own publications, they often have to pay subscription fees to the journal
in which the publication appeared. Although these licensing contracts are often arranged centrally, where
universities conclude contracts with major publishing companies. It becomes even better if the authors
want to publish their articles open access. A few thousand euros per accepted manuscript is no exception.
Would you like your figures to be published in color? No problem, but extra fees are charged. No manuscript
in proper English without the aid of a specialized editing and proofreading company: a costly companion.
Not difficult to understand why the editorial world is contaminated with questionable and predatory
journals that keep young scientists lurking from decent journals. The business model is further fuelled by the
universities longing for rankings. Rankings are necessary to attract investors and for international prestige.
A high ranking requires a high number of publications numbers, citations and h-indexes, which only increases
the pressure on researchers. The only way out is an inter-university platform of open access journals with
thorough peer review and statistical assistance that even further improve the manuscripts and contributions
quality. This, however, requires changing grant approval criteria by national, European and international
funding bodies. When a career evaluation is conducted by the universities, these open-access publication
metrics should be included in the evaluation criteria. Within this traditional scientific world of profit-making
organizations there is room for simple-hearted journals with broad access, a wide range of interest and
free contributions with a swift peer review process, still flexible for entry-level contributions. As soon as an
impact factor is assigned to a journal, the number and quality of the submissions increases and an upward
swing begins. In the meantime, the Editorial Board of the Stomatology Edu Journal responds meticulously
to all requirements to meet the compliance standards of global citation databases and free full-text archives
on biomedical and life sciences journals.



Sincerely yours,

C. Politis
Editor-in-Chief




                                                     https://doi.org/10.25241/stomaeduj.2020.7(1).edit.1



Stoma Edu J. 2020;7(1): 01                                               pISSN 2360-2406; eISSN 2502-0285                1