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Submission Fees Are Coming: There Are Better Alternatives

Journal submission fees are coming to organization and management research. California Management Review has just announced that it introduces submission fees of $75 to $150 per article submitted. Paying this fee is the precondition for even being considered for peer review, yet your article might still get desk rejected. The reason stated for this move is of course even higher submission numbers due to AI.

While submission fees are common in neighbouring disciplines such Economics, I still think they are a very bad idea: scholars from well-funded institutions (mostly situated in the Global North) won’t be affected but other scholars will be. It deepens the already enormous gulf in academic opportunity between well-funded and less well-funded research institutions, which is amplified by the self-reinforcing feedback loop of publication output and third-party funding input.

While submission fees might seem like a necessary fix to ever-increasing submission numbers outpacing reviewing capacities, there are alternative measures that could be taken:

• Per-author submission caps: journals could introduce a maximum of, for example, two active manuscripts or two submissions per year. This is a measure already tested by Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory since July 1 of this year.
• “Review before you submit” or journal peer-review credits: mandatory reviewing before submission would be a twofer, increasing the pool of reviewers while also reducing the number of submissions.
• Pitch-based two-step submission process: rather than processing full papers some journals (e.g., Journal of Management in its Special Calls for Qualitative Research Proposals) first require an extended abstract or short paper, with editors only inviting promising and in-scope manuscripts to proceed.

These are just three ad hoc measures that could be quite easily adopted and also combined with each other (see also Hanneke et al. (2026) for more). Addressing structural issues such as the problem of rewarding quantity over quality in academic evaluation or reducing inequality in reviewing loads by cross-journal reviewing limits would probably help even more, but these are no immediate solutions.

So, to all of you with editorial roles in the field of management and organization studies who are considering the introduction of submission fees: please first explore alternatives that do not further exacerbate the already significant social inequalities prevalent in contemporary academia.

📢 Call for Papers: Explore the Future of Organizational Behavior
How do workplace dynamics shape employee performance, attitudes, and organizational success?
We invite researchers and scholars to contribute to the Special Issue “Organizational Behavior: Employee Performance, Attitudes, and Workplace Dysfunction” in Administrative Sciences @mdpi.com
#OrganizationalBehavior #EmployeePerformance #WorkplaceWellbeing #HumanResourceManagement #AcademicPublishing

Poll.
1. Should I write another academic paper?

If YES should it be about
2a) the collapse of the knowledge commons
2b) data, consent and privacy in digital learning

3. NO. Don't bother, academic publishing is a busted flush, at least in education and humanities

(caveat: this post got zero reactions in bsky, which was a litmus test on engagement)

#academia #academicchatter #feedback #academicpublishing

This collection brings together calls for papers and research opportunities in special journal issues focusing on Human and Social Dynamics at Individual, Organizational, and Societal Levels.
What you can expect:
🔹 Calls for papers for special issues
🔹 Submission deadlines and key details
🔹 Research themes, aims, and scopes of collections
🔹 Opportunities to share your work with a global academic community
#AcademicPublishing #SpecialIssue #InterdisciplinaryStudies #ResearchOpportunities

🔍 Have you encountered a strange request from a publisher? Here's yet another bizarre tale from the trenches of predatory publishing 📚✨ #AcademicPublishing
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/yet-another-bizarre-request-from-a-predatory-publisher/

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI

https://fsolt.es/2026/08/springer-nature-discovers-mdpi/

What happens when today’s publication standards meet yesterday’s science?

The retraction of two Max Planck papers highlights the challenge of balancing research integrity with historical context.

🔗 https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted

#ScienceHistory #Research #Physics #AcademicPublishing

🎥 Academic publishing beyond the written article

The new peer-reviewed Audio/Visual Section of Mediální studia / Media Studies is inviting submissions for its inaugural 2027 issue.

Film, video, audiovisual and sound essays are welcome, particularly projects bringing academic research into dialogue with artistic and multimodal practices.

📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026

🔗 https://lnkd.in/e97ps3ZR

#CFP #MediaStudies #Multimodality #AcademicPublishing

The State Scientific And Technical Library Of Ukraine, and machine-translated from Ukrainian: MES opens interactive dashboard “Specialized publications of Ukraine”. “As part of the work of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to develop an open and transparent system of scientific professional publications, an interactive dashboard ‘Professional Publications of Ukraine’ was created. […]

“Research Gold, a site that advertises services for medical researchers, including drafting peer-review ready manuscripts, systemic reviews and meta-analyses, claims that it’s “100% human-written, never AI,” and lists a number of PhD reviewers and professional methodologists on staff that carry out this meticulous, difficult work.

The problem: The PhD reviewers Research Gold lists on its site are AI-generated and don’t exist. Other methodologists it lists are real, but are not aware their identity is being used by Research Gold. When I tried calling the company, an AI agent that refused to concede it was AI answered and kept trying to sell me Research Gold’s services. Email and chat communication with the company were also AI generated.”

https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchGold #PeerReview

Free software development and academic review work have this uncanny resemblance in the way companies and corporations treat them.

Corpos: Make and maintain this software / Review this research manuscript for us.

Devs/Academics: Please pay me.

Corpos: Lol, no. <<Insert gaslighting about the dev / reviewer "nOt doInG thEiR ParT fOr tHe coMmUnIty">>.

#softwaredevelopment #freesoftware #academia #academicpublishing #academicresearch

Cover article of Biofeed Science and Technology Issue 1:
Circular Biomanufacturing of Non-Grain Feeds: Synergizing Microbial Fermentation and Insect Bioreactors for Animal Health

DOI: 10.66729/bst202603002

🌐 Learn more: https://www.icjn.net/article/10.66729/bst202603002

#OpenAcess #Publishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicPublishing #KeyHighlight #RearchHighlight #AnimalScience #CoverArticle #Biotechnology #Biomanufacturing #Feed #Fermentation #AnimalHealth #Bioreactors #BiologicalFeed

New in Accountability in Research: responding to Holcombe et al., I propose separating structured Contributor Listings from narrative Acknowledgments. Make contributions visible—but do not standardize gratitude:
https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2026.2716269
#ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyCommunication #ContributorRecognition #AcademicPublishing #CRediT #Acknowledgments

The Register: How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era. “The 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USS), which takes place next week in Baltimore, Maryland, hit an all-time high for paper submissions. While some of that increase has been aided by the availability of AI tools, those managing the conference say abuses were minimal due to defensive measures. But […]

I inquired about the status of a manuscript I submitted to a regional journal 170 days ago. Apparently they are still looking for a second reviewer! #AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing

The Scholarly Kitchen: From Hub to Hustle: The Scattered Social Landscape in Scholarly Comms. “In the most recent SSP Pulse Check, the community weighed in on the way social media is being used and trusted (or neither) in scholarly communications. The insights revealed a complex picture of a time that remains uncertain and very much still evolving. To build on this data, we looked at past […]

Proposed Trump Administration ‘Guidance’ Alarms Researchers, Scholarly Publishers

Nearly 500,000 public comments were filed by the July 13 deadline, the overwhelming majority of them critical, writes contributor Peter Brantley, adding that, if adopted, the new federal rules would have disastrous consequences for the viability of U.S. research.
The post Proposed Trump Administration ‘Guidance’ Alarms Researchers, Scholarly Publishers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/08/proposed-trump-administration-guidance-alarms-researchers-scholarly-publishers/

#AcademicPublishing #Libraries #Research #Trumpadministration #US

BLOG: 'Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim

The post explores issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing raised by the acquisition, heightened by the emphasis on the anticipated role of #AI

👉 https://copim.pub/wileys-acquisition-of-emerald-some-observations-from-copim/

#Scale #AcademicPublishing

Daily Nous: New: Journal of Mathematical Philosophy. “It is now open to submissions in subject areas such as as formal epistemology, philosophical logic, philosophy of science, decision theory, philosophy of mathematics, formal metaphysics, philosophy of language, formal ethics, and philosophy of AI. Published by LMU Munich, the Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is a ‘diamond’ open-access […]

"A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.

The case, which became unsealed July 30, claims Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa forced U.S. research institutions to submit false claims to the government for reimbursement through article fees up to 10 times the cost of processing the articles.

Juan Pablo Alperin, a professor at Simon Fraser University and codirector of the Scholarly Communications Lab based in Vancouver, is represented by two attorneys who have had blockbuster success in FCA cases over the past decade. He and his attorneys originally filed the case under seal in March 2024. The government declined to intervene in the case on July 23 of this year, and a judge ordered the complaint unsealed, which now allows Alperin to pursue the case independently.

Sage was also originally listed as a defendant in the case, according to the court docket, and University of Ottawa researcher Stefanie Haustein was a plaintiff. Both were dropped from the suit last week."

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-major-publishers-article-processing-charges-false-claims-act/

#USA #AcademicPublishing #ArticleFees #Publishing #Oligopolies

A review of our collective monograph has appeared in Higher Education. The authors argue that the book introduces a new field: “sustainability under conflict conditions.” Who are we to disagree?
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01737-8

#HigherEducation #AcademicPublishing #BookReview #Ukraine #UniversityWithoutWalls #AcademicResilience #EducationInEmergencies

Our latest submission to JCP has been rejected as “out of scope” because the editor has interpreted the paper as being “an application”. A curious decision, since the paper is on how to compute acoustic terms efficiently and with higher precision compared to how it's usually done, and there are several applications, not one, where we show how this improves energy conservation and numerical stability in general.

The fact that the decision was taken by the editor *after* sending the paper out to reviewers, but claiming that it was made to avoid going through the review process, and that he only sent it to reviewers *after* I prodded him *after* the manuscript had been laying on his desk for months makes me doubtful of the, shall we say, correctness of the whole thing.

Now the big question is: should we challenge the decision, or should we just drop it and go with a different journal?

#publishOrPerish #academicPublishing

oh I really like bioRxiv's implementation of curvenote reader.

#biorxiv #AcademicPublishing

Is it acceptable as a journal to set a standard threshold for acceptable levels of text overlap in submissions?

#COPE very clear and brief: NO. https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/determining-acceptable-levels-plagiarismduplication

#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor

📢 Biofeed Science and Technology Journal Recruitment: Early Career Editorial Board

BST has officially launched a recruitment program for Early Career Editorial Board, inviting young scholars who are actively striving and have academic enthusiasm in related fields to join us.

📅 Deadline: 30 October 2026
📖 Learn more: https://www.icjn.net/news.php

🤝 Welcome to join us!

#Openacess #Academicpublishing #Editor #Journal #Biotechnology #Biologicalfeed #BiotechResearch #Animalproduction #Fermentation

NEW POST: 'Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim': https://copim.pub/wileys-acquisition-of-emerald-some-observations-from-copim/

The post explores issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing raised by the acquisition, heightened by the emphasis on the anticipated role of #AI.

#Scale #AcademicPublishing

New publication alert! Maria Sulimma and I just got our #Yellowjackets article published in ISLE Journal. Check it out and share to like-minded folks!

#EnvironmentalHumanities #EnergyHumanities #Gender #Electricity
#AcademicPublishing

:mastodance: :OpenAccess: :hc:

https://academic.oup.com/isle/advance-article/doi/10.1093/isle/isag039/8736155