Editors of neurology imaging journal resign to start new publication in protest at author fees

All 42 editors at the Elsevier journal NeuroImage and its companion journal NeuroImage: Reports have resigned from their posts to collaborate on a new non-profit open access journal called Imaging Neuroscience, aiming “to replace NeuroImage as the top journal in our field,” they said in a joint statement.1The editors decided to stop working with Elsevier after the publisher refused their request to reduce article processing charges for authors publishing open access articles in NeuroImage and NeuroImage: Reports. These were set at $3450, roughly average for a medical journal of NeuroImage’s circulation and impact factor. But the departed editors estimate the actual cost of publication at $1000 or less, with the rest going as profit to the publisher.The new journal, to be published by MIT Press, will charge authors less than $2000 and maybe substantially less, editor in chief Stephen Smith, a professor at Oxford University, told The BMJ in an…
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