r/academicpublishing

Working on a side project that pulls the newest published work across arXiv, PubMed, and bioRxiv, ranks what is most relevant to your field, and delivers concise weekly briefings to your inbox.

Was working on an AI model to do the summary and ranking, but AI sentiment seems really low among researchers right now.

Is free trial -> $9 a month fair?

Any advice would help!

Hi everyone,

I'm a Master's student from Indonesia, and I'm about to submit my first paper to Administrative Sciences (MDPI). The APC is 1,600 CHF, which is way beyond my budget as a self-funded student.

I've already emailed the editorial office to request a waiver. Does anyone here have experience obtaining discounts or waivers from MDPI, particularly as a researcher from a lower-middle-income country?

If you have unused MDPI reviewer vouchers you don't plan to use, I'd really appreciate it if you could share them. Feel free to DM me.

Thanks in advance!

I was wondering what people's experience are with article publication charges (APCs) with correspondence to the editor.

I am a clinician researcher, and the university I am affiliated with has a read and access agreement with all major publishers. I have published original research in open access journals using this without problems.

Recently an editorial was published in a Springer journal which I disagreed with, and so I wrote a letter to the editor challenging some of the assertions. The journal itself is fully open access. The letter has been accepted for publication. However I have now been told that read and access agreements do not cover correspondence, and so they would like me to pay the full APC for publication of the letter, which is £2590.

I do not have any grants that would cover this, so it would need to come out of my own pocket. Does anyone else have any experience with this sort of thing? Charging a full APC for three non peer-reviewed paragraphs, challenging a position put forward by the same journal, seems a bit steep and potentially limits the ability of people to validly critique the output of said journal. I can understand the APC in relation to other manuscript types, but I would have thought a letter to the editor probably doesn’t put a huge financial burden on the publisher.

I suppose my options could be to either write back and request a waiver, or submit elsewhere, but it does seem a little backwards. I would be interested to hear if others have also encountered this and found ways to address it.

Can anyone suggest how to validate/ verify the refference and citations given by claude for my research paper and how to humanize claude content effective.

Hi, everyone!

This is my first time writing a post here. And I am only writing because colleagues of mine are not familiar with the issue I am going through. My paper was submitted in the beginning of 2024. During that same year, it went through a major revision. During 2025, it went through minor revisions with reviewers acknowledging the improvements made previously. From 2025 until now, the editor hasn't found any reviewers. I don't know if they didn't try hard enough or if the subject or combination of methods is just too specific or whatever. Regardless, after some time, the Elsevier tracking system now says the review process is complete and that a decision is in process. Can anyone help me somehow gauge my expectations, since I am feeling anxious now? What is the most probable outcome? Rejection? Minor review again? Has someone here dealt with that in the past?