September 23, 2025Open Access

The Price of Knowledge: How Subscription Journals Exploit Authors and Academia?

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The study reveals significant systemic inequities in scholarly communication due to article processing charges.
Findings indicate that financial barriers disproportionately affect researchers from underfunded institutions and low-income countries.
Conceptual and thematic analysis of literature from 2015 to 2025 highlights how commercial publishers exploit authors.
The research identifies potential alternatives to traditional models, including Diamond Open Access and policy reforms.

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This analysis highlights the structural inequities from article processing charges in open access publishing, indicating exploitation of authors and academia.

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Shrestha et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4739d31b076d99fa6bd03 https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202509.1691.v1

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This analysis highlights the structural inequities from article processing charges in open access publishing, indicating exploitation of authors and academia.

The Price of Knowledge: How Subscription Journals Exploit Authors and Academia?

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The Price of Knowledge: How Subscription Journals Exploit Authors and Academia?

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