{"id":2893,"date":"2009-07-20T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2009-07-20T18:45:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:45:17","slug":"publishing-a-humanities-article-costs-three-times-as-much-as-a-science-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/publishing-a-humanities-article-costs-three-times-as-much-as-a-science-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing a humanities article costs three times as much as a science article"},"content":{"rendered":"

This seems to be an important bit of research. The U.S. Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> reports on new NHA research<\/a> which finds that…<\/p>\n

“It costs more than three times as much to publish an article in a humanities or social-science journal as it does to publish one in a science, technical, or medical, or STM, journal [ reports<\/em> ] an in-depth study of eight flagship journals in the humanities and social sciences.” […] “It cost an average of $9,994 in 2007 to publish an article in one of the eight journals analyzed” […] first-copy costs — “collecting, reviewing, editing, and developing content” — added up to about 47 per cent of the total outlay among the eight journals studied<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The National Humanities Alliance<\/a> report The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations<\/em> (not yet online) was written during 2007-2009, and examined U.S. data from 2005 to 2007. The Chronicle<\/em> journalist highlights three possible reasons for the difference…<\/p>\n

   *<\/strong> articles are significantly longer than in the sciences<\/p>\n

   *<\/strong> acceptance rates are far lower than in the sciences, at a pitiful 11%<\/p>\n

   *<\/strong> such journals include a wider variety of content than in the sciences…<\/p>\n

“peer-reviewed research made up about 62 percent of what the eight journals published in 2007. The remaining 38 percent consisted of “other scholarly content,” including book reviews.” […] Such material does not come cheap, though; it must still be commissioned, edited, and put into production. It cost an [annual<\/em>] average of $313,612 per journal in 2007, the study found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the “articles are longer” argument, I’m not sure that a simple word-count is a valid measure. Science articles are full of complex tables, formulae, diagrams, and it must take quite some time for a reviewer to mull these over. Similarly, I’m thinking that the acceptance rate may be so low because only the “top eight” most prestigious journals were surveyed — lesser journals may well have a far higher acceptance rate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This seems to be an important bit of research. The U.S. Chronicle of Higher Education reports on new NHA research …<\/p>\n

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