RE: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

["Sally Morris" <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>]

My guess would be that both the average circulation and the 
average suscription for a scholarly journal might be considerably 
lower than that

Sally Morris
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU
Email:  sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Person
Sent: 27 January 2011 23:59
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Subject: Re: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

I have no opinion on this but out of curiosity I unscientifically 
counted 315 articles in the latest issue of PLoS One.

At $1350 article processing charge per article, maybe $425,250 
was taken in on this issue.

Again, an unscientific method...if all 12 issues per year have 
315 articles, that would be over five million dollars in article 
processing charges,

I don't know what to think of this, but I think the general 
figures are pretty interesting.

To follow up on the above, I did the arithmetic hypothetically: 
if a commercial journal has 1000 subscribers and charges $5000 
per year per subscription, that also comes to about $5,000,000. 
Kind of shows what an open access publisher can be up against.

Matthew Person
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nawin" <nawin@nawingupta.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:17:11 PM
Subject: RE: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

Many of the top STM journals accept only a small number of the 
articles submitted, with acceptance rates often at less than 10%. 
What is the acceptance rate for PLoS One?

Nawin Gupta
INFORMED PUBLISHING SOLUTIONS, INC.
ngupta@IPSIG.com