One of the world’s largest scientific publishers refused to reduce its $3,450 fee to publish in NeuroImage.
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On Monday, every editor at NeuroImage and the NeuroImage: Reports companion journal—over 40 people—resigned.
“It’s a pretty big exodus,” said Cindy Lustig, a University of Michigan at Ann Arbor psychology professor and one of the eight now former senior editors of the open-access NeuroImage. The departures also include editors in chief and handling editors.
“Getting 40-plus high-powered academics to agree on anything, much less keeping it quiet until we made the official announcement, I think is slightly miraculous on its own,” she said.
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