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Researchers dont get any money for writing papers in those journals, Infact, researchers have to pay to get their paper published in most of these journals.

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Pay out of their research budget with your tax dollars

Not all researchers have thousands of dollars available in grants to cover the types of publishing fees that have become common as the burden of payment shifts from readers to researchers. Graduate students, postdocs or even professors may end up having to pay out of their own pocket to get a publication in a high-profile journal that is necessary to advance their career.

Or not. Or advance the money for a year and, maybe baby, recover the funds one year later... you would be surprised.

> Infact, researchers have to pay to get their paper published in most of these journals.

Is this true? Most Elsevier journals in mathematics (my field) do not have publication fees. In fact, I think of publication fees as one of the hallmarks of an open-access model.

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