Blueoaky

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Elsevier? The company that makes money from public funded research? The one that does basically nothing and earns tons of money on the back of tax payers and free labor of authors, reviewers and editors.

Hopefully open access policies will bring an end to the exploitative business model of science "publisher".

on Becoming et al. · c/science_memes · 4 pts · 1y

Same for ACM. I think it's good as it's easier to read. But sometimes I still write names (e.g. as Mueller et al. points out, the color blue is actually red [666]), to highlight something. But that's maybe for 5 out of 100 sources.

Frontiers has many different journals. The quality of the journal highly depends on the editor of the journal. But there has been reports that Frontiers has been involved in predatory actions. They used rejected papers and re-submitted them to other journals (as they have a lot of journals and some paper topics can fit in several journals). This is seen as predatory behavior. Overall I would argue that Frontiers is borderline, it would not be my first choice. Keep in mind, as an Open access journal they get paid my the author's. Each article costs around 2.000$, so they need to publish papers in order to survive as a business.