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Yes, free for Green OA. Although most of our Gold Open Access articles are published through institutional Read & Publish agreements at no cost to authors. We’re also complaint with funder mandates for OA repository deposition. We discuss more about our finances here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

For many of us who work in scientific publishing, the title of this Editorial is a question we hear all the time when we're out talking to academics. And it's a perfectly reasonable one. After all, re...

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‘Why is publishing so expensive?’

Please do chat to Dominique and Saanjbati about submitting to Development and our upcoming Special Issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

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⭐️ A stony coral, Montipora capitata, primary polyps, one month of age. Autofluorescence of symbiotic algae (magenta) and GFP (green). 🔬 📸 Credit: Emma Rangel-Huerta from Stowers Institute for Medical Research #FluorescenceFriday #devbio #cnidarians 🪸

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Thanks for this - I need some time to educate myself more about this before I’m able comment further but it’s an important point for us journals to consider so thanks for highlighting it.

Thanks for these points! It's true that Clarivate have culled many journals from their index in recent years, but I'm unsure of the extent to which these removed titles would be inflating the citations of devbio journals; it's something I hadn't considered before - I will look into it.

I do think that authors are choosing to submit to megajournals over field-specific journals and preferentially referencing articles from those publishers. Of course, it's probably a complex combination of behaviours and patterns that a single number will fail to convey.

Meanwhile, it is free to publish in Development…

Oh yes undoubtedly - but I think choosing to take that path rather than withdraw from that publisher and submit elsewhere is still an author choice whether it be for convenience, fatigue or any other reason.

This is the perception we're trying to address - why is a Development paper not considered "enough"? I suspect it's because hiring committees rely on the impact factor as a measure of quality. We're also collecting examples of labs that were established with a Dev paper - they exist!