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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Submission Fees and Response Times in Academic Publishing

  • Christopher Cotton
American Economic Review
vol. 103, no. 1, February 2013
(pp. 501–09)
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Abstract

Both submission fees and response times enable editors to maintain an acceptable refereeing burden by discouraging the submission of articles with low probability of acceptance. When authors differ in their ability or willingness to pay submission fees and deal with delays, journal quality is maximized under a combination of moderate fees and moderate delays.

Citation

Cotton, Christopher. 2013. "Submission Fees and Response Times in Academic Publishing." American Economic Review, 103 (1): 501–09. DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.1.501

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