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I hope I've come to the right place! I have a few fairly basic questions about submitting articles to academic journals:
1. Does one absolutely have to be a university researcher in order to have any chance of having an article accepted in an academic journal?
2. Is it true that many (most?) academic journals charge a very hefty fee (usually paid by the university) for publishing a given author's article?
3. What are the possibilities for an academic to have articles published in the journals of different fields than his own? Say, if he is an English professor, but want to expand some of his ideas into the fields of history or psychology. Can his articles be accepted by other journals as easily as by those of his own fields, or will it be much harder to be published in the journals of other fields?
Hope you can help. I am trying to ask anyone I can think of about these things, to get a good impression of what the conditions are.
Thanks,
- Tue
Answer 1. No. For example, Einstein as a Swiss patent clerk when he submitted his articles.
2. I am not aware of charges by true, peer-reviewed academic journals. But each journal will have its own rules for submission. Follow them.
3. Again, each journal will have rules of its own. Legitimate academic journals are peer-reviewed, and articles will be judged on their merits and on whether the journal in question generally publishes articles that address the issues raised in the article submitted.
