Journal submission fees are coming to organization and management research. California Management Review has just announced that it introduces submission fees of $75 to $150 per article submitted. Paying this fee is the precondition for even being considered for peer review, yet your article might still get desk rejected. The reason stated for this move is of course even higher submission numbers due to AI.
While submission fees are common in neighbouring disciplines such Economics, I still think they are a very bad idea: scholars from well-funded institutions (mostly situated in the Global North) won’t be affected but other scholars will be. It deepens the already enormous gulf in academic opportunity between well-funded and less well-funded research institutions, which is amplified by the self-reinforcing feedback loop of publication output and third-party funding input.
While submission fees might seem like a necessary fix to ever-increasing submission numbers outpacing reviewing capacities, there are alternative measures that could be taken:
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