The marginalizing effect of journal submission fees in Accounting and Finance

Erin Oldford (), John Fiset and Anahit Armenakyan
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Erin Oldford: Memorial University of Newfoundland
John Fiset: Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University
Anahit Armenakyan: Nipissing University

Scientometrics, 2023, vol. 128, issue 8, No 18, 4650 pages

Abstract: Abstract Many Accounting and Finance journals impose monetary charges on authors at the time of manuscript submission. Journals and editorial boards claim that these charges, otherwise known as submission fees, have a range of positive effects. We use the Principal of Double Effect, a long-standing ethical decision-making framework, to investigate the extent to which submission fees also have a secondary, unintended effect of marginalizing non-elite academics, particularly those with limited funding resources, from publishing in a high-status segment of this journal market. We show that submission fees are common among prestigious Accounting and Finance journals and act to segregate the publishing landscape with academics from institutions and countries with limited financial resources migrating to comparable-quality journals with lower or no submission fees, thereby reducing their opportunity set.

Keywords: Journal submission fees; Principle of double effect; Academic elite (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-023-04758-7

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