Academic journals don’t pay writers, excluding scholars who can’t afford to work for free from getting published. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Difficult issues of the economics of research and academic life. Are Western academics underpaid for their research and publications? For those studying issues of modernity and modernization, as well as sociology of science and economic sociology.
https://www.businessinsider.com/problem-academic-journals-not-paying-writers-scholars-2021-5