Journal
-- 2013 price – 2013 articles – 2013 pages – 5year Impact Factor
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Organic Letters -- $3728 –
1584 – 6,772 -- 5.6
Tet. Letters -- $16,773
-- 1,709 -- 7,206 –
2.4
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Journal
- 2013 Price/Article – 2013 Price/Page – 2013 Price/Article/IF
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Organic Letters --
$2.35 -- $0.55
-- $0.42
Tet. Letters --
$9.81 -- $2.33 --
$4.09
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On the basis of the
price/article … a reasonable subscription price (based on ACS pricing) for
Elsevier’s Tetrahedron Letters should be ~$4,016
Assuming that Elsevier’s
publication process is as efficient as that of the ACS … Elsevier is garnering
an excess profit of over 317% on this title.
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