How to get profit from scientific article? Where to publish it to get money from?

Question

I know there is a lot of journals. But if I will publish my article, they just want to get my copyright for free. How do I get profit from my article?

Answer 1

The thing is ur article has to be evaluated for its content, if u have written facts and nothing else its useless. and if u have done research  its definitely worth it.

mostly ask companies if they are interested in your research paper. of u can do is, publish  it freely and copyright the idea.

But remember knowledge should be free and should be available to everyone!

Answer 2

I really don't know if you can publish for money- not in a peer-reviewed journal. Technically, you should be paid for your research by the company/institution/grant you are working for, so it's a little unethical to get paid extra for doing your job and making a scientific contribution unless it's in a text book or something.

You could try to become a contributor in a trade magazine, most times those positions are paid. The only draw back is that those aren't peer reviewed and they usually aren't used as citations in other research.

Answer 3

Hahaha.  Actually, many journals charge YOU to publish your paper.  You'll certainly never make any money off of it.  My last paper cost my university over $2,500 to publish.  Some journals publish for free, and that's the best offer you'll get.  It costs a lot for them to print up the journals, pay editors and typesetters, and send them out, and it's a limited audience to begin with.

If your idea is something you can patent and then sell from there, do that.  But if it's just an idea, all you'll get is the credit for it.  That's enough for most of us.  It has to be.

Answer 4

Scientists who write scientific articles do so to formalize their findings (peer reviewed journals); it is assumed that the research was already financed (by a research institute, the government, a university, a corporation) and no profit is expected from the publication. Peer reviewed publications essentially never pay contributors, circulation is too low anyway and subscription fees barely pays for the printing.

People who get paid for writing scientific articles are scientific journalists, and they write in mags like Discover, Popular Science and so on. Their job is to seek out the scientists and interview them, summarise different point of views, and not to describe in complete details the science behind some findings.

If you'd like to get an article published in such mags, you'd have to show that your article would be interesting enough for their average reader, and demonstrate better than average writing skills.

Answer 5

You misunderstand the point of scientific journals (at least the real ones, not the popular ones).

The point is to give you a forum to share your views with the community (so you can earn fame and respect and tenure and all that).

I've heard talk recently that journals might start charging the authors (which means charging the authors' funding sources--the universities and grants)  to publish rather than charging readers to access the articles (which means charging universities to subscribe).  Either way, nobody is really making anything off of it.

Now pop magazines that sell advertising (Scientific American, etc) are another story.  They will pay you for an article.  But you aren't going to get rich off of it.