I found the article in Scholarly Open Access at https://scholarlyoa.com/?s=Annals+of+Rehabilitation+Medicine.
In this article, Annals of rehabilitation medicine (ARM) was treated as a predatory journal. I contacted editor, Dr. Jung. She told me that it was a wrong announcement in the homepage. After I informed her, the content was fixed as below immediately:
[Minimum page charges and additional fees for reprints will be due for every manuscript. Costs for printing color illustrations are charged to the authors regardless of a member or a non-member. All published manuscripts become the permanent property of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine and may not be published elsewhere without written permission.
Page charges – The Society depends on the payment of page charges to offset the cost of publication. Payment of 10,000 Korean won/page is required.
Open access – Charges to make articles open access are free.
Color charges – Color figures in print cost 15,000 Korean won and black and white figures in print cost 10,000 Korean won each. Color print charges are 150,000 Korean won per every 16th printed page. Authors may opt to have figures printed in black and white but produced in color online. If the author elects to have online color figures, the author will be additionally charged 5,000 Korean won per figure.
Manuscript editing charges – Manuscript editing charge is 150,000 Korean won per article.
Additional charges – Authors can be charged for paper offprints and delivery if necessary.]
ARM is not unprofessional and exploitative publication journal that Indian author mentioned. It is the official journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine. It is also indexed in PMC/PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1767/), and SCOPUS, KoreaMed, KoreaMed Synapse. It launched from 1977. I have consulted editors of ARM since 2010. Editors are all volunteers for official journals of the society. They did not receive any honorarium. APC was only used for the editing and publishing. Cost is reasonable: about 100 US dollars per page. Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine is the executive board society of the Korean Academy of Medical Science, the official organization of all medical societies in Korea. It is also member journal of the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (http://kamje.kr). Dr. Bang, editor and Dr. Jung, associate editor are top-notch physicians and researchers in Korea. They are all faculties of Seoul National University College of Medicine, leading medical school in Korea.
I heard that Indian author did not pay the APC: therefore, the article was not published. If it is real unprofessional and exploitative publication journal, why so many authors in Korea and abroad publish their articles form ARM? This society never want to earn money. Most of publishing cost were also provided by the society. APC US 100 per page is not enough cost for publishing one article as you know. No editors in Korea receive the honorarium during their editor job. No medical journals from Korea are published by commercial companies. Therefore there is no predatory medical journal in Korea. Of course, there is no predatory scholarly journal in all fields in Korea. All journals are evaluated by National Research Foundation for their quality and timeliness. All medical journals from Korea have been published by scholarly societies or no-profit organization and most of them were supported by the Government. ARM was also supported by Korean Government through the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies.
My carelessness caused this affair. I asked editors to add submenu on APC in the journal web site. At time, I gave the routine announcement format that was used by many medical journals in Korea. For example,
[There is no author’s submission fee or other publication related fee since every cost for the publication process is supported by the publisher; therefore it is the so-called platinum open access journal]
It is my mistake not to confirm the APC of ARM exactly. Many medical journals do not receive any APC. For example, http://jeehp.org, http://e-epih.org, http://kjme.kr, and http://e-eht.org/. Above announcement was dispatched to company that worked for journal homepage and uploaded without the confirmation by editor.
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