I have to say that I am very surprised by the incorrect claim about our editorial and peer-review process given that every single paper we publish has the name of the editorial board member who handled the paper and recommended its acceptance published on that paper. We also provide full statistics about our acceptance and rejection rates of every single journal that we publish at http://www.hindawi.com/statistics/. Our average acceptance rate is between 35 and 40%.
I am also surprised to see that what concerns Mr Beall is the percentage of our profit margin rather than the actual cost of our publishing program to the academic community. In 2012, we have published more than 22,000 articles with total revenue of about $13m. This is about $600 per published article. Given that the industry-wide average revenue per article is estimated to be around $4000, the academic community would have paid $88m to get these articles published under the toll access model. This is a $75m less to the academic community while ensuring that these articles are full open access.
