Pay $2,000 APC for case report worth it?

[qPCR]

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After receiving acceptance notification, I just learned that my hospital no long sponsor article processing charges (APC) for case report. Would you spend your own residency salary on the APC?

I understand that a single case report may not help much for the fellowship application. However, I have only two publication so far. This specific journal is SCI-indexed and with an IF around 1 that charges the author $2,000 upon acceptance for open access. There's obviously an option to withdraw it and submit to a less expensive or free-publishing journal, which will likely be a non-SCI and non-pubmed indexed. For case report, I doubt wherever you publish matters. I have received mixed opinions from my seniors though.

Please let me know your thoughts, thank you!

 

[Animalcules]

No

 

[gutonc]

Absolutely not.

 

[jdh71]

**** no

 

[Mad Jack]

No

 

[Dwan]

After receiving acceptance notification, I just learned that my hospital no long sponsor article processing charges (APC) for case report. Would you spend your own residency salary on the APC?

I understand that a single case report may not help much for the fellowship application. However, I have only two publication so far. This specific journal is SCI-indexed and with an IF around 1 that charges the author $2,000 upon acceptance for open access. There's obviously an option to withdraw it and submit to a less expensive or free-publishing journal, which will likely be a non-SCI and non-pubmed indexed. For case report, I doubt wherever you publish matters. I have received mixed opinions from my seniors though.

Please let me know your thoughts, thank you!

Never pay more than a cheap submission fee for journals. Those journals are trying to make profit more than promote science.

 

[chromaticscale]

After receiving acceptance notification, I just learned that my hospital no long sponsor article processing charges (APC) for case report. Would you spend your own residency salary on the APC?

I understand that a single case report may not help much for the fellowship application. However, I have only two publication so far. This specific journal is SCI-indexed and with an IF around 1 that charges the author $2,000 upon acceptance for open access. There's obviously an option to withdraw it and submit to a less expensive or free-publishing journal, which will likely be a non-SCI and non-pubmed indexed. For case report, I doubt wherever you publish matters. I have received mixed opinions from my seniors though.

Please let me know your thoughts, thank you!

Knope

I would not publish in a journal that is not PubMed-indexed. I would rather present the case as an abstract at a well-known conference than publish it as a case report if the latter costs several hundred dollars for publication. Moreover, beware of predatory journals. They look sketch and the editor or company tend to be located in a non-US location.
Here's a list for reference: Beall's List of Predatory Journals and Publishers

 

[shemer77]

God no.

 

[qPCR]

Thank you guys for your input! 😉😉😉

 

[1Cor1557]

After receiving acceptance notification, I just learned that my hospital no long sponsor article processing charges (APC) for case report. Would you spend your own residency salary on the APC?

I understand that a single case report may not help much for the fellowship application. However, I have only two publication so far. This specific journal is SCI-indexed and with an IF around 1 that charges the author $2,000 upon acceptance for open access. There's obviously an option to withdraw it and submit to a less expensive or free-publishing journal, which will likely be a non-SCI and non-pubmed indexed. For case report, I doubt wherever you publish matters. I have received mixed opinions from my seniors though.

Please let me know your thoughts, thank you!

If it is a case report. NO. wouldn't pay more than 60 bucks for a case report.
If it is first author for manuscript in JAMA or NEJM............start rattling the tin cup.