Letter: The Rising Shift to Open Access Journals in Neurosurgery With Exuberant Fees: Challenges and Limitations

"Recently, 3 well-known neurosurgical journals—World Neurosurgery (Elsevier), Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (Elsevier), and Acta Neurochirurgica (Springer)—have transitioned to open-access publishing models that require authors to pay article processing charges (APCs).^2-4 Although open access aims to make scientific research more widely available,^5-7 this shift raises important concerns about the financial burden it places on authors. The escalating APCs create significant barriers for many researchers, calling into question the sustainability and equity of this approach in neurosurgical publishing...."