Journal collected $400,000 from papers it later retracted – Retraction Watch

"A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculations....

Commenters on the April article pointed out the journal charges a fee for all accepted papers; separate fees apply for open access. We followed up on that with a few questions for Sage....

We asked whether Sage has considered donating the revenue from retracted papers to charity, as IOP Publishing has done. Its donations go to Research4Life, which provides low- and middle-income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content. [The Sage representative] didn’t address donations specifically."