Thanks for all your input!
The problem is that our community is so small, that no respectable publisher will invest into a peer-reviewed journal that has no chance of a decent profit.
I recently published a paper on the origin of islamic saber in a Ukrainian journal published by a crazy guy who opened his private collection to the public and managed to corral a bunch of the top-class academicians to the Editorial Board of a journal he funded by himself:-)
He died suddenly and his friends rapidly put together a memorial issue in his honor, myself included. To have a paper in the same issue with Gorelik and Khudyakov is not something that happens every day:-)
But such astonishing people are few and far between.
Real academic weapon researchers publish books, not articles: that's where the money is.
So I am stuck...
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