Because the issue is not hosting/prodiding publishing venue. The issue is that submitted original papers that are produced are garbage and neither EICs nor the

Because the issue is not hosting/prodiding publishing venue. The issue is that submitted original papers that are produced are garbage and neither EICs nor their reviewers give two cents about quality. Had not been the case this would not have happened: http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scientific-journals-0414 http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scien... Most of these companies have XML First type programs. What those who are so passionate about this topic should do is do is pay XML First fees for a sample of random 100 papers in 10 random publications and write a scraper to pull the papers in different production stages - from manuscripts to the end result. The beginning state would horrify you.