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No, your premise is mistaken. The most prestigious journals (Nature and Science) are professionally edited. Editors may have PhDs in the field they edit, but a
by azeotropic 8y ago
No, your premise is mistaken.
The most prestigious journals (Nature and Science) are professionally edited. Editors may have PhDs in the field they edit, but are not professors.
- Al-Khwarizmi 8y agoScience and Nature are outliers. The overwhelming majority of scientific papers are in specific journals (as opposed to these generalistic journals) and editors are almost always professors. By the way, the Science editorial board can be seen here, under "Board of Reviewing Editors". They are professors as well: https://www.sciencemag.org/about/editors-and-editorial-boards https://www.sciencemag.org/about/editors-and-editorial-board...
- sokoloff 8y agoNeuron’s editors are professional editors as well. As far as I know, that’s the norm for Elsevier journals. (My wife was one for Neuron and many of her work friends were professional editors for her or other journals.)
- azeotropic 8y agoReviewing editors are not editors -- they're more like reviewers on retainer. Reviewing editors exist specifically because the professional editors at Science will often be handling manuscripts they are not qualified to understand. The parent comment was about $prestigious_journal, not the central example of a scientific journal (which I agree is an academically edited specialist journal). In my experience, al least the top 3-4 tiers of Springer/Nature journals are professionally edited. I doubt Elsevier is any different. It only gets worse as the publishers continue to generate new branded specialist journals and mega-journals trading on the prestige of the flagship publication.
- somebadguy 8y agoPlease don’t comment when you know so little about the subject.