> You are seriously giving authors too much credit. Sure, how can we credit someone who did the research and prepared the paper in its publish-ready form :) >

> You are seriously giving authors too much credit. Sure, how can we credit someone who did the research and prepared the paper in its publish-ready form :) > The vast majority of the journal papers require enormous amount of production editing Absolutely! Such as introducing new errors by people with no subject understanding. :) > that's exactly why the EICs and societies sold those journals to publishers. They are sold to them for the very simple reason: $$$ they get from it :) > Graphs do not fit the page ... If any of these are not acceptable, the journal is perfectly correct to request changes from the author. Which I as author would prefer over introducing damages by people with no idea what my papers are about.