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You're certainly right about authors and peer-reviewers, but are you sure that editors don't get paid with some of that money?
by PopePompus 2y ago
You're certainly right about authors and peer-reviewers, but are you sure that editors don't get paid with some of that money?
- dsr_ 2y agoYes. The "editors" for most such publications do not edit, they make publishing decisions. Copy-editors are expensive, and paid for by the researchers, not the journals.
- PopePompus 2y agoI have published papers in scientific journals. I had to pay page charges to the journal (well, my employer did), but I never directly paid any editor or copy-editor.
- dsr_ 2y agoDid any copy-editing happen? Frequently it does not. Which is another issue... copy-editing on scientific papers requires major cooperation between the authors and the editor.
- PopePompus 2y agoYes, there was copy-editing. After peer-review and acceptance of the paper, the journal would send me marked up versions of the paper ("proofs") that made the paper conform to the journal's style, fixed typos, etc. There were often a couple of iterations concerning these changes. Finally a set of proofs would be accepted, and the paper would be published. Somebody was doing the work of making those proofs, and it wasn't the peer-reviewers. I'm pretty sure that the journals paid people to do that work, and since I was being charged hefty page fees (about $200/page) I suspect some of that money, and perhaps some subscription money, was paying for that work.
- kashunstva 2y ago> The "editors" for most such publications do not edit, they make publishing decisions. My spouse is an editor at an academic journal in her field and does some of both. In papers selected for publication, she does exert editorial input. In terms of remuneration, it is a compensated position; but how the money flows between the academic society, the journal and Elsevier, that part is lost on me.