"Volunteer scientists do not do the curation. They do editing and peer review, but they don't do the editorial work of deciding what articles are published, how

"Volunteer scientists do not do the curation. They do editing and peer review, but they don't do the editorial work of deciding what articles are published, how they are presented, what's featured, etc." What exactly do you mean by curation? Editing and peer review IS what determines what is published in the journal. If the paper passes those, it gets in-- Elsevier and Springer do not make a habit of telling editors-in-chief, "sorry, this paper you accepted doesn't cut the mustard". As for what is "featured", the order in which papers appear, etc., this is negligible even if the publishers do decide it (probably not), since journals are not like newspapers, not intended for cover-to-cover reading.