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The “editors” of an academic journal are usually academics, professors who are employed by universities, and they don’t sit at the offices of Elsevier or anothe
by guan 12y ago
The “editors” of an academic journal are usually academics, professors who are employed by universities, and they don’t sit at the offices of Elsevier or another publisher. They assign referees and make final decisions on whether to publish an article. They are sometimes paid, but not always, and usually do their work as a service to the profession.
The publisher does copy-editing, typesetting, distribution, and other tasks. They sometimes pay for administrative support for the editors, but that is often paid by the editors’ own universities.
- ufo 12y agoAnd in some fields (like computer science) they don't even do the typesetting - the authors themselves do that with Latex.
- guan 12y agoFor journals in the fields that I’m familiar, what often ends up happening is the authors do all the typesetting perfectly with LaTeX. Then they submit a PDF, along with a Word file with all the text. Some contractor of the publisher does the typesetting all over again, using LaTeX!