Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resign – Walled Culture

"Academic publishers typically try to justify the often exorbitant prices charged for subscribing to their journals – or for publishing in them as open access – on the grounds that they “add value”, precisely by “paying attention to language, grammar, readability, consistency, or accuracy of proper nomenclature or formatting”. According to the editors, Elsevier no longer regards these as important enough to employ a dedicated, expert copy editor. Instead, they say: “Elsevier’s use of outsourced copyediting services yields substandard papers that are bad for science and the discipline and particularly bad for early career authors.” Similarly, academic publishers often claim that high fees are needed to support rigorous oversight by expert editors...."