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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by jVinc on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:06PM (#17656604)
Yes "editors", those are people who will write you back "article does not conform with spec"(honestly though I think that's just a bot using their emails) until you fix the formatting yourself. And will send you the joined replies from the per reviewers.

They are not editors in any real sense of the word.

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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by yiyus on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @07:46PM (#17658350)
I do not think they are bots. A bot would not ask you to submit an appendix as a separate file in the first submission and merge it after the first review, for example.

Most of the work they do is, indeed, forwarding emails (not even reading reviews and authors responses). However, from time to time, they have to solve difficult issues (corrections, conflicts, plagiarism) and for that you need a person.

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