All however one member of the editorial board of the Magazine of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier identify, have resigned, pronouncing the “sustained movements of Elsevier are essentially incompatible with the ethos of the magazine and preclude keeping up the standard and integrity elementary to JHE’s good fortune.”
“Elsevier has regularly eroded the infrastructure very important to the good fortune of the magazine whilst concurrently undermining the core ideas and practices that experience effectively guided the magazine for the previous 38 years,” the magazine’s “joint Editors-in-Leader, all Emeritus Editors retired or lively within the box, and all however one Affiliate Editor” stated of their resignation remark posted to X/Twitter the previous day.
Amongst different strikes, in line with the remark, Elsevier “eradicated give a boost to for a replica editor and particular problems editor,” which they interpreted as pronouncing “editors will have to no longer be being attentive to language, grammar, clarity, consistency, or accuracy of right kind nomenclature or formatting.” The editors say the writer “often introduces mistakes all over manufacturing that weren’t provide within the authorized manuscript:”
In fall of 2023, for instance, with out consulting or informing the editors, Elsevier initiated using AI all over manufacturing, developing article proofs devoid of capitalization of all right kind nouns (e.g., officially known epochs, website names, nations, towns, genera, and so forth.) as smartly italics for genera and species. Those AI adjustments reversed the authorized variations of papers that had already been correctly formatted through the dealing with editors. This used to be extremely embarrassing for the magazine and determination took six months and used to be accomplished simplest in the course of the chronic efforts of the editors. AI processing continues for use and continuously reformats submitted manuscripts to switch that means and formatting and require in depth writer and editor oversight all over evidence degree.
The resigning editors additionally stated Elsevier “unilaterally took complete keep watch over over” the editorial board’s “medical construction and composition” through requiring all editors signal a brand new contract yearly,” resulting in a decline within the selection of affiliate editors. The writer additionally “indicated it could not give a boost to the dual-editor [in chief] type that has been a trademark of JHE since 1986,” in line with the remark. “When the editors vehemently adverse this motion, Elsevier stated it could give a boost to a dual-editor type through slicing the repayment price through part.”
Editors additionally raised considerations about article processing fees on the magazine of $3,990 that “stay out of succeed in for a lot of our authorship” and are up to two times the ones “of discipline-comparable Elsevier-published journals.”
Makes an attempt to hunt remark from Elsevier and to be told the title of the affiliate editor who didn’t renounce from the just lately resigned editors in leader had been met with vacation out-of-office replies. We can replace this put up with anything else we be informed.
The mass resignation is the twentieth such episode since early 2023, in line with our data. Previous this yr, Nature requested, “what do those team exits succeed in?”
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