dear Jeffrey,
my name is Gianluca Antonelli (http://www.eng.docente.unicas.it/gianluca_antonelli), “specialty chief editor” for Robotic Control Systems: http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/robotics-and-ai/section/robotic-control-systems
I’m interested in your claim that Frontiers is a multilevel marketing, may I ask you to further elaborate it?
Concerning the income. You are right, in theory there is an income for the Specialty Chief Editor after having handled a certain number of submissions. The income is related to the submissions and not to the accepted papers to avoid “predatory” behaviors. I do not have any idea of the amount of money, I might inquire, in my case I asked to the editorial office to eventually (we are just at he start-up) use this money for alternative purposes such as, e.g., a money prize for some young author or similar.
Finally, since my career is totally based on my scientific reputation, I feel a little bit uncomfortable in being “volunteering” servicing a supposed “predatory” journal. Could you link me to some “systematic” facts that confirm this claim?
Thanks in advance for your reply,
Gianluca