Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by AnnieL

Nils, you are right, my opening statement was quite unfair and most authors obviously take a great deal of time over their papers, as a fair reflection of the time it took them to do the science they are now communicating. Those papers are a pleasure to edit. But there are certainly a not-insignificant number of (usually very senior) scientists who apparently feel it’s someone else’s job (mine?) to get their paper into a state of legibility. And thus, it appears to me that these researchers are very much relying on the person copy-editing their paper being able to decipher the science.