Putting a value on editing
Comment may be free but decent editing isn’t, as a writer to The Economist last week reminded us.
Chris Perry, of Instow, Devon, responding to a leading article about making academic publications free to all, wrote:
“The management of the review process is no doubt imperfect—poor papers get published, good papers get rejected—but the frequency with which that happens is greatly reduced by the paid input of scientific editors. The outcome is that readers do not have to sift through mountains of unintelligible “opinion” to find genuine science. The same process explains why the quality of the letters you publish is so much higher than the virtually unmediated contributions to your website.
“I am happy to submit this letter to that process and will accept the outcome. I assume your letters editor is paid, and that in turn is one of the reasons subscribers pay to read your newspaper.”
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