> All reviewers, Action Editors and Editors-in-Chief for TMLR are unpaid volunteers.
He is not an unpaid volunteer.
He's an associate professor at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University. He is not paid by the journal, but he is paid a salary by the university, and the university expects that a small part of his academic work is to serve as an editor in academic journals.
Elsevier, springer and mdpi have literally billions dollars in profit thanks to this free labor. Why would university pay for performing labor for for-profit companies? The system is broken and we should name things as they are - it’s free labor.
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He is not an unpaid volunteer.
He's an associate professor at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University. He is not paid by the journal, but he is paid a salary by the university, and the university expects that a small part of his academic work is to serve as an editor in academic journals.
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