In 2023 the whole editorial board of NeuroImage quit over fees and started a rival journal. Elsevier kept NeuroImage running with an interim board. The reputation was harder to keep.

An AI system wrote a paper that cleared reviewers at an ICLR workshop. It is a real milestone, and an honest stress test of peer review itself.

In 2022, eLife announced it would stop saying yes or no to papers after review. Public reviews and a short verdict on the evidence now travel with the paper instead.