It&#x27;s been a while since I&#x27;ve put anything in an Elsevier journal, but iirc they still do the review. They just organize it though, basically the way it works is that they have a pool of reviewers who are known field experts that they choose from. Reviewers are not paid though, so ithat doesn&#x27;t cost them much.<p>It used to be that they put a lot more effort into editing and typesetting for print, but they don&#x27;t do nearly as much nowadays. You just send them your TeX file and if something is wrong they tell you to fix it.