https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1660?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article

From Dorothy Bishop's blog at https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/09/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont-strange.html

Frontiers Media formal special issue policy. Frontiers arbitrarily hides the fact that an article was published under the context of an open call for special issue articles if that special issue ultimately has less than four articles. As if the COI of the handling and guest editors, and financial motives to retain the guest editor, don't matter.

Elsevier formal special issue policy. Elsevier arbitrarily hides the fact that an article was published under the context of an open call for special issue articles if that special issue ultimately has less than three articles. As if the COI of the handling and guest editors, and financial motives to retain the guest editor, don't matter.