In any given research speciatly "who" is not an individual but the community.
Just ask a bunch of physicists (random selection of 50 say) and ask them the
difference between, say, Physical Review and Il Nuovo Cimento or even Physics
Letters and Physical Review Letters (all publish essentially i
Helllo
Journals do evolve: they already did by going on-line and -- for many --
paperless. Many are continuous already trough "online first, etc. Most of the
elements on your list can be incorporated in the future without problems. I
will not go through it one by one for it would be tedious, b