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Scientific discrimination

I’m in the middle of preparing a talk that I’m scheduled to give in Madrid in a few days. The talk is called “Myths and realities of publishing in the Nature journals”, and its goal, at least in part, is to dispel the myth that our journals discriminate against, say, Spanish-speaking countries or developing nations, and that we favor countries like the USA and Britain.  Read more

The timeless art of persuasion

Have a look at this report from Siri Carpenter that just came out in Science‘s “Science Careers”. It’s about how to publish translational research, focusing on what journals look for in the submissions they receive. It features interviews with (and pictures of) several editors, including yours truly.  Read more

Strength in numbers

A couple of days ago we got a comment from one of our referees, saying that it’s unreasonable for us to get more than three reviewers for any given paper that we consider for publication. He stated that having to deal with the comments from more than three referees places an undue burden on authors, which may put the community off from sending us new submissions.  Read more

A Step Closer to Public Access

Each year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) gets over $28 billion dollars from taxpayers. The vast majority of that money goes to fund about 200,000 researchers who annually publish more than 60,000 articles. But most of those papers are off limits to the people who pay for the research—the public.  Read more