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Publishing on the recommendations of the head of the authors’ lab

Campbell writing at Edge about Maddox

Despite his original establishment of the peer-review process at Nature, Maddox always had strong reservations about its conservatism. These were perhaps best reflected in his view that the Watson and Crick paper on the structure of DNA wouldn’t pass muster under the current system. That paper was published as a result of recommendations by Lawrence Bragg Continue reading Publishing on the recommendations of the head of the authors’ lab

Show off – the most important bias in research

A new editorial in PLoS medicine suggests five ways how trust in publications can be reestablished:

First, editors themselves should recognize and declare their own competing interests. Continue reading Show off – the most important bias in research