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Online reputations: Best face forward

Nature volume 473, pages 138–139 (2011)Cite this article

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A Nature poll reveals how researchers guard, and sometimes burnish, their online image.

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The full results of the Nature poll are available here.

Eugenie Samuel Reich is a reporter for Nature in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Survey work was aided by Laura Harper.

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