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Nature 387, 648 (12 June 1997) |

Open Innovation Challenges

Demise of the monograph

Michael S. Y. Lee1

  1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
    e-mail: Email: msylee@bio.usyd.edu.au

It seems that everyone laments the publish-or-perish syndrome afflicting the modern scientific community1. An unfortunate consequence of the increasing emphasis placed by funding bodies on numbers of research papers rather than overall quality of research has been the demise of the monograph.