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Nature 400, 398 (29 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/22628

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Funding agencies must use their muscle

See associated Correspondence: Sternheimer, Nature 402, 576 (December 1999)

Benjamin White1

  1. Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA

Your decision to let authors cite their contributions to papers is a welcome change in policy (Nature 399, 393; 1999). Statements clearly allocating credit and responsibility for the research done can only help to promote the health of science.