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Editorial
Nature 421, 769 (20 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421769a
How to publish in Nature
Abstract
Hopeful authors of research papers will help themselves by reading our new Guide to Authors before submission. This also highlights the need and opportunity to communicate more effectively with important non-specialist audiences.
Editors at Nature frequently receive passionate pleas from aspiring authors that publication of their paper is crucial for a grant, a position or for some other prospect. The scientific profession to which these authors belong is locked into a reward system based excessively on quantitative assessments, such as the number of papers published in journals that have a particular impact factor.
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