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Correspondence
Nature 424, 14 (3 July 2003) | doi:10.1038/424014a
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Stalked by accountants, unaware of pre-Internet work, how can young scientists thrive?
I have added Peter A. Lawrence's Commentary on "The politics of publication" (Nature 422, 259–261; 2003) and David Colquhoun's incisive Correspondence response "Challenging the tyranny of impact factors" (Nature 423, 479; 2003) to a very small collection of items on this subject which are de rigueur reading for everyone in my group, no matter how senior or copiously cited.
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