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Nature 431, 897 (21 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/431897a; Published online 20 October 2004
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The real dirty secret of academic publishing
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You can get almost anything into print if you go far enough down the ranks of journals.
I cannot in all honesty share in the anxiety surrounding publication of a dubious paper on 'intelligent design' — regarded by most scientists as a version of creationism — in a journal with an impact factor of less than one. Your News story "Peer-reviewed paper defends theory of intelligent design" (Nature 431, 114; 200410.1038/431114a
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