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Nature 439, 534 (2 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439534d; Published online 1 February 2006

Reader-appeal should not outweigh merit of research

Emilio Artacho1

  1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK

There is one aspect of Nature's acceptance criteria that your Editorial on peer review ("Three cheers for peers" Nature 439, 118; 2006) does not consider.The broad audience of Nature forces its editors to pre-screen papers according to how appealing they will be for its readers, even if appeal and importance do not always go hand in hand.

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