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Editorial

Nature Neuroscience 12, 1 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/nn0109-1

Striving for excellence in peer review

This past November, an ongoing ferocious argument about the merits of a paper by Chen et al. published earlier in Cell surfaced in the popular science press, first in the British Times Higher Education (THE) and then in a blog hosted by The Scientist (http://www.the-scientist.