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Published online 3 December 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041129-14

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A higher standard of literacy in scientific papers would make them more enjoyable, more publishable and more highly cited, argues Henry Gee.

The job of a Nature editor is both enviable and happy. We sit at our desks, receiving, without the fuss of having to get up and go there, news of discoveries from around the world.

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