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Published online 17 March 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/458264b
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Society sues journal over right to reply
Row between Max Planck Society and Wiley escalates.
The Max Planck Society (MPS) in Germany has begun legal proceedings against publishers Wiley International in a dispute over an editorial in the February issue of Human Brain Mapping.
The society alleges that the editorial grievously misrepresents it and harms the reputation of one of its scientists.
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This is an interesting debate and needs wide dissemination. All relevant papers by Nature, Human Brain Mapping, NeuroImage or any other journal should be available in public domain and there should be no delay in publication once editors accept the same. I am an Economist working on development-related issues and would like to follow this.
I am a Chinese scientist and wish to express my observation on this news. I would say that it is quite common for journals to ignore opinions that are different from the perspective of the journals and it is uncommon that scientists would even bother to deal with this prejudice in scientific publishing. However, bias in scientific communication is not good for science at all. So I wish that all journals should be more open-minded so that scientists do not need to go to court to get their opinions being heard, as shown in this case and some other cases (http://im1.biz/Truth.htm or http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_502041670100ceuc.html ) that I know. Let us build a more constructive than a destructive way of scientific communication.