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Editorial

Nature Nanotechnology 3, 633 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.322

Papers about papers

As the scientific literature continues to expand through the growth of existing journals, the launch of new journals, the rise of e-prints, the mushrooming of web-only supplementary information and so on, the number of papers about papers is also increasing. At first these papers tended to appear in specialist journals but, fittingly, they have also started to appear in high-profile journals.