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How might the detrimental effects of current publication processes in scientific journals be mitigated?
Drew MacKellar: Harvard
Posted: May 6, 2015
Topic: Publication Processes
5/4/2015
While journals remain a crucial part of the dissemination and evaluation of research results, I consider the basic paper format to be in need of extensive updating.…Of course, a concise, human-readable summary will always be required, but journals should encourage authors to augment this wherever possible with other media and online tools to make their data easier to grasp as well as reinterpret and build upon.
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