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      SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. Preprints for the life sciences.

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          Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology

          Scientific publications enable results and ideas to be transmitted throughout the scientific community. The number and type of journal publications also have become the primary criteria used in evaluating career advancement. Our analysis suggests that publication practices have changed considerably in the life sciences over the past thirty years. More experimental data is now required for publication, and the average time required for graduate students to publish their first paper has increased and is approaching the desirable duration of Ph.D. training. Since publication is generally a requirement for career progression, schemes to reduce the time of graduate student and postdoctoral training may be difficult to implement without also considering new mechanisms for accelerating communication of their work. The increasing time to publication also delays potential catalytic effects that ensue when many scientists have access to new information. The time has come for life scientists, funding agencies, and publishers to discuss how to communicate new findings in a way that best serves the interests of the public and the scientific community.
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            Journal
            Science
            Science (New York, N.Y.)
            American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
            1095-9203
            0036-8075
            May 20 2016
            : 352
            : 6288
            Affiliations
            [1 ] Institute of Personalized Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
            [2 ] Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
            [3 ] Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health.
            [4 ] Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University.
            [5 ] Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
            [6 ] Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco.
            [7 ] Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
            [8 ] Department of Biology, McGill University.
            [9 ] Wellcome Trust.
            [10 ] Rockefeller University Press.
            [11 ] Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School.
            [12 ] Yale School of Medicine, Yale University.
            [13 ] Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine of the Skirball Institute, Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine.
            [14 ] European Molecular Biology Organization.
            [15 ] The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
            [16 ] Simons Foundation.
            [17 ] Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
            [18 ] Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
            [19 ] Nature Research Group.
            [20 ] Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University.
            [21 ] Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco. ron.vale@ucsf.edu.
            [22 ] Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
            [23 ] Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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            352/6288/899
            10.1126/science.aaf9133
            27199406
            e592b755-bb80-4fdb-a3cf-0b7a0efd1ae6
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