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“I’ve heard it said that if you want tenure, you’ve got to get an article in Science or get on the cover of Cell,” she said. “If you’re a top scientist, you...
Kirschner said the decision to help doctoral students gain credibility in the field of scientific research has prevented BioMed Central from bringing top of the line content to the journal.
And Hyman agreed that BioMed Central faces an uphill battle in establishing credibility.
Still, the efforts of the Public Library of Science and BioMed Central have raised awareness in the scientific publishing industry about the problems restricted access presents to scientists who lack the funds to have subscriptions to their journal, journals editors said.
And BioMed Centrals founders insist the journal has a future because of its revolutionary approach to publishing, where scientists pay a nominal fee for their article to undergo review and the journal itself makes no profit from the publication of the article.