Posted on October 20, 2009 by PLoS Medicine
It’s five years this week since PLoS Medicine‘s inaugural issue. We’ve taken this opportunity to reflect on the past five years and what the future holds, both for medical publishing and the publishing landscape as a whole. Two editorials this year lay out our thoughts in more depth; the April 2009 editorial, A Medical Journal [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2009 by Andrew Hyde
To coincide with the announcement of PLoS Medicine’s revised editorial vision, we commissioned two podcasts in which two members of the PLoS Medicine Editorial Board were interviewed.
In the eight-minute podcast below Bruce Lanphear, Professor of Children’s Environmental Health at Simon Fraser University, discusses how medical journals have become overfocused on drug trials and reliant [...]
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