William J. Pearce is head of the Genito-Urinary & Reproductive Pharmacology section of the Faculty of Pharmacology & Drug Discovery at F1000, and a professor of physiology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He writes in this issue about the inappropriate use of citations in science papers, a subject with which he is very familiar—he published his first peer-reviewed paper 30 years ago, has served on dozens of study sections for the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, and is currently part of the editorial board of five journals. Join the conversation in “Citations: Too Much, or Not Enough?” on page 29.
David Berreby is a freelance science writer who likes to tackle “big” questions such as “The Limits of Understanding” (p. 28). He’s the award-winning author of Us and Them: The Science of Identity, and has written for the New Yorker, The New York Times ...
