DEAN TANTINYears of blood, sweat, and tears. The efforts of multiple labs invested. You and your coauthors determine that the work is reasonably complete, so you write it up and send it out.
Only the most naive among us can reasonably hope that’s the end of the journey. Oftentimes, years of serial editorial rejections, reviewer comments, and revisions await. Meanwhile, the next story never has a chance to get off the ground and a grant renewal is derailed. Many of us have been there. But why do the majority of biomedical scientists feel compelled to play this game?
These are strange times for publishing. Given the circumstances, there has never been a worse time to publish one’s science. Yet, at the same time, journals are proliferating. The result is a larger, more uneven playing field than ever before.
I’m no baseball fan, but in honor of the boys of summer I’d like to draw an analogy between the ...
