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Editorial
. 2013 Aug;10(8):e1001504.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001504. Epub 2013 Aug 27.

Better reporting of scientific studies: why it matters

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Editorial

Better reporting of scientific studies: why it matters

PLOS Medicine Editors. PLoS Med. 2013 Aug.

Abstract

The PLOS Medicine Editors announce the launch of a Reporting Guidelines Collection to coincide with the Seventh International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, to be held September 8–10, 2013, in Chicago.

Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).

References

    1. International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication. Available: http://www.peerreviewcongress.org/index.html. Accessed 17 July 2013.
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