About the Authors
- The PLOS Medicine Editors
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* E-mail: medicine_editors@plos.org
Competing Interests
The authors' individual competing interests are at http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/s/competing-interests-of-the-plos-medicine-editors. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salaries are not linked to the number of papers published in the journal). PS and LP have participated in the development of several reporting guidelines.
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: PS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: PS CG LN TM LP SP. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: PS CG LN TM LP SP. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.