About the Authors

The PLOS Medicine Editors

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Affiliation The PLOS Medicine Editors are Clare Garvey, Thomas McBride, Linda Nevin, Larry Peiperl, Amy Ross, Paul Simpson, and Richard Turner

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).

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: CG RT. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CG RT LP. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: CG TM LN LP AR PS RT. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.