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How to Stir Up Trouble...while Riding a Rollercoaster
This month's editorial, written by Virginia Barbour, who is stepping down as PLOS Medicine's Chief Editor, reflects on the importance of medical journals being disruptive. She highlights some of the papers that have contributed to that disruption and notes some key issues for medical journals to address in the future, including open access and journals’ relationships with the pharmaceutical industry.
Image Credit: Ronald Repolona, Flickr.com
Citation: (2013) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 10(9) September 2013. PLoS Med 10(9): ev10.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v10.i09
Published: September 24, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This month's editorial, written by Virginia Barbour, who is stepping down as PLOS Medicine's Chief Editor, reflects on the importance of medical journals being disruptive. She highlights some of the papers that have contributed to that disruption and notes some key issues for medical journals to address in the future, including open access and journals’ relationships with the pharmaceutical industry.
Image Credit: Image credit: Ronald Repolona, Flickr.com