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PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 10(9) September 2013

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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

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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: Image credit: Ronald Repolona, Flickr.com

https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v10.i09.g001